339 results about "Gas metal arc welding" patented technology

A method and system to determine optimum operating parameters for the startup phase of a welding-type process based on user-desired operating parameters of the post-startup or welding phase of the welding-type process are disclosed. While applicable to a number of welding-type processes, the method and system are particularly configured to determine an optimum wire feed speed for Gas Metal Arc Welding of aluminum using pulse spray transfer.

The invention provides a weld method compounding an ultrasonic and a gas metal arc welding so as to make use of the cavitation effect and the vibration effect of the ultrasonic to lead welding drops generated by the gas metal arc welding to be smoothly transmitted to a welding pool when the drops are still small. And when in welding, an electric arc shrinks under the effect of the ultrasonic and then the stiffness of the electric arc can be enhanced, which has a significant application value for welding of special positions such as a full-position welding, an overhead position welding, a flat position welding and a horizontal position welding, etc.. The invention includes the following steps: an ultrasonic generator is connected with an ultrasonic transducer 2 to convert ultrasonic energy into mechanical vibration; an ultrasonic transformer 3 enlarges amplitude; a conductive tip 5 is combined with the ultrasonic transformer; a protective gas nozzle 4 is fixed on the vibration node of the transformer; a welding wire 1 is connected with the conductive tip 5 to start a welding power supply 9 and then start an ultrasonic power supply after the electric arc becomes stable, then the transducer converts electrical energy into vibration and the ultrasonic transformer enlarges the ultrasonic amplitude which is transmitted to a melting electrode.

The invention discloses a welding method of compounding ultrasonic and nonconsumable electrode voltaic arc. Under the welding condition of protection of nonconsumable electrode gas, the ultrasonic is conducted into welding arc through the conductive electrode and the voltaic arc obviously contracts after ultrasound is carried on. The invention not only has the advantages of stable welding process and high welding and forming quality which normal TIG welding has, but also can improve weld penetration of single-pass welding and therefore the method can realize high quality welding under normal welding condition. The invention converts the high frequency electrical signals of ultrasound supply into mechanical vibration through an energy conversion device and the mechanical vibration is amplified by an amplitude transformer, and then is transmitted to an electrode studded in the amplitude transformer so as to generate supersonic vibration of corresponding frequency on the electrode. The input power of the ultrasound can be adjusted at will between 1W to 1000W and then welding is carried out by the method of normal gas metal arc welding. When voltaic arc is applied to processing pieces, the energy is concentrated, thereby effectively improving utilization ratio of voltaic arc during welding.

The invention discloses a laser welding method for a thick plate. A gap is reserved on the thick plate or a divided edge with a blunted edge is performed, a laser autogenous welding is adopted at the welding bead part for welding a pass for bottoming, then, the laser wire filling welding is carried out, a welding wire and a laser beam maintain an included angle being 15 degrees to 75 degrees, the welding wire extends into the divided edge gap from the front of the laser beam, when the filling wire welding cannot fully fill the divided edge gap, the laser-GMAW (gas metal arc welding) composite welding is finally carried out, and the welding of the thick plate is completed. The preserved gap value is respectively smaller than or equal to 0.5mm, the width of the performed welding bead used for the wire filling welding is smaller than or equal to 2.5mm, and the width of the performed welding bead used for the composite welding is smaller than or equal to 10mm. The laser welding method has the advantages that the problem of high-efficiency and high-quality welding of the thick plate is solved, so high-quality and efficient thick plate welding joints with small welding deformation and high gap bridging capability are obtained.

Apparatus and methods of repairing an in-service pipeline, tank, and/or vessel are provided. Generally, a metal arc welding under oil process employing an automated metal arc welding setup with a continuous wire feed is utilized. The process may be used in connection with a smart pig to perform in-situ internal repairs of in-service pipelines, tanks, and/or vessels. For example, a pipeline pig or other device is contemplated that employs an internal power supply, a navigation system, and a metal arc welding under oil system that is able to travel vast distances within a pipeline to reach pipeline segments that are either buried underground, under highways, or underwater making access very difficult. Once at its desired location, the pipeline pig performs in-situ welding or other internal repairs to the in-service pipeline. The disclosed apparatus and methods provide great flexibility to the repair of pipelines, tanks, and/or vessels.

