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2006
December
ONLINEWelding NASCAR's New Materials ·Impact of Digital Technology on Stud Welding · Taking Welding to the Track · Gas Purging Optimizes Root Welds · *Simulation of Weld Pool Dynamics in the Stationary Pulsed Gas Metal Arc Welding Process and Final Weld Shape · *A New Heat Source Model for Keyhole Plasma Arc Welding in FEM Analysis of the Temperature Profile · *Toward a Unified Model to Prevent Humping Defects in Gas Tungsten Arc Welding· *Exploring the Mechancial Properties of Spot Welded Dissimilar Joints for Stainless and Galvanized Steels
November
ONLINEControlling Chromium Fumes ·Weld Cracking Linked to Wires Containing Boron · Filtration System Saves by Keeping the Air Inside ·Building Submarine Components from Duplex Stainless Steels · Understanding AC GTAW Balance Control · Tips for Welding with Self-Shielded Flux Cored Wires ·A Look at Owning Your Own Weld Shop · Welding Boiler Tubes · *A Genetic Algorithm and Gradient-Descent-Based Neural Network with the Predictive Power of a Heat and Fluid Flow Model for Welding · *Looking at the Sensitization of 11-12% Chromium EN 1.4003 Stainless Steels During Welding · *Development of an Explosive Welding Process for Producting High-Strength Welds between Niobium and 6061-T651 Aluminum · *Effect of Defects on Fatigue Strength of GTAW Repaired Cast Aluminum Alloy
October
ONLINELaser Shock Peening Improves Fatigue Life of Lightweight Alloys ·Developments in Diverless Subsea Welding · Welding the World's Highest Walkway · Heat-Affected Zone Characterization by Physical Simulations · *Structural Stability of Dissimilar Weld between Two Cr-Mo-V Steels · *New Developments with C-Mn-Ni in High-Strength Steel Weld Metals - Part B, Mechancial Properties · *The Effect of Out-of-Phase Pulsing on Metal Transfer in Twin-Wire GMA Welding at High Current Level
September
ONLINEThe Benefits of Real-Time Corrosion Monitoring · Flux Laminated Alloy Improves Air Atmosphere Brazing · Strategies to Prevent Hot Cracks in Brazed Sheet Metal Structures · Troubleshooting Controlled-Atmosphere Brazing Furnaces · Applying Localized Heat for Brazing and Soldering · Improving the Soldering of Magnesium Alloys · What to Consider When Using Brazing Preforms · Better Brazing of Air Conditioners ·New Sandwich Alloy Improves Reliability of Saw Blades ·*Comparison of Buckling Distortion Propensity for SAW, GMAW, and FSW · *Exploring Solid-State Synthesis of Powder Filler Metals for Vacuum Brazing of Titanium Alloys · *New Developments with C-Mn-Ni High-Strength Steel Weld Metals, Part A-Microstructure
August
ONLINESingle-Sided Resistance Spot Welding for Auto Body Assembly · Resistance Spot Welding of Coated High-Strength Dual-Phase Steels · Reducing Exposure to Hexavalent Chromium in Welding Fumes · What You Need to Know About Remote Laser Welding · Simulation Software Helps Automakers · Aluminum GTAW Basics · *Evaluation of Chemical Composistion Limits of GMA Welding Electrode Specifications for HSLA-100 steel · *Using a Hybrid Laser Plus GMAW Process for Controlling the Bead Humping Defect · *End Point Detection of Fillet Weld Using Mechanized Rotating Arc Sensor in GMAW
July
ONLINEHardfacing Tips and Techniques · The Fundamentals of Explosion Welding · Application of Fiber Lasers to Pipeline Girth Welding · Exploring Trends in Hardfacing · What You Can Do with Explosion Welding · Controlling Heat Input by Measuring Net Power · *Characterization of Submerged Arc Welds from the World Trade Center Towers: As-Deposited Welds and Failures Associated with Impact Damage of the Exterior Columns · *Investigating the Bifurcation Phenomenon in Plate Welding
June
ONLINEControlling Heat Treatment of Welded P91 · Plasma Arc Cutting Offers Savings to Concrete Recycling Facility · Dry Hyperbaric Welding of Subsea Pipelines · Orbital GTAW Boosts Production of Leak-Free Tubing · Laser Cutting Helps Create New Defense Machinery · Titanium Emerges as New Seawater Piping for Navy Vessels · Joining Pipe with the Hybrid Laser-GMAW Process: Weld Test Results and Cost Analysis · *Mechanical Behaviors of Resistance Spot Welds during Pry-Checking Test · *The Relationship between Boron Content and Crack Properties in FCAW Deposited Metal
May
ONLINEReconditioning Power-Generation Components with Thermal Spray · Masking for Thermal Spray Coatings · Assessing Toughness Levels for Steels to Determine the Need for PWHT · Grit Blasting: Starting Your Thermal Spray Job Correctly · *Prediction of Ferrite Number of Duplex Stainless Steel Clad Metals Using RSM · *Welding Aluminum Sheet Using a High-Power Diode Laser · *Predictions of Microstructures when Welding Automotive Advanced High-Strength Steels
April
ONLINE
Back to Basics: Using a Buried Gas Metal
Arc for Seam Welds · What's Up with Wire Feeders? ·
Joining Dissimilar Aluminum Alloys · Welding Aluminum Pipe and
tube with Variable Polarity · Going Nuclear · A Brief
History of Aluminum · Sister and Brother Team Study Welding
· *Microstructure and Microchemistry of Hard Zone in Dissimilar
Weldments of Cr-Mo Steels · *Active Soldering of ITO to Copper
· *Investigating the Spot Weld Fatigue Crack Growth Process
Using X-ray Imaging
March
ONLINE
Friction Stir Welding After a Decade of
Development · An Analysis of Resistance Spot Welding ·
Friction Stir Welding Vs. Fusion Welding · Investigating
Resistance and Friction Stir Welding Processes for Joining Magnesium
· Friction Stir Welding Flies Hish at NASA · A Look at
Rocker Arm Spot Welding Machines · A Review of Postweld Heat
Treatment Code Exemptions · *Design of Experiment Analysis and
Weld Lobe Estimation for Aluminum Resistance Spot Welding · *Arc
Behavior and Melting Rate in the VP-GMAW Process · *Finite
Element Modeling Predicts the Effects of Voids on Thermal Shock
Reliability and Thermal Resistance of Power Device
February
ONLINETroubleshooting the GMAW Process · Exposition Proves to Be a Technology Showcase · Monuments in Metals - The Olympic Artist's Tale · His Fantasies Flare to Life in Metal · The First Big Breaks · *Ranking the Resistance of Wrought Superalloys to Strain-Age Cracking · *Experimental and Numerical Simulation of Restraining Forces in Gas Metal Arc Welded Joints
January
ONLINE
Managing Thermite Weld Quality for
Railroads · How to Build a 'Lean' Team · Guide to Joint
Design for Welding Ship Hulls · Essen Welding Fair Abounds with
Technology · Hybrid EBS Process Joins Heavy-Duty Impellers
· *A Novel Edge Feature Correlation Algorithm for Real-Time
Computer Vision-Based Molten Weld Pool Measurements ·
*Predicting and Reducing Liquation-Cracking Susceptibility Based on
Temperature vs. Fraction Solid · *Fatigue Behavior of Welded
Joints Part 2: Physical Modeling of the Fatigue Process
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