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List of contents
Plasma Brazing. Adhesive Bonding. Adhesive Proteins from Mussels. Friction Stir Welding. Friction Stir Welding: Aerospace Aluminum Applications. Friction Stir Welding. Nuclear Applications Using Friction Stir Welding. Friction Stir Spot Welding. Properties of Materials from Immersed Friction Stir Welding. Friction Stir Welding and Related Processes. Laser and Laser Processing. Magnetic Pulse Welding. Casting. Coatings (Thermal Spray Processes). Ballistic Protection for Ground Vehicles, Human Personnel, and Habitats. New Innovative Heat Treating Processes. Resin Transfer Molding and Associated Closed Molding and Infusion Processes. Vacuum-Assisted Resin Transfer Molding. VARTM Processing. Modeling of Infusion-Based Processes for Polymer Composites. Low Melt Viscosity Imide Resins for Resin Transfer Molding. Environment and Safety.
About the author
Mel Schwartz has degrees in metallurgy and engineering management and has studied law, metallurgical engineering, and education. His professional experience extends over 51 years serving as a metallurgist in the U.S. Bureau of Mines; metallurgist and producibility engineer, U.S. Chemical Corps; technical manufacturing manager, chief R&D Lab, research manufacturing engineering, and senior staff engineer, Martin-Marietta Corporation for 16 years; program director, manager and director of manufacturing for R&D, and chief metals researcher, Rohr Corp for 8 years; staff engineer and specification specialist, chief metals and metals processes, and manager of manufacturing technology, Sikorsky Aircraft for 21 years. While retired Mel has been a consultant for many industrial and commercial companies including Intel and Foster Wheeler, and was former editor for SAMPE Journal of Advanced Materials. Mel’s professional awards and honors include: Inventor Achievement Awards and Inventor of the Year at Martin-Marietta; C. Adams Award & Lecture and R.D. Thomas Memorial Award from AWS; first recipient of the G. Lubin Award and an elected Fellow from SAMPE; an elected Fellow and Engineer of the Year in CT from ASM; and Jud Hall Award from SME.
