Viknesh Vijayenthiran February 18, 2013 Comment Now! Acura engineers have come up with a new welding technique that allows them to join ordinary steel components with lightweight aluminum pieces in a ...

Welding. There’s something almost supernatural about being able to melt metal and use it to glue other pieces of metal together. It’s an experience you must have if you’ve never done it before.

As long as the auto industry has existed, various automated and non-automated processes have been developed to bond two or more pieces of metal together through the art of welding. Normally, how a car ...

A professional welder carefully assembles and welds a large aluminum frame inside a spacious industrial workshop. The clean, ...

General Motors has developed what it says is an industry-first aluminum welding technology, which allows it to use more aluminum in the construction of its cars rather than heavier conventional ...

01]Set the flow of pure argon shielding gas to 16 to 18 cubic feet per hour (CFH) for aluminum that's up to 0.500 inch thick. A percentage of helium can be added for thicker aluminum parts to increase ...

Our last foray with Metal Inert Gas (MIG) welding—which, by the way, is generally a misnomer for GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding), but it's so commonly used, we'll continue to do so—will be a general ...

A dent in aluminum is not the same as a dent in steel. Aluminum is heat-sensitive, work-hardens rapidly, and has a protective oxide layer. Steel — especially modern high-strength grades — resists ...

Just one set of standard copper electrodes produced 50,000 high-quality welds on automotive-grade aluminum sheet. The remarkably long electrode life resulted from polishing the copper electrodes ...

For manufacturers handling carbon steel, stainless steel, and aluminum alloys in the same workshop, welding automation often means compromising between equipment investment, material quality, and ...