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	SPECIAL APPLICATIONS
		The development of a suitable technique for welding armor plate is contingent upon a clear understanding of the factors affecting the weldability of armor plates, the structural soundness of the weld, and its ultimate ability to withstand the forces of impact and penetration in service.
		Welding of damaged armor on vehicles in the field requires, as a preliminary step, that the type of armor be identified by a method.
		The welding is done from the soft side of the armor plate and the strength of the joint depends on the soundness of the plug welds.
	www.angelfire.com /my/welding/special.html (5008 words)

	Underwater welding - Patent 4039798 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		With plasma or TIG welding, the electric arc is used merely to melt the metal of the workpiece to form the weld puddle.
		In a plasma welding torch, the arc, struck between the workpiece and the non-consumable electrode in the torch, is already constricted by means of a nozzle orifice, through which a stream of thermally-ionised gas flows, and the voltage necessary to sustain such an arc is relatively high.
		Similarly, the arc in a TIG welding torch is struck between a non-consumable electrode in the torch and the workpiece.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4039798.html (1739 words)

	Taking the Plunge - A guide to Starting an Underwater Welding Career
		As a general rule, candidates seeking underwater welding as a career will decide whether or not they are comfortable with their career choice after completing basic commercial dive training.
		The welding processes, classes of weld and qualification tests associated with underwater welding are described in ANSI/AWS D3.6.
		The commercial diving and underwater welding industry is as diverse as the customers it serves.
	www.aws.org /education/plunge.html (1837 words)

	Underwater wet welding electrodes rods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Welding is always done with DC current and for most purposes using straight (-) polarity (stinger negative).
		Negative polarity is good for vertical and overhead welding because the electrode is colder and thereby the weld material tends to stick to the kerf.
		Motor generator welding machines are the most common source of current used in underwater welding.
	www.magmafusion.com /underwaterelectrodes.htm (1422 words)

	Underwater Friction Stud Welding for Military and Commercial Use (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Underwater dry chamber welding, although capable of producing sound welds beyond 750 feet (228m), would not be practical due to the logistics and set-up time.
		In early 1998, friction stud welding was performed commercially at a depth of 1,300 feet (394m) and involved the friction welding of anode continuity tails to riser base piles using a work-class ROV.
		Friction stud welding provides the capability to weld a pattern of studs to the hull of a disable submarine, to which a pad-eye can be attached for the SRC haul-down cable and life support gas can be provided by means of a hot tap process using hollow studs.
	www.underwater.com /archives/arch/041.03.shtml (1799 words)

	Choose Divers Academy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Underwater welding also offers a unique opportunity to work in a diversified environment of the oceans, rivers, and lakes of the world.
		Underwater welding also requires a knife switch to stop the current when the underwater welder is not welding.
		Underwater welding has many environmental challenges as well, such as the heavy river currents, silt river bottoms, large ocean swells knocking the underwater welder around, and of course marine life.
	www.diversacademy.com /welding.html (309 words)

	Underwater welding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Underwater welding refers to a number of distinct welding processes that are performed underwater.
		In dry welding the weld is performed at the prevailing pressure in a chamber filled with a gas mixture sealed around the structure being welded.
		Underwater welders must also consider the safety issues that normal divers face; most notably, the risk of decompression sickness due to the increased pressure of inhaled breathing gases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Underwater_welding (388 words)

	Welding - Wikimedia Commons
		Welding is a fabrication process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by causing coalescence.
		Regardless of location, however, welding remains dangerous, and precautions must be taken to avoid burns, electric shock, poisonous fumes, and overexposure to ultraviolet light.
		A cross-section of a welded butt joint, with shading that shows the locations of the fusion zone (darkest gray) and the heat-affected zone (middle shade of gray) in the base material (lightest gray).
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Welding (277 words)

	Taking the Plunge into Underwater Welding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Underwater welding fascinates even the most experienced members of the welding industry, as clearly evidenced by the large crowds who gather each time it's demonstrated at the AWS Welding Exposition.
		While underwater welding and cutting methods have been used for new construction such as installing new offshore structures, subsea pipelines, and harbor facilities, they are most often used for maintenance and repair applications.
		UnderWater Magazine is the quarterly journal of the Association of Diving Contractors International, Inc. It is published by Doyle Publishing Company for the commercial diving, ROV, and underwater industries.
	www.underwater.com /archives/arch/marapr00.01.shtml (2326 words)

