This pole suffered a failure in the welded seam at an overlapping slip splice. A tubular steel transmission pole generally consists of a series of welded assemblies. The pole shafts and arms are ...
Welding creates problems for fleet managers because construction equipment does not fall into a neat category. A welder cannot qualify a hard-facing procedure to a structural steel welding code, for ...
Pinholes are an all-too-common problem with welds. This column details some of the factors that cause these defects. Note to readers:My column for the January issue (which dealt with porosity in welds ...
To grind or not to grind? What a question! It all depends on what you’re really trying to show, and in the case of welded joints, I often want to prove the integrity of the weld. My ground-back piece ...
A senior-level rundown of how onshore/offshore line pipe joints are welded into a continuous, code-compliant pipeline—what it is, how it’s executed on the right-of-way or lay vessel, and how to ...
March 05, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - Parfuse Corporation, an aluminum-focused metal fabrication company headquartered in ...
Thermoplastic composite (TPC) welding has been a key topic for CW since the March 2006 feature, “Thermoplastic composites gain leading edge on the A380”. That article described GKN Fokker’s (Hoogeveen ...
The last two decades have seen substantial improvements in ultrasonic plastic-welding machines. Bench-top models feature proportional-valve controls, linear encoders, line-voltage regulation, internal ...
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