| 2000 №08 (11) | 2000 №08 (13) |
The Paton Welding Journal, 2000, #8, 47-49 pages
Formation of aerosols in CO2 modulated-current welding
O.G. Levchenko
E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute of the NASU 11 Kazymyr Malevych Str., 03150, Kyiv, Ukraine.Abstract
It is shown that the method of a modulated-current welding makes it possible to decrease the intensity of evolution of a hard constituent of welding aerosols (HCWA) and content of manganese in it as compared with welding at a continuous current. At the modulated-current welding these characteristics are determined not only by a mean power of the arc, but also by a frequency of impulses.
Keywords: welding, modulated current, welding aerosols, intensity of HCWA evolution
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