Gas Metal Arc Welding handbook
The Welding Handbook for Maritime Welders.pdf
Taken from Solutions: Problem Steel: Among the low alloy steels, there is also a large group of special steels with complicated chemical composition. These include spring steel, vanadium steel, high speed steel, tool steel, etc. All these steel types are difficult to weld. In many cases the steel has been hardened by annealing, and welding can destroy the hardening.
In principle, all these steels can be welded with matching ferritic consumables with the aid of preheating and postweld heat treatment to avoid hydrogen cracking in the heat affected zone (HAZ).
In the case of repair welding, it is, however, often not possible to preheat or to perform any postweld heat treatment.
So, in this case, welding with austenitic stainless or nickel-based consumables is considered to be one of the best methods. The risk of cracking is reduced by the higher solubility of hydrogen and the greater ductility of the weld metal.
There are so many types of low alloy steel on the market today that even specialists have difficulty in keeping track of the entire range. Numerous types of special alloys not classified under existing standards, are marketed by the steel works. Most types can be welded satisfactorily with Unitor Tensile having a tensile strength of 850 N/mm2. This electrode may be used both for joining and for building-up work
KOBELCO Welding Handbook - Welding Consumables and Processes.pdf
This welding handbook was issued by Kobe Steel Ltd., involving new group brand names and the corresponding products such as FamiliARC, TrustARC, and PremiARC. This handbook also informs various tips and tricks to get a better welding result by maintaining the welding parameter to prevent welding defects such as hot cracking, selecting proper wires, not to cause the deformations of wires and more.
Miller - Guidelines For Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW).pdf
GMAW can be done in three different ways:
Semiautomatic Welding - equipment controls only the electrode wire feeding. Movement of welding gun is controlled
by hand. This may be called hand-held welding.
Machine Welding - uses a gun that is connected to a manipulator of some kind (not hand-held). An operator has
to constantly set and adjust controls that move the manipulator.
Automatic Welding - uses equipment which welds without the constant adjusting of controls by a welder or operator.
On some equipment, automatic sensing devices control the correct gun alignment in a weld joint.
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