Laser-Gas Metal Arc (GMA) hybrid welding is fast making the transition from laboratory to production, in industries as diverse as shipbuilding to automobile manufacture. For the past 3 years, our team has striven to both develop a hybrid welding process for steel pipe, and to specify, build, and install a hybrid pipe welding system in a General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard. In March 2007, the syste...

For decades now, Fronius has exerted a significant influence on the progress achieved in welding technology, and is regarded as a global technological leader. In robotic welding too, about 30% of the power sources used worldwide are supplied by Fronius. To continue to play this dominant role in the world market, the company opened a new Research and Development Center in Thalheim (Upper Austria...

Welding of niobium and tantalum materials is currently conducted in vacuum or inert gas chambers, which limits the size of the equipment to be produced. The objective of this study is to investigate the means to make TIG welding on these materials in atmospheric environment and analyse the effect of heat input on the properties of welds. It was found that it is possible to make TIG welds on the...

The aim of this study is to assess the levels of airborne ultrafine particles emitted in welding processes (tungsten inert gas [TIG], metal active gas [MAG] of carbon steel, and friction stir welding [FSW] of aluminum) in terms of deposited area in pulmonary alveolar tract using a nanoparticle surface area monitor (NSAM) analyzer. The obtained results showed the dependence of process parameters...

Abstract The joining of thick-walled components using beam-based techniques is content worldwide research and development activities, but has not yet been established in industry. State the art to weld nickel super alloys currently a TIG narrow-gap welding. present paper focusing on new specific laser beam welding process, so-called Laser Multi-Pass Narrow-Gap (Laser-MPNG). It first explains pr...

This paper describes the relationships between ultra-violet emission, ozone generation and CrVI production in MIG welding which were measured as a function of shield gas flow rate, welding voltage, electrode stick-out and shield gas composition using an automatic welding rig that permitted MIG welding under reproducible conditions. The experimental results are interpreted in terms of the physic...

This study investigates the combined effect of Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) and Metal (MIG) arcs in achieving improved mechanical microstructural properties compared with standalone TIG MIG based on optimum parameters setting for welding processes. Miller machines a maximum capacity 400 A were used as heat source. The welds produced by TIG-MIG, processes characterized via tensile hardness testing, ...