Issue 4 (2011)
Issue Highlights:
TWI experts keep flying legend airborne
Nineteen forties engineering and 2011 welding expertise joined forces at TWI recently, in a combined effort to keep the world’s oldest flying jet aircraft in the skies. A thin sheet stainless steel shroud surrounding...
Applications of MIG brazing and requirements on the filler materials - Gentle on the materials and flexible
In the last fifteen years, metal-inert gas (MIG) brazing has become established as an alternative to the welding of thin sheets because it is gentle on the materials. Areas of application are automobile bodymaking,...
Development of a cost-effective seam tracking system for the automated GMA welding of aluminium alloys
Against the background of constantly rising energy costs and of a growing awareness of the sustainable utilisation of resources, more and more significance is being to the joining of light metals such as aluminium. Au...