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This welding program includes information on welding joint design, joint edge shape and preparation. This program then focuses on the array of welding processes, arranging them into two major categories- fusion welding processes and solid-state welding processes. The fusion welding section begins with an examination of the four common groups of fusion processes: arc welding, resistance welding, laser beam welding, and electron beam welding. The arc welding section features the six most common arc welding processes - shielded metal arc welding, submerged arc welding, gas metal arc welding, flux-cored arc welding, gas tungsten arc welding and plasma arc welding.