Mechanical Effects of Welding

The field of welding is an area which includes a large num-ber of scientific disciplines, such as materials science,solid mechanics, thermal science and mechanical engineeringdesign and production engineering. The intention of the Sym-posium was to cover the direct mechanical effects of weldingand their influence on the in-service behaviour of weldedstructures. The mechanical effects of welding is a very ap-propriate theme for an IUTAM Symposium. Progress in thisfield requires close interaction between researchers in se-veral disciplines. This is reflected in the topics covered.These topics are: Calculations of temperatures, strains andstresses; Residual stresses and residual deformations; Mea-surements of residual strains and stresses; effects of de-fects and residual stresses on fracture and fatigue; effectsof residual stresses on creep deformation; effects of resi-dual deformations and residual stresses on buckling.