	State-of-the-art underwater wet welding - offshore oil fields World Oil - Find Articles
		Wet welding is done at ambient pressure with the welder-diver in the water and no mechanical barrier between water and welding arc.
		While wet welding procedures have been qualified, and used for underwater repairs, to 325 ft (100 m), further development of electrodes and welding processes will be required if satisfactory wet welded structural repairs are to be made at greater depths.
		Several dry welded pipeline tie-ins have been made to 720 ft (220 m); in addition, one subsea tie-in was made at 1,012 ft (308 m).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3159/is_n7_v219/ai_21219386 (680 words)

	Welding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Welding, however, was transformed during the 19th century—in 1800, Sir Humphry Davy discovered the electric arc, and advances in arc welding continued with the inventions of metal electrodes by a Russian, Nikolai Slavyanov, and an American, C.L. Coffin in the late 1800s, even as carbon arc welding, which used a carbon electrode, gained popularity.
		Welding in space is also possible—it was first attempted in 1969 by Russian cosmonauts, when they performed experiments to test shielded metal arc welding, plasma arc welding, and electron beam welding in a depressurized environment.
		Goggles and welding helmets with dark face plates are worn to prevent this exposure, and in recent years, new helmet models have been produced that feature a face plate that self-darkens upon exposure to high amounts of UV light.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Welding (5410 words)

	Welding Science & Technology
		Welding history recognizes FORGE WELDING, which belongs to the pressure category, as one of the oldest processes performed in the flsmith's shop well before the twentieth century.
		Of the fusion welding processes developed in the twentieth century, and acclaimed as a real and important breakthrough, GAS WELDING, using an open FLAME, is probably one of the earliest of modern welding history.
		High Energy Welding processes are more specialized, in that they require sophisticated equipment, mostly precisely computer controlled, and are used for specific and important applications like aerospace, submarine (but not Underwater-welding!) and nuclear, or for mass production of delicate small implements.
	www.weldinginfocenter.org /sci_tech/st_02.html (1459 words)

	Underwater welding (Knowledge Summary)
		Coffer dam welding, which is carried out in the dry, in air, where a rigid steel structure to house the welders is sealed against the side of the structure to be welded, and is open to the atmosphere.
		Hyperbaric welding, in which a chamber is sealed around the structure to be welded, and is filled with a gas (commonly helium containing 0.5 bar of oxygen) at the prevailing pressure.
		In view of the high weld metal diffusible hydrogen levels generated in wet underwater welding, there is a risk of hydrogen-assisted cracking which increases with increasing carbon equivalent.
	www.twi.co.uk /j32k/getFile/ksdja001.html (1217 words)

	Underwater Welding - Weld Talk Message Boards
		Underwater welding is taught at comercial diving schools or military diving schools.
		Welding rods are water proofed with electrical tape, epoxy or plastic paint.
		Underwater welding part of army welding manual is taken from USN Underwater Cutting and Welding Manual.
	www.hobartwelders.com /mboard/showthread.php?p=2440 (934 words)

	Underwater Cutting Torches and Wet Welding Rods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Our new "fin wrap" underwater cutting rods (patent pending) have been tank and field tested and documented to burn 50% longer and more reliably than rival cutting rods on the market.
		The inner fuel of our underwater cutting rods are chemically leached for greater burn reliability and performance.The inner fuel spokes are subsequently crimped inside a seamless metal jacket.
		Our underwater cutting consumables come 50 per box and weigh 20 pounds (9 kg) for easy shipping and deployment in both fresh and saltwater settings.
	www.magnumusa.com /seacutting.htm (2173 words)

	Underwater welding
		Research has taken place in wet underwater arc welding covering studies on hydrogen content of underwater welds and development and evaluation of both ferritic and Ni-based MMA electrodes.
		Underwater friction welding techniques include friction taper stitch welding.
		TWI North, Middlesbrough, is the home of the largest indoor tank in Europe used for RandD and training and examination of divers in underwater welding and inspection techniques.
	www.twi.co.uk /j32k/getFile/ogunderwater.html (264 words)

	Magmafusion Cutting Torch does land and underwater
		Underwater workers will find our new "fin wrap" wet welding electrodes easy to ignite and a reliable burn.
		This is why underwater construction commercial diving organizations, construction equipment rental agencies, equipment contractors and contractors in general are finding our cutting products superior to other cutting and welding consumables currently on the market.
		Our cutting rods are so reliable we have underwater welding schools using them to teach underwater cutting, underwater demolition and underwater plasma techniques.
	www.magmafusion.com (1447 words)

	Broco Inc. - World Leader in Welding Products
		Broco Underwater Softouch premium wet welding electrodes are the standard for commercially available mild and stainless steel wet welding electrodes, while EasyTouch wet welding electrodes are the highest quality economy electrodes on the market today.
		Softouch welds consistently meet or exceed AWS D3.6-98 specifications for Type B welds, the American Welding Society's standard for certifying underwater welds.
		The BR-20 Welding Stinger is designed to hold the electrode at the optimum angle to the work piece delivering quality welds while reducing operator fatigue.
	www.brocoinc.com /default.aspx?page=underwater (1556 words)

