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Article: Advanced welding methods to improve shipbuilding technology.(PROCESS TECHNOLOGY)
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- Advanced Materials & Processes
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Advanced welding technology for the U.S. National Shipbuilding Research Program is being studied to improve the integrity of welding in both naval and commercial shipbuilding, as well as improving productivity rates and reducing construction costs by establishing an optimal electrode/flux combination along with single sided submerged arc welding procedures.
The combination of welding technologies being investigated includes equipment with variable balance alternating current waveform control, and tubular metal-cored electrodes. The focus of this research is ship plate blanket construction of panels made by the SAW process. Welds are deposited in a tandem arc ...