Welding under Extreme Conditions

The offshore exploitation of oil and gas resources was one of the first industrial applications of welding carried out in unusual environments. Considerable research and development has since occurred on improving equipment design and energy sources as well as resolving more fundamental problems of electric arc behaviour under hyperbaric or wet conditions. The papers in this work discuss and extend the results of that research to the use of welding in other extreme environments--for example, the maintenance of certain structures in nuclear plants where a direct human presence is often impossible. There are also papers discussing the use of electron beam welding in space for the in-situ servicing of spacecraft structures and the influence of vacuum conditions on the welding process itself.International Institute of Welding Staff is the author of 'Welding under Extreme Conditions', published 1989 under ISBN 9780080378633 and ISBN 0080378633.