Abstract:
Methods are provided which comprise the steps of: a) emitting through the cutting head of the laser cutting machine a focused laser beam that does not cut or etch the material of the tube; b) moving the cutting head along a given scanning direction; and c) while the cutting head is moving along the scanning direction, detecting through suitable sensors the radiation reflected or emitted by the tube and establishing point by point, on the base of the signal provided by these sensors, the presence or absence of the material of the tube.
Abstract:
An ultrahigh-strength welded joint with superior strength and toughness, and a method for producing the ultrahigh-strength welded joint by means of single-pass welding by using laser hybrid welding, are provided, wherein the welded joint comprising a steel plate having a plate thickness of 4 mm to 12 mm and including weld metal of almost full martensite structure, wherein, in a cross-section of the welded joint in a direction perpendicular to a welding direction, a cross-sectional shape of the weld metal has a width W1 of 2.0 to 7.0 mm at a surface of the steel plate and a width W2 of 0.5 to 2.4 mm at a position where is separated from the surface by three-quarters of the plate thickness, wherein the weld metal comprises, by mass%, C: over 0.09% to 0.24%; Si: 0.2% to 1.0%; Mn: 0.5% to 2.5%; P: 0.02% or less; S: 0.02% or less; Al: 0.004% to 0.08%; Ti: 0.005% to 0.15%; O: 0.005% to 0.05%; and Ni: 1.0% to 9%, and wherein a carbon equivalent (Ceq) is 0.40% to 1.00%, a value Y as defined by equation (([Si]+[Mn])/40 + [Al] + [Ti]) is 0.07% to 0.20%.
Abstract:
In a vehicle body structure in which a vehicle-body frame of front side frames 2 with a flangeless structure having a rectangular closed cross section and a vehicle-body panel of a dash panel 1 are welded, a concave portion 15 is formed at a specified portion of the vehicle-body panel to which the vehicle-body frame is welded so as to be concaved toward one side which is opposite to a disposition side of the vehicle-body frame and extends in its longitudinal direction, a temporary connection portion 16 which temporarily connects the vehicle-body frame to a side of the concave portion 15 is formed, and a laser welding portion 17 which connects the vehicle-body frame to the vehicle-body panel is formed near the temporary connection portion 16 so as to extend along the longitudinal direction of the vehicle-body frame.
Abstract:
Provided is a wire rod for an I-type oil ring, which includes right and left rail portions and a web portion connecting the rail portions, which has an oil hole or a molten through hole formed in the web portion, and which has a circumscribing circle diameter of 10 mm or less in its transverse contour. The molten through hole has such a remolten portion formed on its exit side as encloses the exit of the molten through hole. The remolten portion exceeds such a molten portion in the transverse section along the center of the molten through hole as is formed in the molten through hole, and is formed to have 200 µm or less from the outer circumference of the molten through hole and 100 µm or less in the depth direction of the molten through hole.
Abstract:
A method and related apparatus for precision deploy-attaching beam-mount structure (38) to the outside of an elongate column (32) at plural, defined attachment sites that are distributed and spaced along the length of the column (32). The method involves (a) preparing an elongate column (32) to act as a travel way for a carriage (62) which is designed to transport and deploy beam-mount structure (38), shifting such a carriage (62) progressively along the column (32) from defined attachment site to defined attachment site and at each site, deploy-attaching from the carriage (62) to the column (32) the carriage-carried beam-mount structure (38).
Abstract:
The invention concerns a method of strengthening a welded connexion comprising at least one weld seam (2,3) and/or of increasing of tolerance of a welded connexion in relation to fatigue load which welded connexion joins at least two sections of one component or at least one section (4) of a first component (6) and at least one section (5) of a second component (7) with each other, wherein the geometry of the at least one weld seam (2,3) and of at least one section (4,5) of at least one component (6,7), which at least one section (4,5) adjoins to the at least one weld seam (2, 3), is specifically modified by removing welding material (8) from the at least one weld seam (2,3) and by removing material of the at least one section (4,5) of the at least one component (6,7), which material adjoins to the at least one weld seam (2,3) . The invention relates also to an element for a tower of a wind turbine, to a tower of a wind turbine and to a wind turbine having at least one welded connexion with this modified geometry.
Abstract:
A method and related apparatus for precision deploy-attaching beam-mount structure (38) to the outside of an elongate column (32) at plural, defined attachment sites that are distributed and spaced along the length of the column (32). The method involves (a) preparing an elongate column (32) to act as a travel way for a carriage (62) which is designed to transport and deploy beam-mount structure (38), shifting such a carriage (62) progressively along the column (32) from defined attachment site to defined attachment site and at each site, deploy-attaching from the carriage (62) to the column (32) the carriage-carried beam-mount structure (38).
Abstract:
A welding system (10) which allows a single welding operator to perform quick, easy and high quality vertical welds comprises a welding fixture (12) with a pair of opposing, positionally adjustable welding shoes, and lock screws for attaching to a workpiece (56) such as an I-beam. Welding fixture (12) is located adjacent the end of an articulating boom (20), and includes a welding torch (14) and oscillator (48). A rotary straight wire feeder (18) removes the cant and helix from welding wire as it is fed to the welding torch (14). The welding torch (14) prevents welding wire from fusing to a guide tube. A distributed welding control system comprising a plurality of controller modules (46, 48, 50, and 52) is interfaced with a common bus (54) and allows a welding operator to program automated welding cycles for various welding operations. The welding system (10) is particularly useful for installing stiffener plates (58) onto structural beams (56).
Abstract:
A laser processing machine includes a work head, a platelike work working table for processing a plate-like work, a rod-like work working table including a rod-like work holder for processing a rod-like work, and a work area in which the work head is movably provided. The plate-like work working table is provided movably from one side of the work area into the work area. The rod-like work working table is provided movably from another side of the work area into the work area that is opposite side of the one side. According to the laser processing machine, when switching over between a processing of a plate-like work and a processing of a rod-like work, it is needed only to move/evacuate the plate-like work working table and the rod-like work working table to/from the work area, so that the switching-over operation can be easily done.