CONTENTS

Plenary Papers for International Conference on Welding and Related Technologies into the Third Millennium

• Glorious Jubilee ...     2
• Paton B.E. Welding and related technologies for medical applications...   11
• Gorynin I.V. and Iliin A.V. Theoretical and experimental investigations of brittle fracture resistance of metal of welded structures for the Arctic shelf ... 20
• Smallbone С. Improving the global quality of life through optimum use of welding technology... 25
• Middeldorf K. and von Hofe D. Trends in joining technology ...    33
• Fujita Yu., Nakanishi Y. and Yurioka N. Advanced welding technologies in recent industries in Japan (Review) ...    40
• Alyoshin N.P. Modern non-destructive testing means — main tool for structure condition evaluation ...    46
• Pokhodnya I.K. Metallurgy of arc welding of structural steels and welding consumables... 54
• Kablov E.N. and Lukin V.I. Intermetallics based on titanium and nickel for advanced engineering products ...    65
• Xiao-Hong Li, Wei Mao, Hua-Ping Xiong, Shao-Oing Guo and Hong Yuan Advanced joining technologies of advanced aeronautical materials in China ... 71
• Pilarczyk J., Banasik M., Dworak J. and Stano S. Laser techniques in modern welding technology. Research and applications ...    75
• Scotti A. Prospects of welding research development in Latin America countries on the example of Brazil... 79
• Dilthey U. Welding and joining — key technologies for the third millennium ... 86
• Lysak V.I. and Kuzmin S.V. Deformation-energy aspects and practical applications of explosion welding process... 92
• Dehelean D., Cojocaru R., Radu B. and Safta V. Monitoring the friction stir welding process of aluminum and magnesium alloys ...    99
• Gorbach V.D. and Nikiforov N.I. Development of automatic thermal cutting processes in shipbuilding, metallurgical and mechanical engineering enterprises... 103
• Kuchuk-Yatsenko S.I., Didkovsky A.V. and Shvets V.I. Technology and equipment for flash-butt welding of high-strength rails ...  111
• Beloev M. Modern tendencies in the erection-welding works...  121
• Herold H. New aspects in weldability research — prerequisites for technology and quality assurance in the welding process ...  125
• Panasyuk V.V. Application of fracture mechanics methods for assessment of strength of welded structures... 131
• Mayr P. and Cerjak H. New developments to overcome cold cracking in welded martensitic creep-resistant steels ...  136
• von Hofe D. What is new with the ISO standard 3834:2005? ...  141
• Movchan B.A. Mechanical dimensional effects in two-phase inorganic materials... 145
• Tsvetkov Yu.V. and Samokhin A.V. Plasma nanopowder metallurgy ...  149
• Jardy A. and Ablitzer D. Two examples of mathematical modelling in the field of special electrometallurgy: remelting processes and metal nitriding  153
• Okamoto Y., Gillner A., Olowinsky A., Gedicke J. and Uno Y. Micro-welding of stainless steel foil by high-speed laser scanning ...  158
• Wu L., Li H.C., Gao H.M. and Zhang G.J. Welding telerobotic system applying laser vision sensing and graphics simulation ...  163
• Lobanov L.M. and Pivtorak V.A. Diagnostics of structures using methods of electron shearography and speckle-interferometry... 171
• S. Keitel and C. Ahrens Education and training in welding and testing of materials... 179
• Zubchenko A.S. Corrosion cracking of chromium-nickel steels in high-parameter water ...  183
• Kriyosheev P.I., Slyusarenko Yu.S. and Lyubchenko I.G. Scientific-technical problems in the field of life assurance of building structures ...  188
• Yushchenko K.A., Zadery B.A., Savchenko V.S., Zvyagintseva A.V., Gakh I.S. and Karasevskaya O.P. Welding and cladding of heat-resistant nickel alloys with single-crystal structure ...  191