Articles and reports on: friction stir welding, timber welding, protective coating for welding equipment, welds adjacent to a superduplex pipe assembly and cyclic pressure testing. Includes job knowledge on fatigue testing

Describes articles on nuclear waste encapsulation processes; coating comparisons for earthmoving vehicles; quality standard award to TWI Technology Centre (Wales) Ltd; LNG contract for Plant Integrity; new diffusion bonding equipment; Boeiong training for Richard Freeman; event on Forensic Engineering; TWI staff input to publications; opeining of TWI Brasil Ltda; Reduction of process variation in lead-free soldering; and Job Knowledge 73: Fatigue testing.

Describes TWI's new facilities for fatigue testing large pipeline sections and welding of plastics, advice on material selection and legislation concerning electromagnetic fields, an application for FSW, and training on resistance welding. Includes Job Knowledge on Compact Tension and J Integral fracture testing

friction stir welded trains; TWI's expanded microanalysis capability; novel thermal insulation material; TWI's new environmental test complex; Welding Co-ordinator software, TWI's Aerospace Industry Panel; Welding Institute of Malaysia; new TWI Industry Panel; CTOD testing

Includes: High pressure hydrogen test service launched at TWI; CrackFirst - a new sensor system to assist in structural health monitoring; The modelling option... lead-free soldering circuitry faces a reliability onceover; SkillWELD winner goes West; Core research pushes the boundary; New team for industry support; A tribute to Trevor; Upgraded P-scan ultrasonic equipment; Job Knowledge 75 - Hardness testing part 2; and news in brief of TWI.

Includes: Enhanced sealing methods for curtain airbags; Robotic arc welding; Thermal spraying for novel bearing design; Teething troubles... dental engineers given a helping hand; Making the change to lead-free soldering; Hardness Testing Part 1 - Job Knowledge for Welders; new TWI members; and news of events.

Includes: TWI work with European Space Agency; Plant Integrity news; use of ball indentation mechanical testing; bend testing Job Knowledge for Welders; design optimisation of wall-tie; developments on friction stir welding; 5th Friction Stir Welding Symposium; new TWI members; and news of events

Includes: TWI's orbital TIG welding equipment ; Sterling 30M National Composites Network; finite element model of ultrasonic testing; principles and practice of impact testing; assessing sub-contractor bids for penstock construction; improved access to library archive; news of events

Describes the contents of the July - August 2004 Connect magazine.

This issue covers TWI's electronics and sensors packaging expertise and new facility at Port Talbot; the execution of bond strength trials on HVOF coatings and the opening a new fume laboratory; and job knowledge on tensile testing.

This issue covers TWI's expertise in flip chip bonding and manufacturing simulation, a technique for joining of composites to metal, news of new projects, and job knowledge about tensile testing

Includes news of a survey on fuel cells and improvements to web searching of the Weldasearch database; reports of help to companies with service life of nickel superalloy gas turbines, integrity of HVOF sprayed coatings, review of the properties of high alloy steels and Ni alloys; and Job Knowledge on weld shape defects