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The Friction Welding Advantage
of different materials. Conclusion Friction welding has been successfully used in many industries. Applications include pump, agricultural and construction equipment; electric motors; and the automotive, drilling, marine and printing industries - Fig. 6. The process can provide increased design flexibility
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Welding with light
Laser-transmission welding rapidly joins thermoplastic parts without vibration or excess heat. By Val A. Kagan Robert Bray Welded assemblies made from fiberglass-filled and unfilled nylon 6 thermoplastic serve in a variety of automotive under-the-hood applications including intake manifolds, air
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Causing a stir in welding
research and technology organization, and is used in automotive, aircraft, electrical, and aerospace industries. The process transforms metals from a solid state into a "plasticlike" state and then mechanically stirs the materials together under pressure to form a welded joint. Friction stir welding
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The Friction Welding Advantage in Society of Manufacturing Engineers (.pdf)
applications. The process is well-known in automotive , truck, and heavy-equipment circles, where almost every axle or driveshaft has some friction-welded component. Yet practioners such as Joel Donohue, general manager of American Friction Welding (AFW), a full-service job shop in Brookfield, WI, describes
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Saving Fuel with Environmentally Friendly Welding of Liquid Vapor Separators Using Lasers
the contact pressure is also applied. This system. Leister's NOVOLAS Basic AT with GLOBO optics into an ensures that the lens rolls almost friction-free over the. individual workstation solution corresponding to international. surface, thereby welding the component perfectly both. standards
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The weak link in reinforced nylons
, in this case, is confined to the component interface or weld line. Heat for the process comes from friction (linear or orbital vibration, spin, or ultrasonic), contact with a hot plate, or laser light. Infrared-laser transmission welding is relatively new but expected to grow rapidly, whereas other
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FE Update: How to clean up dirty CAD models
group of problems in which geometries are difficult to mesh. Estimates from the automotive industry suggest that as much as 80% of a typical CAE simulation goes to generating the computational model, with most of that time spent in surface preparation and repair. A good example of dirty CAD
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Hard face for soft alloys
An ecofriendly surface treatment improves thermal, wear, and corrosion resistance of light metals enough to let them replace steel in automotive uses. Magnesium racing wheels are being coated using the proprietary plasma electrolytic oxidation process at Keronite International's largest facility