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Provides an unusually complete and readable compilation of the primary and secondary options for joining conventional materials in non-conventional ways. Provides unique coverage of adhesive bonding using both organic and inorganic adhesives, cements and mortars. Focuses on materials issues without ignoring issues related to joint design, production processing, quality assurance, process economics, and joining performance in service.Joining of advanced materials is a unique treatment of joining of both conventional and advanced metals andalloys, intermetallics, ceramics, glasses, polymers, and composites with polymeric, metallic, ceramic, intermetallic and carbon matrices in similar and dissimilar combinations. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students in engineering in addition to practicing engineers, this book treats in detail mechanical joining with conventional and advanced fasteners or integral design features, adhesive bonding, fusion and non-fusion welding, brazing, soldering, thermal spraying, and synergistic combinations of weld-bonding, weld-brazing, rivet-bonding. In addition, the book addresses materials issues, joint design, production processing, quality assurance, process economics, and joint performance in service.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction to Joining
• Mechanical Fastening
• Mechanical Fasteners and Joining Methods
• Adhesive Bonding
• Adhesives and the Bonding Process
• Welding as a Process
• The Metallurgy of Welding
• Brazing
• Soldering
• Other Joining Processes
• Joining of Metals
• Alloys, and Intermetallics
• Joining of Ceramics and of Glasses
• Joining of Polymers
• Joining Composite Materials
• Joining Dissimilar Material Combinations

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Messler writes in response to a definite need in materials engineering; although this reviewer would have preferred a different distribution of emphases placed on the various topics covered, he certainly welcomes its publication. Messler's writing spans a very wide area of technology, precluding in-depth treatment of the various pertinent topics. It is a comprehensive source of information in joining both conventional and advanced materials and will prove very helpful to senior undergraduate and graduate students in engineering, as well as faculty and practicing engineers. The first ten chapters review joining processes. Further chapters review mechanical fastening, mechanical fasteners and joining methods, adhesive bonding, adhesives and bonding processes, welding and its metallurgy, brazing and soldering, as well as other joining processes, such as thermal spraying, and hybrid joining and welding processes. Four more chapters focus on joining of specific materials, such as metals, alloys, intermetallics, ceramics, glasses, polymers, composite materials, and combinations of dissimilar materials. Each chapter is followed by an appropriate summary and a list of practice questions and problems, as well as a list of references. Well written, with good quality illustrations. Heartily recommended. Community college; pre-professional; advanced undergraduate through professional. T. Z. Kattamis; University of Connecticut