Welding shops for educational facilities, whether they are part of a high school technology program or a technical college, are significantly different from industrial welding operations. In the ...

Byron Bemis, senior research associate at Owens Corning, and his team were asked to design a new generation of components that could be made through laser welding. In fact, with this particular R&D ...

It's often to a designer's advantage to make a rotationally or rotomolded part as simple as possible, then customize it with additional fittings, baffles, flanges, and various attachments using a ...

A closeup of the mesh and weld area shows a natural mismatch in element size and location that makes traditional weld-modeling methods difficult. A newly invented FEA weld element in MSC.Nastran lets ...

A line of machines has been designed for the ultrasonic welding of thermoplastics. The HiQ line features proportional-valve technology, a position-measuring system, a high motion control drive, a ...

How ultrasonic metal welding meets the demand for increasingly advanced battery technologies. In-depth details of how the ultrasonic metal-welding technology works. How ultrasonic metal welding ...

The application of high-frequen-cy switch-mode power-supply (SMPS) technology in welding equipment has yielded many of the same benefits associated with SMPSs in other, nonindustrial designs. By ...