Science and Technology of Welding and Joining, Vol. 27, No. 4, ready to read

Including a perspective on welding technology challenges in the nuclear sector, high-speed friction stir welding in light weight battery trays for the EV industry and wire arc additive manufacturing of stainless steel with active heat management.

This issue contains the following articles, which are available to members via My IOM3.

An integrated approach for numerically predicting the failure of resistance spot welds

Hui Wang, Tadashi Kasuya, Takaaki Kondo & Junya Inoue

Pages: 229-237

DOI: 10.1080/13621718.2022.2045064

Effect of low heat-input double-pulse gas metal arc welding on weld formation and microstructure of 6061 aluminium alloy

Xiaoyan Yu, Jiaxiang Xue, Qingkai Shen, Zehong Zheng & Ning Ou

Pages: 238-249

DOI: 10.1080/13621718.2022.2045117

High-speed friction stir welding in light weight battery trays for the EV industry

Vivek Patel, Jeroen De Backer, Henrik Hindsefelt, Mattias Igestrand, Saeed Azimi, Joel Andersson & Jörgen Säll

Pages: 250-255

DOI: 10.1080/13621718.2022.2045121

High-power wire arc additive manufacturing of stainless steel with active heat management

Jinwei Long, Meng Wang, Wenyong Zhao, Xujing Zhang, Yanhong Wei & Wenmin Ou

Pages: 256-264

DOI: 10.1080/13621718.2022.2045127

Test for stress relief cracking susceptibility in creep resistant chromium-molybdenum steels

Conner Sarich, Boian Alexandrov, Avraham Benatar & Jorge Penso

Pages: 265-281

DOI: 10.1080/13621718.2022.2050133

Role of Nickel-141 in mitigating carbon migration and improving impact properties of thermally aged dissimilar welded joint repairs

Mohamed Attalla, Sherif Kandil, Mohamed Abdel-Hady Gepreel & M. A. Daha

Pages: 282-291

DOI: 10.1080/13621718.2022.2051398

Monitoring of resistance spot welding expulsion based on machine learning

Lei Zhou, Tianyi Zhang, Zhongdian Zhang, Zhenglong Lei & Shiliang Zhu

Pages: 292-300

DOI: 10.1080/13621718.2022.2051408

Solidification cracking test of aluminium alloy 5052

Tayfun Soysal & Sindo Kou

Pages: 301-308

DOI: 10.1080/13621718.2022.2051410

A perspective on welding technology challenges in the nuclear sector

J. A. Francis

Pages: 309-317

DOI: 10.1080/13621718.2022.2047407