The invention discloses a welding method of a stainless steel clad plate, and relates to the technical field of welding. The welding method comprises the following steps that surface oxygen complexes of the stainless steel clad plate are removed; a groove is machined, the groove is an X-shaped groove, the angle of the groove is 55-65 degrees, the root gap of the groove is 1-3 millimeters, and the root portion of a joint is placed in a base layer; a base layer is welded, a first welding layer and a third welding layer of a welding seam of the base layer are welded in a submerged automatic arc welding mode, the third welding layer is provided with a plurality of welding beads, and a second welding layer is welded in a gas metal arc welding mode; a transitional layer on the connecting portion of the base layer and a multiple layer is welded, a fourth welding layer and a fifth welding layer of the transitional layer are both welded in the gas metal arc welding layer; the multiple layer is welded, a welding seam of the multiple layer is a sixth welding layer, and the sixth welding layer is welded in a large-current submerged-arc welding mode. Compared with the prior art, the welding method of the stainless steel clad plate improves the quality of a welding joint of the stainless steel clad plate and is high in welding efficiency.

The gas-metal arc welding of metal-core wile electrodes in the pure Ar shielding gas for carbon steel, low alloy steel, and ferritic stainless steel is described. Such shielding gas provides several benefits not realized ??the gas-metal arc welding process with solid wires. When compared to standard argon/oxygen containing gas mixtures normally used for metal cored wires, these benefits include reduced silicate islands on the weld surface for improved weld appearance, reduced welding fume, and lower weld spatter, all of which provide easier clean-up after the welding operation. Benefits also include reduced arc penetration desirable for welding on thinner materials or handling poor joint fit-up. Lower voltage requirement further makes it possible to weld on thinner materials. Lower oxygen content in the weld deposits provide better toughness and easier welding in all-positions.

The invention provides a 800MPa-grade high-strength high-tenacity gas shielded welding wire which is suitable for welding engineering machinery, coal mine machinery, railroad bridges, hydropower industry, delivery lines and high-pressure containers. The gas metal arc welding wire contains the chemical compositions in weight percent: 0.05-0.10 percent of C, 0.20-0.60 percent of Si, 1.60-2.10 percent of Mn, 1.8-2.4 percent of Ni, 0.2-0.6 percent of Mo, 0.10-0.50 percent of Cr, 0.04-0.10 percent of Ti, 0.02-0.08 percent of Zr, not more than 0.010 percent of S, not more than 0.015 percent of P and the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities. Since the Ar+20% CO2 argon-rich gas shielded welding is adopted by the welding wire, low-alloy high-strength steel the tensile strength Rm of which is not lower than 800MPa can be welded; under the as welded and postwelding thermal refining condition, weld metal has high strength and good low-temperature impact toughness.

The invention discloses a real-time follow-up technique of a magnetic controlling arc sensing welding line of gas metal arc welding, which belongs to a welding control technique. The invention mainly solves the problems of complex structure, high cost, unstable performance and poor real-time performance, etc, of the prior gas metal arc welding line follow-up system. The invention adopts the technical proposal that the real-time follow-up technique comprises a magnetic controlling voltaic arc sensor, a welding system composed of a welding torch, a welding electric source and so on, a control system, a follow-up actuating mechanism composed of a set of cross sliding guides, a wheel robots and so on; wherein, the magnetic controlling voltaic arc sensor is directly installed on the welding torch, which is used for gas metal-arc welding process, to collect the horizontal and the vertical deviation signals of the welding line; the processed signals are input in a microcomputer for processing by software; the real-time control follow-up actuating mechanism is capable of automatically following up the welding line. The technique achieves automatic following up of the welding line in gas metal arc welding. The magnetic controlling arc sensor is installed on the welding torch used for gas metal-arc welding process, which eliminates the problems of preposing and postposing, and has the characteristics of good real-time performance, low cost, high stable performance and high precision.

The invention discloses a 3D metal welding and printing method based on gas metal arc welding and numerical control machining. A fusion welding machine serves as a welding heat source, 3D printing equipment serves as a moving device and a numerically-controlled machine tool machines forming surfaces. Accumulated errors and defects possibly generated internally are eliminated by adopting Z-shaped scanning and rotating each layer by a certain angle. Bead welding is carried out through the one pulse-one droplet globular transfer mode, the numerically-controlled machine tool immediately machines the surface of deposited metal once a layer of the deposited metal is accumulated, the welding process property of obtained sample pieces is excellent, and the strength of the deposited metal can meet the industrial use requirement.

