Industrial Brazing Practice

During 1963-96, Roberts held a number of marketing and technical posts with the three primary supplies of precious metal brazing alloys and other silver-bearing products. Here he commits to paper as much as he can of the detailed technical expertise he has acquired about the industrial application of brazing as a preferred joining technique. Though there are many books on specific aspects, he says, this may be the only one on the overall technique. His topics include designing for brazing, fuels gasses and burners, induction and resistance brazing, brazing with filler material pastes, brazing aluminum, and the methodology of process auditing. Also available in electronic form. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Philip Roberts owns and operates Delphi Brazing Consultants. He joined Johnson Matthey and Co. Ltd in 1963; so began his 50-year association with the promotion of the principles of "best practice" brazing. During the next 30 years, he occupied a number of marketing and technical posts with the three (then) primary suppliers of precious metal brazing alloys and other silver-bearing products, namely Johnson Matthey, Engelhard Industries, and Degussa AG. In 1996, he created Delphi Brazing Consultants. He is chairman of BSI WEE/19 and CEN/TC121- SC8—involved with British and European Standards, respectively, for technical matters related to all facets of the brazing process. Since 1998, he has been chairman of the European Association for Brazing and Soldering and, since 2006, he has been the principle UK expert on ISO/ TC44-WG3, a group of international brazing specialists who are responsible for the generation and/or revision of new international brazing standards.