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04-27-2007, 01:46 AM
Since quite a few people in the club are in MMET, I thought I would make a thread about the senior project we've been working on. Some of you may have seen it in the Thompson Hall welding lab.
For the project Dr. Price wanted us to design and build a submerged arc welding (SAW) table for use in the Thompson Hall welding lab. Basically a solid consumable electrode is fed into into a pile of granular flux. The pile of flux protects the electrode and can be used to add alloying elements. The nice part about this process is since the arc is buried within the flux, there is no flash and therefore you do not have to wear a welding helmet to watch it. Most of the time this process is a automated one, with the welding system and hopper full of flux running above the work piece on a track system. SAW produces high quality welds and can weld up to 3 inch thick plate in a single pass. I've also included a couple of pictures below to help describe the SAW process.
The team consisted of four members, Clint Loggins, Brady Marsh, Adam Janac, and Chris Feller (me).
Some of you may know a few of the other members as well. Clint TA's some of the ENTC courses, and has been helping Greg build John Brown's rollcage. Brady is Will's (william_ace) roommate.
For the project Dr. Price wanted us to design and build a submerged arc welding (SAW) table for use in the Thompson Hall welding lab. Basically a solid consumable electrode is fed into into a pile of granular flux. The pile of flux protects the electrode and can be used to add alloying elements. The nice part about this process is since the arc is buried within the flux, there is no flash and therefore you do not have to wear a welding helmet to watch it. Most of the time this process is a automated one, with the welding system and hopper full of flux running above the work piece on a track system. SAW produces high quality welds and can weld up to 3 inch thick plate in a single pass. I've also included a couple of pictures below to help describe the SAW process.
The team consisted of four members, Clint Loggins, Brady Marsh, Adam Janac, and Chris Feller (me).
Some of you may know a few of the other members as well. Clint TA's some of the ENTC courses, and has been helping Greg build John Brown's rollcage. Brady is Will's (william_ace) roommate.