The invention provides a 900MPa-level high-performance gas shielded welding wire, which is suitable for welding large-sized important structural members in the heavy load fields of engineering machinery, coal mine machinery, railroad bridges, automobile cranes, high pressure vessels and the like. The gas metal arc welding welding wire comprises the following chemical components in percentage by mass: 0.05 to 0.10 percent of C, 0.40 to 0.80 percent of Si, 1.60 to 2.00 percent of Mn, 2.0 to 2.6 percent of Ni, 0.3 to 0.7 percent of Mo, 0.20 to 0.60 percent of Cr, 0.02 to 0.08 percent of Ti, 0.002 to 0.006 percent of B, 0.02 to 0.08 percent of Zr, less than or equal to 0.010 percent of S, less than or equal to 0.010 percent of P, less than or equal to 0.003 percent of O, less than or equal to 0.007 percent of N, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities. The welding wire adopts Ar+20 percent CO2 gas shielded welding rich in argon, can be used for welding high-strength low ally steel of which the tensile strength Rm is more than or equal to 900MPa, and a weld metal has high obdurability and cracking resistance under a welding condition and a post-welding hardening and tempering condition.

The invention discloses a device and a method for assisting gas metal arc welding by using externally applied magnetic fields, belonging to the field of welding techniques under the action of magnetic fields. The device comprises necessary conventional equipment for gas metal arc welding, a short circuiting transfer detection circuit, an exciting drive circuit, a main exciting circuit and a magnetic head device. According to the invention, during droplet short circuit period, a transverse pulsed magnet field which is acted on a short circuit liquid bridge and perpendicular to a welding-wire axis can be generated so as to promote the advanced fracture of the short circuit liquid bridge; and compared with the conventional method, the method provided by the invention has the advantages that the peak current during the short circuit period is reduced, the induced explosion and splash are lowered, and the regularity of a short circuit cycle in the process of short circuiting transfer welding can be improved. The device disclosed by the invention is simple in manufacturing, and the welding process of short circuiting transfer is obviously improved.

The invention relates to a gas metal arc welding weld wire suitable for the working temperature being -196 DEG C. According to the technical field, the gas metal arc welding weld wire is prepared from, by weight, 0.30%-0.55% of C, 24%-26% of Mn, 6.4%-8.2% of Ni, 2.5%-4.0% of W, not larger than 0.002% of P, not larger than 0.001% of S and the balance Fe and inevitable impurities. The gas metal arc welding weld wire is low in preparation cost and simple in alloy composition system; formed weld metal has the characteristic of ultralow temperature high toughness, and the strength is matched with that of ultralow-temperature high manganese steel; and a welding joint has the mechanical properties of high strength and excellent ultralow temperature toughness, and the technical requirements for the strength and ultralow temperature toughness of equipment welded when the working temperature is -196 DEG C can be met.

The invention discloses a method for welding a pile leg main board pipe, which comprises the following steps of: a. abutting a processed semicircular plate and a rack; b. heating a welded opening to 120-180 DEG C for carrying out positioned spot welding, wherein the length of positioned spot welding is 100-150mm, and the interval is smaller than 300mm; c. preheating a workpiece to 150-180 DEG C, wherein the preheating range is at least within 80mm at the periphery of a welding seam; d. controlling interlayer temperature to 180+/-10 DEG C, sealing by adopting a GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding) wire of 1-1.4mm and filling a cover surface in 3-5mm by submerged arc welding; and when welding, synchronously carrying out symmetrical welding on a joint of the same semicircular plate and the rack to eliminate deformation generated in the welding process. By adopting a welding method combining GMAW and submerged arc welding, the invention not only can meet the requirement of welding quality, but also can greatly reduce the welding cost and greatly improve the welding speed.

This invention relates to a shielding gas mixture for use with gas metal arc welding with a consumable wire electrode of coated steels, said shielding gas mixture consisting essentially of: (vii) from 6 to 10 volume percent carbon dioxide; (viii) from 6 to 10 volume percent helium; and (ix) the balance argon; wherein the consumable wire electrode is a solid wire, a solid wire having silicon content of from about 0.5 to 1.0 weight percent of the total wire chemistry, a metal-cored wire or a flux-cored wire.

