Advanced Welding Processes: Technologies and Process Control

Acknowledgements
I would like to acknowledge the continued help, advice, encouragement and
goading which have been generously provided by many friends and colleagues
in the welding industry around the world, also my students, who have taught
me much and whose work is reported widely in the following pages.
Last, but by no means least, I would like to thank my long-suffering family
for their forbearance during the protracted gestation of this work.
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