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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements of figures and tables | |
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| Health and safety | |
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| Health, safety and the law | |
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| Employers' responsibilities | |
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| Employees' responsibilities | |
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| Electrical hazards | |
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| Fire fighting | |
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| Fire precautions and prevention | |
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| Accidents | |
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| First aid | |
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| Personal protection | |
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| Hazards in the workplace | |
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| Manual lifting | |
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| Mechanical lifting equipment | |
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| Use of lifting equipment | |
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| Accessories for lifting gear | |
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| Useful knots for fibre ropes | |
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| Inspection (lifting equipment) | |
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| Oxy-acetylene welding | |
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| Arc-welding equipment (mains operated) | |
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| Working on site | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Personal development | |
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| Basic relationships | |
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| Relationship with managers, supervisors and instructors | |
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| Attitude and behaviour | |
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| Implementing company policy | |
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| Creating and maintaining effective working relationships with other people | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Engineering materials and heat treatment | |
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| States of matter | |
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| Properties of materials | |
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| Classification of materials | |
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| Ferrous metals (plain carbon steels) | |
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| Ferrous metals (alloy steels) | |
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| Ferrous metals (cast irons) | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Non-ferrous metals and alloys | |
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| The identification of metals | |
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| Non-metals (natural) | |
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| Non-metals (synthetic) | |
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| Forms of supply | |
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| Heat treatment processes (introduction) | |
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| Heat treatment processes (safety) | |
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| The heat treatment of plain carbon steels | |
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| The heat treatment of non-ferrous metals and alloys | |
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| Heat-treatment furnaces | |
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| Temperature measurement | |
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| Atmosphere control | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Using and communicating technical information | |
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| Selection of information sources | |
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| Interpretation of information (graphical) | |
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| Interpretation of information (tables, charts and schedules) | |
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| Evaluating engineering information | |
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| Recording and processing engineering information | |
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| Methods of record keeping | |
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| Communications (miscellaneous) | |
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| Engineering drawing (introduction) | |
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| First angle orthographic drawing | |
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| Third angle orthographic drawing | |
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| Conventions | |
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| Redundant views | |
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| Dimensioning | |
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| Welding symbols | |
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| The development of surfaces | |
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| Interpenetration | |
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| Pictorial views | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Measuring and marking out | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Linear measurement | |
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| Angular measurement | |
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| Correct use of measuring equipment | |
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| Marking out equipment (tools for making lines) | |
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| Marking out equipment (tools for providing guidance) | |
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| Marking out equipment (tools for providing support) | |
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| Techniques for marking out | |
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| The need for templates | |
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| The manufacture of templates | |
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| The use of templates | |
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| Condition and care of equipment | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Material removal | |
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| Cutting tool principles | |
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| The application of basic cutting tool angles to hand tools | |
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| Drilling, drilling machines and routing | |
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| Shearing sheet metal | |
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| Portable power tools | |
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| Blanking (stamping and piercing) | |
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| Flame cutting | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Sheet and plate metalwork | |
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| Sheet and plate metalwork (introduction) | |
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| Roll-bending sheet metal and plate | |
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| Flow forming sheet metal | |
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| The principles of metal spinning | |
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| Swaging sheet metal | |
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| Basic fabrication procedures | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Structural steelwork and pipework | |
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| Rolled steel sections | |
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| Typical structural steel connections and assemblies | |
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| Trusses and lattice frames | |
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| Web stiffeners | |
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| Fabricated lightweight beams | |
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| Castellated beams | |
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| Pipework (setting out bends) | |
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| Pipe bending | |
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| Pipe fitting | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Joining processes (mechanical connections) | |
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| Mechanical connections (threaded) | |
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| Hand reamers and reaming | |
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| Riveted joints | |
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| Pop Diveting | |
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| Self secured joints | |
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| Folding and jointing allowance | |
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| The Pittsburgh lock | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Joining processes (soldering, brazing and braze-welding) | |
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| Soft soldering | |
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| Soft-soldered joints using lead-free solders | |
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| Hard soldering (brazing) | |
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| Aluminium brazing | |
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| Types of brazed joints | |
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| Braze-welding | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Joining processes (welding) | |
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| Fusion welding | |
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| Oxy-acetylene welding | |
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| Manual metal-arc welding | |
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| Workshop testing of welds | |
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| Miscellaneous fusion welding processes | |
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| Workholding devices for fusion welding | |
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| Resistance welding | |
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| Further welding processes | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Composite fabrication processes and adhesive bonding | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Lamination | |
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| Fibre reinforcement | |
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| Particle reinforcement | |
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| The manipulation and fabrication of polymers (plastics) | |
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| Adhesive bonding | |
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| Adhesive bonding of metals | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Appendix A | |
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| Index | |