Advances in Brazing: Science, Technology and Applications

Key Features: reviews the advances of brazing processes in joining materials; discusses the fundamentals of brazing and considers specific materials, including super alloys, filler metals, ceramics and intermetallics; brazing of cutting materials and structural applications are also discussed.

Contents: Part 1 Fundamentals of brazing: The wetting process in brazing; Strength and margins of brazed joints; Modeling of the sequence phenomena in brazing. Part 2 Materials used in brazing: Brazing of superalloys and intermetallic alloys; High temperature brazing: Filler metals and processing; Brazing of diamonds and cubic boron nitride; Brazing of oxide, carbide, nitride and composite ceramics; Brazing of nickel, ferrite and titanium-aluminum intermetallics; Brazing of aluminium and aluminium to steel; Controlled atmosphere brazing of aluminum; Active metal brazing of advanced ceramic composites to metallic systems; Brazing of metal and ceramic joints; Brazing of carbon-carbon (C/C) composites to metals. Part 3 Applications of brazing and brazed materials: Brazing of cutting materials; Coating techniques using brazing; Metal-nonmetal brazing for electrical, packaging and structural applications; Glasses and glass ceramics as brazing materials for high temperature applications; Brazing of nickel-based filler metals for pipes and other components in contact with drinking water; Fluxless brazing of aluminium.