Leading Defense Industry experts Share Results on Overcoming Weldability Obstacles of Aluminum, Titanium, and Stainless Steels on an Array of Applications
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MIAMI - March 16, 2004 - Engineers wanting to use aluminum, titanium, and/or stainless steels because of their excellent mechanical properties, but are struggling to achieve the cost economy of high volume production, need to attend "Welding in the Defense Industry," July 13-14, 2004, at the Grosvenor Resort in Orlando, Florida.
With new available alloys and ingenious use of existing welding processes —including friction stir welding, electron beam welding, laser beam welding, and new hybrid processes, such as flux-assisted gas tungsten arc welding —engineers from Top 100 Defense Contractors will share the results of weldability development on applications that can be transferred quickly to commercial manufacturing and fabrication.
AWS has recruited experts from Wright Patterson AFB, U.S. Army's Picatinny Arsenal, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, Colorado School of Mines, Edison Welding Institute, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Concurrent Technologies, Pennsylvania State University, Boeing's Phantom Works, Applied Thermal Sciences, and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
Areas to be discussed include:
Conference fees are $550. for AWS members, and $675. for nonmember.
Professional editors will receive complimentary registration by contacting the AWS marketing and communications department at 800-443-9353, ext.308.
The full program and speaker biographies can be accessed online at www.aws.org/conferences or by calling 800-443-9353, ext.449, to receive the program by mail.
Register for the Welding in the Defense Industry Conference by calling 800-443-9353, ext. 449, or visit http://www.aws.org/w/s/conferences/ for more information.
Debrah Weir,
(800) 443 - 9353, ext. 482
dweir@aws.org