Special issue: Induction heating and hardening and welding

International Journal of Materials and Product Technology 29(1/2/3/4) 2007 is a special issue: Induction heating and hardening and welding.

Article titles:
* Overview of residual stresses after induction surface hardening
* Subject-oriented assessment of numerical simulation techniques for induction heating applications
* Induction heating processes modelling: optimisation procedure and parallel computing
* Liquid metal induction heating modelling for cold crucible applications
* Numerical simulation of superficial induction hardening process
* Simulation of induction hardening of flat surfaces of moving massive elements
* Numerical simulation of regimes of induction heating and cooling in view of phase transformations and residual stresses for superficial high intensive hardening of details
* 'Transportation' problem of time-optimal heating
* Optimisation of electric field uniformity in microwave heating systems by means of multi-feeding and genetic algorithms
* Application of a coupled electromagnetic-thermal model for 2D analysis of thermal runawayP. * A new predictive neural architecture for modelling electric field patterns in microwave-heating processes
* Input and output control of steel intended for induction surface hardening
* Influence of induction surface heating and quenching on residual stress profiles, followed by grinding
* Fuzzy logic based quality monitoring in short-circuit gas metal arc welding
* Optimisation of welding parameters in pulsed MIG/MAG welding with width-controlled sine-wave current pulses. Part 1: Determination of a general synergic equation and a normalised parametric diagram with a defined parametric welding range
* Optimisation of welding parameters in pulsed MIG/MAG welding with width-controlled sine-wave current pulses. Part 2: Determination of an optimum material transfer through the arc and a control method
* Influence of the type of workpiece adjustment and energy input on the quality of a resistance projection weld
* The effect of small flaws on the fatigue strength of HAZ at the weld toe
* New findings in welding of structural steels
* Alloy fluxes for surfacing
* Machining parameters selection for varying surface in EDM