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January 2023
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FABTECH 2022
Automation aiding the workforce, innovative products helping welders, large cutting machines making unique shapes, and individuals greeting long-time business contacts and making new connections
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Improving Communication Between Generations
As a new year begins, we continue to find ourselves making significant efforts to improve and stabilize our lives. I believe we all agree that our primary focus should be on relationships in every aspect of our lives, including our welding industry relations.
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Explore AWS news, Tech Topics, Membership activities, and much more.
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Don't miss out on milestones achieved by various companies.
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A Time Saving Enterprise
Opening the door to additive manufacturing in a naval aircraft carrier construction project
SEE MOREInnovations Beneath The Surface
How advancements in underwater welding continue to expand its applications
SEE MOREStainless Q&A
Q: AWS D1.6/D1.6M, Structural Welding Code — Stainless Steel, provides in Clause 6.5.1 that “Welding procedures qualified using any base metal or combination of base metals listed in Table 5.2 shall qualify all other base metals listed in Table 5.2
SEE MORETwo Centuries of Shipbuilding
Dive into the evolution of watercraft through the years
SEE MOREFabricating the Enterprise's Newest Successor
The U.S. Navy’s latest aircraft carrier boasts tons of steel, various welding processes, and an Olympic connection
SEE MOREWelding Journal Research Supplement Archive
Relevant research papers by the world’s foremost scientists, engineers, scholars and industry professionals, are published monthly in the Welding Journal and are also available for download in PDF format. Browse current peer-reviewed reports of research on welding procedures, metallurgy, equipment, processes, testing and quality control.
Research papers must be submitted through Editorial Manager, where you will find more information on submission guidelines and author responsibilities. The Welding Journal Impact Factor (JIF) for 2022 is 2.2. Please email wjrs@aws.org if you have any questions.
Publication Archive
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