An investigation on bridging larger welding gaps between workpieces occurring in practice due to structural requirements or to defects in weld edge preparation is described. Some characteristic cases from practice where a larger root gap should be bridged or the space between two or three workpieces should be filled with a greater quantity of filler material are described. Submerged-arc welding...

Original scientific paper In present work, thermal transport considering heat radiation by oval heat source shape and heat transfer of molten moving electrode was presented. In present paper, an analytical solution was presented by aggregating temperature increments caused by applying liquid metal and heat radiation of moving electrode. The assumptions for the study were heat source of temperat...

A multi-response optimization problem was developed in search of an optimal parametric combination to yield favorable bead geometry of bead-on-plate weldments produced by submerged arc welding. Taguchi’s L25 orthogonal array design was employed to optimize the results within experimental limits. The objective functions were selected in terms of responses of bead geometry, viz. height of reinfor...

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people work in welding, cutting and brazing. It is estimated that welders compose 1 to 2% of the U.S. working population, including a significant segment of the aging workforce. According to OSHA’s Christine Petitti, the most commonly used welding processes are: 1) Flux-cored arc welding (FCAW). This process uses an arc between a continuous filler metal electrode and th...