Methodological Aspects of Welded Joint Quality Assessment

The quality of manufacturing processes largely depends on applying modern design methods and technologies. Much progress has been made in the field of metallurgy and the physics of welding, including the weld pool hydrodynamics, the surface and volumetric forces of different origins, the modeling of the SP crystallization process, and the structural transformation morphology in SWC. Additionally, attempts have been made to use the normalized parameters of fracture mechanics to evaluate the material SU. The above-mentioned solutions have also been given a more specific character by establishing SINTAP procedures and computational welding mechanics (CWM). This study discusses a universal method for welded joint evaluation according to the most significant criteria and relevant descriptive features.