Table of Contents

Session 1: Overview, Steel Bonding and Quality Control.- Diffusion Bonding—An Overview.- Ambient-Temperature Creep Failure of Silver-Interlayer Diffusion Bonds between Steel.- Diffusion Bonding by Hot Extrusion of Incoloy 825 and Duplex 2205 to a Low Alloy Steel.- Study of the Microstructure Obtained after Diffusion Bonding Inconel 625 to Low Alloy Steel by Hot Uniaxial Pressing or Hipping.- HIP Diffusion Bonding of Austenitic to Ferritic Steels.- The Control of Diffusion Bonding Quality.- Session 2: Diffusion Bonding of Aluminium Alloys.- Development of Diffusion Bonding Techniques for Al-Li Base Alloy AA8090.- Diffusion Bonding of Superplastic Aluminium Alloys Using a Transient Liquid Phase Interlayer (Zinc).- Influence of Surface Preparation on the Diffusion Welding of High Strength Aluminium Alloys.- Diffusion Bonding of Thin Aluminium Foils.- Laser Surface Modification of 8090 Alloy with Silicon for Diffusion Bonding.- Diffusion Bonding of Al-Li 8090 Alloy.- Session 3: Bonding of High Temperature Materials.- Diffusion Bonding of Ti-6Al-4V Alloy: Metallurgical Aspects and Mechanical Properties.- Resistance Diffusion Bonding of a Titanium Aluminide.- 30 Seconds Solid State Bonding of Metals.- The Diffusion Bonding of Engineering Ceramics to Nickel Based Superalloys by Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIPping).- Diffusion Bonding of Inconel 600 to Alumina.- Interfaces in Metal/Ceramic Diffusion Bonds.- Session 4: General Applications.- The Development of DB/SPF Titanium Technology for Military Aircraft Applications.- The Application of SPF/DB to Dissimilar Metal Joints.- HIP-Diffusion Bonding of ODS-Materials by Use of Plasma Sprayed Encapsulation.- Component Assembly Using HIP Diffusion Bonding.- Diffusion Bonded Windows for Diagnostics of Fusion Plasmas.- Low TemperatureDiffusion Bonding of High Carat Gold Using in Situ Gold-Cadmium Alloys.- A New Aspect of Eutectic Bonding for Gold Soldering.