The papers and discussion appearing in this volume were presented at a Symposium on Welding held at the second Regional Meeting of the American Society for Testing Materials, Pittsburgh, March 18, 1931, under the auspices of the Pittsburgh District Committee. The technical program was arranged in cooperation with the Pittsburgh Section of the American Welding Society. The papers were designed to present the present status of the welding art with its several applications and to promote discussion on the various types of weld testing. The committee immediately in charge of the technical program consisted of the following: Dean Harvey (Chairman), Materials Engineer, Material and Process Engineering Dept., Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. C. F. Buente, Secretary, Concrete Products Company of America. A. M. Candy, Welding Engineer, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. E. H. Dix, Jr., Metallurgist, Aluminum Research Laboratories, Aluminum Company of America. L. R. Gurley, Editor, Welding, Steel Publications, Inc. F. M. Howell, Engineer of Tests, Aluminum Research Laboratories, Aluminum Company of America. J. O. Leech, Manager, Bureau of Inspection and Tests, Carnegie Steel Co. W. A. Selvig, Chemist, U. S. Bureau of Mines. Jerome Strauss, Chief Research Engineer, Vanadium Corporation of America.
