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Friday, March 24th, 2006
Nickel alloys can be joined reliably by all types of welding processes or methods, with the exception of forge welding and oxyacetylene welding. The wrought nickel alloys can be welded under conditions similar to those used to weld austenitic stainless steels. Cast nickel alloys, particularly those ...
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Friday, March 24th, 2006
Many existing methods of producing copper base alloy castings may be broadly subdivided into six separate headings as follows.
1. Sand Casting and CO2 Process
The conventional floor molding and bench molding methods of producing castings using either strickle or loose patterns is still very widely practiced in the copper-base alloy casting ...
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Friday, March 24th, 2006
Copper and copper alloys offer a unique combination of material properties that makes them advantageous for many manufacturing environments. They are widely used because of their excellent electrical and thermal conductivities, outstanding resistance to corrosion, ease of fabrication, and good strength and fatigue resistance. Other useful characteristics include spark resistance, ...
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Friday, March 24th, 2006
Although the welding techniques employed for commercially pure titanium are also applicable to many titanium alloys, extra attention to ensure adequate shielding is necessary because these materials are less tolerant of contamination. As fabricators are largely concerned with welding sheet, the information given deals mainly with this form of material, ...
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Friday, March 24th, 2006
Commercially pure titanium and most of titanium alloys can be welded by procedures and equipment used in welding austenitic stainless steel and aluminum. Because of the high reactivity of titanium and titanium alloys at temperatures above 550°C, additional precautions must be applied to shield the weldment from contact with air. ...
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Friday, March 24th, 2006
Aluminum and its alloys can be joined by more methods than any other metal, but aluminum has several chemical and physical properties that need to be understood when using the various joining processes.
The specific properties that affect welding are its oxide characteristics, its thermal, electrical, and nonmagnetic ...
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Friday, March 24th, 2006
Non-heat-treatable aluminum alloys constitute a group of alloys that rely solely upon cold work and solid solution strengthening for their strength properties. They differ from heat-treatable alloys in that they are incapable of forming second-phase precipitates for improved strength. Therefore, non-heat-treatable alloys cannot achieve the high strengths characteristics of precipitation-hardened ...
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