Weldasearch® - the materials joining database

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Weldasearch has the answers

Whether you want a practical article on how to apply a welding process, or detailed information on research into the background of a particular subject, you'll find the answer in Weldasearch. Produced by TWI Information Services, Weldasearch is a database of short abstracts of over 200,000 articles on welding, joining and allied technologies ( sample abstracts). Covering metals, plastics and ceramics, Weldasearch aims to be a comprehensive record of appropriate world-wide literature published since 1968.

Source material includes journals, conference proceedings, books, patents, standards and theses. List of core journals abstracted by Weldasearch.

Comprehensive coverage includes

welding, brazing & soldering, microjoining, diffusion bonding, thermal cutting, surfacing & hardfacing, thermal spraying

in relation to ....

aerospace, automotive, electronics, shipbuilding and power generation industries; fabrication of bridges, pipelines, offshore structures & pressure vessels, process plant

looking at.....

robotics, automation, repair & maintenance, inspection, quality control, non-destructive testing, fatigue and fracture, corrosion, metallurgy and materials science, health & safety.

The Weldasearch database can be searched here on JoinIT. You can also use it to set up monthly alerts on subjects of interest to you.

Once you've done your search, you can use TWI's Document Delivery Service to obtain photocopies of items or borrow publications from the Library. Please be aware that there are restrictions on the use of this service.

Weldasearch is also accessible through online hosts.

Alternatively use the expertise of the Information services staff at TWI to search the database for you.

You may wish to buy the monthly abstract journal, Welding Abstracts, giving details of the month's input to Weldasearch, organised by subject

The full database is available to run within your company and search for yourself.

Further information on prices is available.

For more information

Please contact Weldasearch Services, TWI, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, CB21 6AL (previously CB1 6AL), UK
Phone: +44 (0)1223 899000
Fax: +44 (0)1223 892588
E-mail: weldasearch@twi.co.uk