Resistance welding: Fundamentals and applications

Resistance Welding: Fundamentals and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-432

  Zhang, Hongyan ^a   Senkara, Jacek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

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