Welding and joining: Organisations, academia, publishers

The listing of sites here does not imply endorsement by TWI, or that they are the best sources of information. The list is updated and links are checked periodically.

See also - Welding companies and equipment & consumables suppliers

• Adhesives and sealants.com [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Adhesives Design Toolkit [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• American Welding Society [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Asociación Española de Soldadura y Tecnologías de Unión [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• The Association of Welding Distributors [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Australasian Welding Journal. [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• The Belgian Welding Institute (Belgisch Instituut voor Lastechniek) [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• British Compressed Gases Association [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Canadian Welding Association [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• China Weldnet [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• China Welding Association. [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Cooperative Research Centre for Welded Structures [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• CWB Group (Canadian Welding Bureau) [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Czech Welding Society. [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• DVS (Deutscher Verband für Schweißen und verwandte Verfahren, German Welding Society). Includes the Virtual Museum of Joining Technology and DVS TV. [last looked at on 17 August 2009]
  
  
• DVS-Verlag GmbH (Verlag für Schweißen und verwandte Verfahren DVS-Verlag GmbH). Includes information on several magazines: Welding and Cutting; der praktiker; Der Schweisser; Schweißen & Schneiden; Joining Plastics; and Thermal Spray Bulletin [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Edison Welding Institute [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• European Association for Brazing and Soldering [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• European Welding Federation [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Force Technology [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• The Fraunhofer Center for Laser Technology [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Fraunhofer IWS (Institut Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik), Institute for Material and Beam Technology and Fraunhofer Institut Lasertechnik [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• GAWDA online resource for the gases and welding industry [last looked at on 5 November 2009]
  
  
• Gowelding [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• GSI - Gesellschaft für Schweißtechnik International mbH [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• A History of Thermal Joining [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Hobart Institute of Welding Technology [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Institut de Soudure [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Institut für Schweißtechnik und Fügetechnik der RWTH Aachen (Welding Institute, Aachen University, Germany) [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Institute of Rail Welding [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• ISQ, Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Instytut Spawalnictwa, Polish Welding Centre of Excellence [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• International Association 'Welding' (E.O.Paton Electric Welding Institute in Ukraine) [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• The International Institute of Welding See also the UK IIW pages. [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• ISIM - National Research and Development Institute for Welding and Material Testing, Romania. Includes the Technological Transfer Center in Welding CENTA-ISIM. [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Italian Institute of Welding [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Japan Welding Engineering Society [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Japan Welding Society includes Journal of the Japan Welding Society and Quarterly Journal of the Japan Welding Society [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Missouri Welding Institute, Inc. [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• The Navy Joining Center [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• Nederlands Instituut voor Lastechniek the Netherlands Institute of Welding [last looked at on 9 July 2009]
  
  
• New Zealand Welding Centre (Heavy Engineering Research Association), includes Australasian Welding Journal . [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Nigerian Institute of Welding [last looked at on 15 September 2009]
  
  
• The Ohio State University Department IWSE - Industrial & Systems Engineering, Welding Engineering [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Pakistan Welding Institute (PWI) [last looked at on 17 August 2009]
  
  
• Paton Publishing House offers journals from the E O Paton Electric Welding Institute in Kiev, Ukraine including Avtomaticheskaya Svarka (in Russian) and its translation into English as Paton Welding Journal [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Pb-free.com [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• The Resistance Welding Manufacturing Alliance [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Romanian Welding Society [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Russian Welding Society (in Russian) [last looked at on 12 March 2009; not available 17 August 2009]
  
  
• Singapore Welding Society [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• SLV Duisburg Ltd [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• SLV Halle (Schweißtechnische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt Halle GmbH) [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Society for Adhesion and Adhesives [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Soudeur.com [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Southern African Institute of Welding [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Suomen Hitsausteknillinen Yhdistys ry. The Welding Society of Finland [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• SVSXASS Swiss Society for Welding Technology [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Team.Net Shop Talk Web includes a brief Introduction to Welding Processes & Equipment for amateurs. [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• UKWelder.com [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Unified Engineering Inc. has AWS weld symbols [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• University of Waterloo, Canada, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• VUZ, the Welding Research Institute Bratislava [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• The Welding Research Council [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Welding Resources on the Internet [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Welding.com [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Welding.cz [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• welding-advisers.com [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• WeldingMedia.com [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Welding Engineering Research Centre (Cranfield University, UK) [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• WeldingJobs.com [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Welding Research Institute, India [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• The Welding Technology Institute of Australia includes OzWeld, [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Woodhead Publishing [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  
• Zavod za Zavarivanje, Welding Institute in Yugoslavia [last looked at on 16 July 2009]
  
  

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