A weld wire electrode for use as a consumable in a gas-metal arc welding process comprises two or more strips wrapped around one another and drawn to a desired wire diameter.

The invention discloses a welding method for micro-plasma arc welding of a pure titanium foil, in particular the welding of the pure titanium foil of which the titanium content is over 99 percent and the thickness is of 0.05 mm, and relates to the technical field of welding. The method comprises the following steps of: cutting the pure titanium foil to be welded into required sizes; selecting two pure titanium foils (4) and (7), and removing oil stains at the peripheries of the sides to be welded thereof; assembling the two pure titanium foils between fixtures of a tooling system; lapping the sides to be welded for about 0.1 to 0.2 mm so as to ensure a welding seam on grooves (6) of base plates of the fixtures; driving a welding torch to move along the welding seam (9) above the welding seam by a motor on the tooling system; and adopting a pulse current for welding. The welding method for the micro-plasma arc welding of the pure titanium foil realizes the butt welding of the micro-plasma arc welding of the pure titanium foil of 0.05 mm, solves the problems of the deformation and burning of the welding of the pure titanium, saves welding cost without adding a filling metal in the welding seam, is favorable for industrial popularization, and fills the blank of the micro-plasma arc welding in the field of pure titanium foils.

A method of preparing a mechanical component with an Fe—Cr—C hardfacing weld overlay alloy for improving the resistance of the mechanical component to abrasion, erosion or erosion/corrosion for use in very abrasive, erosion or erosive/corrosive environments by significantly increasing the hardness of the weld overlay is disclosed. To improve the resistance to abrasion, erosion or corrosion, a weld overlay of a Fe—Cr—C hardfacing alloy is applied onto the surface of a metallic component, such as tubes, pipes, or vessels. Welding and cladding methods including gas-metal-arc welding (GMAW), gas-tungsten-arc welding (GTAW), and laser cladding may be utilized. Then, the component is heat-treated at elevated temperatures for a sufficient time, resulting in additional hardening and thus further increasing the weld overlay's resistance to abrasion, erosion, or erosion/corrosion.

The invention discloses a non-gas metal arc welding 3 D adding material repair device and repair method. The repair device comprises a controller, a four-axis linkage platform, a laser vision sensor, an infrared vision sensor, a clamp, a non-metal arc welding torch, a wire feeding unit and a welding wire disc. The repair method comprises the steps that a defective workpiece is installed on a repair workbench; the laser vision sensor is driven to scan a defective three-dimensional outline; the controller rebuilds the defective three-dimensional outline; specific welding parameters are determined; the controller drives the infrared vision sensor to scan a molten pool, time-frequency parameters of a molten pool image are obtained, a compensation control code is generated according to the time-frequency parameters of the molten pool image, and the set welding parameters are corrected in real time; and after repair, the laser vision sensor is driven again to scan the defective three-dimensional outline, whether the repaired workpiece reaches the standard is determined, and if not, defects are repaired again till defect repair reaches the standard. The repair device is simple in structure, convenient to operate and high in reliability and adaptability.

The invention relates to a vibrating wire-feeding method which is characterized in that right and left swinging of a welding gun is combined with reciprocating vibration of a welding wire; the automatic wire-feeding process is accompanied by the axial vibration of the welding wire; a molten welding material is deposited on the internal wall of a pipe, and the fluidity of a welding pool is greatly improved, so as to further improve the surfacing efficiency; the vibrating welding wire can uniformly stir the molten pool in the melting process of the welding wire, especially for the material with poor fluidity, such as nickel-base alloy, so that gas can escape rapidly when metal in the molten pool is stirred, and hot welding cracks and pores are reduced; as the vibrating wire-feeding stirs the molten pool, solidification and crystallization in the molten pool are uniform; the metallurgical structure of a surfacing layer is uniform and exquisite; the mechanical property of the surfacing layer is greatly superior to those of normal argon tungsten-arc welding and gas metal-arc welding; the quality of a surfacing joint is improved to a great extent; the property is good; the yield of products is greatly increased; and the property of the surfacing joint is greatly improved.