Advanced Welding Processes: Technologies and Process Control

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plasma welding 98
remote-control 237–8
robotic welding 228–9
TIG systems 98
process monitoring see monitoring
programmed touch striking 76
programming parameters 41–2
programming robotic systems 229–31,
239–40
off-line programming 239–40
program storage 231–2
projected spray transfer 102–3
pulsed flux-cored wire welding 125–6
pulsed GMAW 120–1, 124–5
pulsed GTAW 79–81, 98
pulsed keyhole plasma 142
pulsed laser output 151
quality
and automation and robotics 219
control systems 17–18, 215–16
and improved repeatability 42
of joints 17–18
radiographic control 215
rapid prototyping 241
rare-earth elements 47, 78
recoil pressure 158–9
record keeping 184
rectifiers 26–7
reduced gap GMAW 170
remote-control systems 237–8
resistance welding 3–4, 227, 233–4
reverse polarity plasma 141
RF excitation systems 156
rim formation 78–9
robotic welding 23–4, 225–36
applications 233–6
arc welding 228
cartesian robots 226–7
component tolerances 233
control systems 228–9
drive systems 227
gantry robots 226–7
jigging system 232
joint design 233
laser welding 228
mechanical manipulation systems
225–7
operator interface 229
PLAY mode 230–1
point-to-point with interpolation 231
position of the arm 228–9, 232
power beam welding 235–6
programming 229–31, 239–40
program storage 231–2
resistance welding 227, 233–4
safety 232
SCARA configuration 226, 230, 231
seam welding 234–5
TEACH mode 230, 231
teach-by-doing 230–1
torch cleaning 232
TRACE mode 230–1
welding package 227–8
work flow 233
see also automation
roll bonding 5
rotating transfer 107–8
rutile flux-cored wires 53, 108–9, 125
safety 21
and automation and robotics 218–19,
232
and electron beam welding 161
and laser welding 154–5
SAW see submerged arc welding (SAW)
SCARA configuration 226, 230, 231
Scott connection system 26
SCR (silicon-controlled rectifiers) phase
control 31–3, 36
seam welding 224, 234–5
secondary switched transistor power
supplies 34–5
selection of welding processes 181
self-shielded flux-cored wires 52, 53, 54,
109
Sellafield 220
sensors 206–11
shielded metal arc welding (SMAW)
9–10
electrode classification 250–3
shielding gases 58–73
arc stiffness 59
arc support and stability 58–9
argon 58, 63, 64–5, 67–8, 72–3
argon/chlorine mixtures 70
argon/Freon mixtures 70
argon/sulphur dioxide mixtures 70
atmospheric contamination 59–60