Welding gap clips - Cost-favourable means of manufacturing full connections in a reproducible way

Fully connected welded joints are widespread in many fields of technology. No matter whether as butt welds or T-joints, they are used, in particular, for joints subjected to high stresses. Especially for components which are exposed to dynamic loads, particular significance is attached to the defectfree execution of full connections. Not only incompletely connected butt welds but also T-joints exhibiting notches on the root side may substantially reduce the life cycle of components and assemblies. Various stress types and damage mechanisms play a role in this respect. For example in mobile crane construction where steels with ultrahigh strengths are utilised, multiaxial stress conditions and sudden load introduction lead to extremely high loads. In other fields (e.g. rail vehicle construction), the crucial moment is not so much the maximum load on a component but instead the extremely high number of load cycles on the vehicles used, in part, over several decades.