	Underwater Welding
		The main risks for the welder performing Underwater-welding are the potential for electric shock, the possibility of producing in the arc mixtures of hydrogen and oxygen in pockets, which might set up an explosion, and the common danger sustained by divers, of having nitrogen diffuse in the blood in dangerous proportions.
		Underwater-welding was just applied to weld a patch until a more thorough repair could be performed.
		One is to build an enclosure, a pit, around the place of repair and to pump away all the water: that amounts to prepare the conditions for normal welding in air, although the place may be deep under sea level.
	www.robots4welding.com /articles.php?tag=598 (374 words)

	STRONG Welding Products, Inc.
		Broco® is the leader in exothermic cutting and underwater welding systems and Rankin Industries™ is a designer and manufacturer of quality hardfacing and wear solutions products.
		A joining of strengths allow Broco® and Rankin™ to offer customers a range of maintenance and repair welding and cutting products, gaseous oxygen cutting systems used on land and underwater, underwater and portable welding systems, specialty hardfacing wires and rods, and high performance metal alloys.
		Today, STRONG Welding Products℠ is led by a team of industry experts and service professionals who share a commitment to quality, service and cost-effective solutions.
	www.strongweldingproducts.com (338 words)

	Underwater Welding Services
		We have performed over 100 underwater welding projects on various components of the reactor, and in the reactor vessel itself.
		The hyperbaric tank was designed exclusively for the nuclear underwater welding industry and can achieve a simulated depth of 95 feet of water.
		The ASME procedures are qualified for all position groove welds on stainless steel plate and pipe in water depths up to and over 45 feet of water.
	www.uccdive.com /page30.htm (297 words)

	Courses in underwater welding for professional commercial divers.
		Courses in underwater welding for professional commercial divers.
		Coursework consists of lectures in mechanical properties and metallurgy of steels, metallurgy in welding, joint design, electrode selection, and other topics associated with underwater welding.
		Practical work is extensive, both topside and underwater, and forms the critical component in acquiring mandatory craft skills.
	www.natpoly.edu /Programs/COO/Concentrations/WT.html (200 words)

	Underwater-welding and all other modern Processes.
		An Article on Welding in cold Weather was published in section 3 of the issue 30 of Practical Welding Letter.
		An Article on Friction Stir Welding was published in the Contribution Department (11) of the issue 32 of Practical Welding Letter for April 2006.
		High Energy Welding processes are more specialized, in that they require sophisticated equipment, mostly precisely computer controlled, and are used for specific and important applications like aerospace, outer space, submarine (but not Underwater-welding!) and nuclear, or for mass production of delicate small implements.
	www.welding-advisers.com /Underwater-welding.html (1954 words)

	Welding-Plan Advice and Practical Solutions for welders...
		I keep in touch with a long list of readers of my monthly Practical Welding Letter available at no cost by Subscription, and I routinely write articles in the technical press, as I report in my publications.
		Welding-aluminum and aluminum alloys: which types are successfully welded.
		Heat treated aluminum alloys and the consequences of welding.
	www.welding-advisers.com (617 words)

	underwater welding - Primecut marine
		This system provides the fastest, most efficient and cost effective means of completing underwater tasks involving cutting, piercing, and gouging.
		Underwater system and «SofTouch» rods make welding easy and represent a true technological advancement for underwater welding.
		Underwater put all its know-how and experience to create its new «EasyTouch» rods.
	www.soudotec.com /broco/uwat.html (281 words)

	Underwater welding storyboard
		As the author of the UK’s National Qualification and The Professional Divers Manual on Wet Welding, I knew he was the man for the job and asked him to advise us on the suitability of wet welding”.
		The three headings shown below are taken from chapter 1 of the new book on underwater welding by David J. Keats (MD) of Speciality Welds Ltd, entitled 'A Welder's Mate'.
		A case for wet welding, describes the benefits of the process and how it can be performed to high quality standards.
	www.specialwelds.com /underwater-welding (430 words)

	Land and underwater cutting and welding rods
		Additionally, our newly developed underwater wet welding electrodes burn more reliably and provide superior welds due to their unique coating.
		Nevertheless, when it comes to the challenges of underwater construction commercial diving organizations, construction equipment rental agencies, equipment contractors and contractors in general are finding our cutting products superior to other cutting and welding consumables currently on the market.
		Our standard underwater cutting rods can be ignited with any DC welder like those made by Thermadyne ®, Smith Welding ®, Thermal Dynamics ® or Tweco ®.
	www.magnumusa.com (1212 words)

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