This is the fourth volume in the well-established series of compendiums devoted to the subject
of weld hot cracking. It contains the papers presented at the 4th International Cracking
Workshop held in Berlin in April 2014. In the context of this workshop the term cracking
refers to hot cracking in the classical and previous sense but also to cold cracking
stress-corrosion cracking and elevated temp. solid-state cracking. A variety of different
cracking subjects are discussed including test standards crack prediction weldability
determination crack mitigation stress states numerical modelling and cracking mechanisms.
Likewise many different alloys were investigated such as aluminum alloys copper-aluminum
dissimilar metal austenitic stainless steel nickel base alloys duplex stainless steel creep
resistant steel and high strength steel.
