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Dual Bypass Gas Metal Arc Welding Process And Control, Xiaopei Liu Jan 2008

Dual Bypass Gas Metal Arc Welding Process And Control, Xiaopei Liu

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding) is one of the most important arc welding processes being adopted in modern manufacturing industry due to its advantages in productivity, energy efficiency and automation. By monitoring and improving some of the important properties of GMAW such as production rate, metal transfer and base metal heat input, researchers could bring the process efficiency and stability to a new level. In recent years, some innovative modifications of GMAW such as Twins, Tandem and laser-MIG hybrid welding have been adopted into many industrial applications for better productivity.

In this dissertation, a novel GMAW called DB-GMAW (Dual Bypass …