This highly illustrated book presents the essential information and
major constituents of laser welding, including laser brazing and
laser-arc hybrid welding. Students, engineers, researchers, scientists,
specialists, professors, consultants, designers, and executives
worldwide will fully grasp the fundamentals, the present state, and the
applications of laser welding. Welding phenomena, formation mechanisms
and preventive procedures of welding defects, and process monitoring and
adaptive control are especially emphasized, because understanding these
aspects of laser welding greatly improves the performance of work and
research and solves many problems in the field. Finally, the book shows
how increasingly widespread use of a variety of materials is bringing
major advances to laser welding.