Welding Metallurgy and Weldability of Stainless Steels

This is an excellent text and sourcebook for practicing engineers. While not a handbook, this book contains a lot of useful data, however, its primary value is as text that gives general guidance and explains why the alloys behave as they do. The authors of this book are world leaders in the subject matter, and as expected, they have produced a first-rate book. The book begins with three chapters, which concisely describe the metallurgy of stainless steels, followed by five chapters that discus the welding of the different types of stainless steels (i.e., Austenitic, Ferritic, Martensitic, Duplex and Precipitation Hardened stainless steels). The final two chapters discuss the welding of dissimilar steels and weldability testing.

While the book is required reading for Dr. Lippold's class at Ohio State, I have continued to find use for it as a practicing Welding Engineer in industry. There is no better book available for stainless steel welding metallurgy.

For me, this is the best up to date review book on stainless steels and especially about their welding metallurgy and weldability. The metallurgic mechanisms and the effects on weldability are very well explained. A wide range of technical people including students can use and understand the book easily. I have been reading Dr. Kotecki's Q&A part and Lippold's articles in Welding Journal for more than ten years, so have gathered some data from these parts of them also made me appreciate them. I guess there couldn't have been a better book nowadays about weldability of SSs also.

If you only buy ONE book on the welding metallurgy of stainless steels in your life, it has to be this one.Clear, detailed, thorough, comprehensive, well written. There are a relatively large number of typo's that detract a little from the work but the metallurgy more than makes up for it!

The book is very good and makes a very good approach to the welding issues in stainless steels.Arrived on time.

A good book!