INTRODUCTION: Electric arc welding and oxy-fuel gas welding are the commonest welding technologies used in small scale industries in Nigeria. Electric arc welders are exposed to serious health hazards like exposure to welding smoke. Health effects of such exposure include metal fume fever, and increased risk of chronic diseases and cancers. Exposure to welding smoke can be minimized by use of P...

Stud arc welding has become one of the most important unit operations in the mechanical industries. The need to reduce the time from product discovery to market introduction is inevitable. Reducing of standard deviation of tensile strength with desirable tensile strength joint as a performance character was use to illustrate the design procedure. The effects of (welding time, welding current, s...

The demand for liquefied-natural-gas-fueled tanks on ships is growing in accordance with IMO 2020 regulations. use of high manganese steel has increased recently, as this material can be applied at cryogenic service temperatures according to IGF code and economic advantages over other materials. In study, the heat input welding process, which involves one-side submerged arc (SAW) cut wire, inve...

Welding fume is a complex mixture containing ultra-fine particles in the nanometer range. Rather than being in the form of a singular sphere, due to the high particle concentration, welding fume particles agglomerate into long straight chains, branches, or other forms of compact shapes. Understanding the transport and deposition of these nano-agglomerates in human respiratory systems is of grea...

this paper investigates the residual stress fields in the vicinity of weld bead in hsla-65 steel weldments using a neural network. this study consists of two cases: (i) the experimental analysis was carried out the measurements of residual stresses by xrd technique. many different specimens that were subjected to different conditions were studied. the values and distributions of residual stress...

The present paper describes fuzzy logic simulation of shielded metal arc welding (SMAW) process to predict the Quality of weld joint. It describe the quality of weld joint & effect of welding current, voltage and welding speed on tensile strength of shielded metal arc pipe welded mild steel joints. An ERW Mild steel pipe I S 1239 of 6 mm thickness and 150 mm diameter were used as the base mater...

Ultrasonics complex vibrations with twoor three-dimensional vibration locus are effective for various applications. Various high-frequency and complex-vibration systems have been proposed and studied. The applications include ultrasonic direct welding of LSI, semiconductor chips without adhesive or solder, ultrasonic seam welding of thin metal plates, ultrasonic welding of thick metal specimens...

Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW), also known as tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding, is an arc welding process that uses a nonconsumable tungsten electrode to produce the weld. The weld area is protected from atmospheric contamination by a shielding gas (usually an inert gas such as argon), and a filler metal is normally used, though some welds, known as autogenous welds, do not require it. A const...

The use of time-frequency entropy to quantitatively assess the stability of alternating current square wave submerged arc welding process considering the distribution features of arc energy is reported in this paper. Time-frequency entropy is employed to calculate and analyze the current signals under different duty cycle, frequency and welding speed in the submerged arc welding process. It is ...

Quality of welded joint at MAG welding process depends of numbers of influences, like type and thickness of base metal, groove type, welding position etc., but the proper selection of welding parameters is also very important. Due to that, the analysis of weld bead geometry at MAG welding process with regard to weld current, voltage and weld speed (heat input) and the type and shielding gas flo...