1 Production of Iron and Steel 1 2 Testing materials and the weld Joint 56 3 Alloys and Phase Diagrams 82 4 Iron – Carbon Diagrams 103 5 Heat treatment of Base Materials and Welded 110 Joints 6 Structure of the welded Joint 120 7 Plane carbon and carbon Manganese Steels 143 8 Fine Grained Steels 168 9 Thermomechanically Controlled Process 181 10 Cracking Phenomena in Welded Joints 196 11 Application of structural and High strength Steels 218 12 Low Alloy Steels for Cryogenic Applications 233 13 Low Alloy Creep Resistant Steels 245 14 High Alloyed (Stainless) Steels 256 15 Aluminium and Aluminium Alloys 298