Welding Equipment and Supplies Reference Materials

Description: Our engineers view every aspect of performance as "our job" until a satisfactory result is achieved. ...

Description: ...how do I calculate the pressure angle of this gear? And how do I design the mating gear (external splined gear) for this part? ...

Description: Involute Splines: Types, Design Considerations, Materials, and Applications ...

Description: Why has robotic soldering become a more popular option in a wide range of applications? For the same reasons that manufacturing facilities always embrace automated processes â€" improved consistency, ...

Description: Why are Epilog Laser machines built with air-cooled metal laser tubes? A rack of epilog laser co2 metal laser tubes When you're looking to purchase a CO2 laser machine, there are a number of points to ...

Description: Welding curtains are a rounded solution to many of the issues presented by metal joinery procedures, offering protection to process bystanders from the sparks and vibrant light generated as a ...

Description: MICRO AIR XA23 (2' x 3') Self-contained Downdraft Tables Provide a Unique Solution for Vocational Welding Schools ...

Description: For a long time, specialist mechanical engineers welded together steel to make their frames. ...

Description: Welding is the process of joining two materials together (usually metals) to make them act as a single piece. It works by melting the base metal, and a filler material is often added to this molten ...

Description: The relatively new process of laser welding yields benefits for the creation of various parts and pieces for diverse industries including aerospace, automotive, medical and general retail ...

Description: The majority of aluminum base alloys can be successfully arc welded without cracking related problems, however, using the most appropriate filler alloy and conducting the welding operation with an ...

Description: Oxy-fuel cutting is a chemical reaction between pure oxygen and steel to form iron oxide. It can be described as rapid, controlled rusting. Preheat flames are used to raise the surface or edge of the ...

Description: Many characteristics of a weld can be evaluated during welding inspection, some relating to the welds size, and others relating to the presence of weld discontinuities. The size of a weld can be ...

Description: Choose One-Piece or Two-Piece Nozzle: Acetylene - one-piece nozzle always. Other Fuel Gases - two-piece nozzle provides most efficient operation for normal cutting. One-piece nozzle extends life where ...

Description: Recently commenced is a project that will see Gullco welding automation used to produce two UK Navy Air Craft carriers in the coming months. This shipyard in Cammell Laird, Merseyside has selected ...

Description: The project under way at Langfields involves welding large sections of stainless steel pipe in segmented bends. The internal diameter of the vessel is 1900mm with circumferential seams of 90 and 135 ...

Description: The Govan / Scotstoun Shipyard were faced with building new vessels with more stringent quality standards as well as a tighter deadline. These problems of having to decrease distortion levels as well ...

Description: Irish Cement has been producing cement for over 60 years and in order to maintain their competitive advantage they must have their facility in precise working condition. This is why when they were ...

Description: The Queensland company IMES has begun using a Plasma Transfer Arc Welding (PTAW) process in the repair of their mining equipment. Through the use of Gullco International Pty Limited's KAT® ...

Description: In the past, CO2 and Nd: YAG lasers dominated the marking, cutting and welding of industrial tooling and manufactured goods. These laser types were the first to be brought to the marketplace and they ...

Description: First, let's quickly address the basics of a laser. As you may know, laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. On a very basic level, a laser amplifies light by ...

Description: Laser Marking and Engraving is a widely expanding marketplace as users have seen the benefits of using lasers over conventional methods like Chemical/Acid Etching for direct part marking to simple ...

Description: Laser Marking and Engraving is a widely expanding marketplace as users have seen the benefits of using lasers over conventional methods like Chemical/Acid Etching for direct part marking to simple ...

Description: Laser Marking Systems are rapidly becoming the technology of choice for a vast majority of marking applications. Laser Markers provide the ability to mark without the need of any consumables like ink, ...

Description: The Tampen Link project in the North Sea underlines the amazing versatility of induction heating. In this case, EFD Induction expertise is helping weld a branch pipe onto a 20' main high-pressure gas ...

Description: When producing welded pipes according to API specification or similar, the weld and the heat affected zone (HAZ) have to be normalized. EFD Induction has three solutions. ...

Description: Temperature distributions in the cross-section of the weld point are calculated through two-dimensional coupled electromagnetic and thermal FEM analyses. A specific development, using FLUX2D, has been ...

Description: Induction welding of tube and pipe with increased wall thickness presents manufacturers with new challenges regarding production rates and quality. In a medium- and thick-wall tube the heat-affected ...

Description: This paper presents a new HF-converter for induction heating. The converter has a diode rectifier and automatic matching. It uses a patented timesharing principle for high frequency use of IGBTs (ref. ...

Description: In the production of welded pipes according to API standards, a normalization of the weld and heat affected zone (HAZ) is required. The weld of thick-walled tubes shows an hour-glass shaped HAZ caused ...

Description: The heat affected zone (HAZ) in a medium- and thick-wall tube is shaped like an hourglass. This can give overheated corners and a cold center in the tube wall, which limits weld speed. A parameter ...

Description: EFD Induction has unveiled a new control system for normalizing pipe weld seams to API standards. Per H. Ødesneltvedt, one of the R&D engineers involved in the project, explains some of the system's ...