Design, fabrication and economy of welded structures

TLDR: The International Institute of Welding (IIW) and many other sponsors helped organizers to collect these valuable studies, which provide an important reference for civil and mechanical engineers, architects, design-ers and fabricators, as well as managers in a rangeof industries including building, transport, materialshandling, shipbuilding, aircraft, chemical and offshoreengineering.

Abstract: structural optimization, fatigue design, frames, platedstructures, residual welding stresses and distortions,static stresses in welded connections, hollow sections,welding technology, applications, applied mechanics.Authors are experts from 20 countries, ensuring awide spectrum and importance of the themes covered.The International Institute of Welding (IIW) andmany other sponsors helped organizers to collect thesevaluable studies, which provide an important referencefor civil and mechanical engineers, architects, design-ers and fabricators, as well as managers in a rangeof industries including building, transport, materialshandling, shipbuilding, aircraft, chemical and offshoreengineering.Most of the work relate to structural optimization,in which the structural safety and fitness for productionare guaranteed by fulfilling the design and fabricationconstraints and the economy is achieved by minimiza-tion of a cost function. Welding technology and stressesarising from welded connections represent a significantpart of the remaining papers. The book includes studieson structural analysis and design concerning fracture,instability, large deformations, fatigue, earthquake andfire loading.Papers can help the work of engineers, designers,producers, managers and researchers in designing andproducing competitive welded structures.