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Recently I've been considering (after nearly experiencing a CO2 shortage that would have shut us down) if it would be possible to substitute N2 for CO2 in a shielding gas mix. We currently use Aragon & CO2. We weld mostly A36 Plate and A500 tube.
Is this a bad idea? Why? What...
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I work for a company that uses a lot of structural tube in our product. Recently we had some 4" X 6" X 1/2" A500 Grade B tubing show cracks after welding, a number of these cracks are away from the weld site. I've spent sometime thinking about this, my weld lead (25+ years...
We are analyzing a joint and are uncertain about our method of choice. I've attached an image.
The vertical member is considered fixed at the upper end, we've decide to take a section through the gussets (Section O-O). We've assumed that our moment arm is the distance from the neutral axis of...
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My co-worker and I are working on an analysis that includes a steel tube in bending & axial loading. This tube has two threaded holes through one side (to fasten a small piece of rubber). The section of interest for this particular analysis is through the center line of the...
