Downward gas-metal-arc welding process

Details Downward gas-metal-arc welding process Downward gas-metal-arc welding process

1988-06-10

1989-06-27

Shaw, Clifford C.

Electric heating

Metal heating

By arc

219 74, 219137R, B23K 916

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active

048432105

ABSTRACT:
A gas-metal-arc welding process, utilizing a consumable, axially advanced, wire electrode and a four-gas shielding mixture, forms a weld bead along a vertically downwardly direction. As the bead is formed, the electrode is moved vertically downwardly in alignment with the central axis of the bead, with the tip of the electrode gapped from the weld material deposit which forms the bead. A relatively high electrical voltage and current density is applied to the electrode to produce a stable, conically-shaped hot plasma field. The field is concentric with the axis of the electrode and extends across the gap. The plasma field is positioned to transversely overlay, and to be substantially coextensive with, the full width of the bead. Molten metal globules transfer by free flight along the axis of the field, from the electrode tip across the gap to the weld deposit to laterally spread out and adhere to the deposit to form the bead.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4436981 (1984-03-01), Sakamoto et al.
patent: 4463243 (1984-07-01), Church

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