The flux assisted GTAW or A-TIG process developed at the Paton Welding Institute in 1960.
Despite capable of offering a penetration up to 5–6 mm in a single pass weld, it could not …

A three-dimensional thermal-fluid model is constructed to investigate the effects of
Marangoni convection on the melt-pool formation during the Selective Laser Melting of …

Abstract Flux Bounded Tungsten Inert Gas welding (FBTIG) is considered to be a variant of
Activated Tungsten Inert Gas welding. Though Activated Tungsten Inert Gas welding (ATIG) …

A three-dimensional numerical model is developed to investigate the melting and
solidification process during the Selective Laser Melting (SLM) of IN718. The model utilizes …

Owing to its significant influence in heat and mass transfer, liquid metal flow during
stationary laser welding has been studied for different concentrations of oxygen in the …

Several different interfacial forces affect the free surface of liquid metals during metal
additive manufacturing processes. One of these is thermo-capillarity or the so-called …

Stationary welds of sodium nitrate (NaNO3, a high-Prandtl-number material) and gallium
(Ga, a low-melting-point, low-Prandtl-number material) were made with a defocused CO2 …

In welding, the resulting weld-seam geometry may vary significantly although using constant
process parameters and steels with the same material number. One likely reason for this are …

The use of activating flux in TIG welding process is one of the most notable techniques
which are developed recently. This technique, known as A-TIG welding, increases the …

Purpose For high crack-susceptibility materials such as Inconel 713LC (IN713LC) nickel
alloy, fabricating crack-free components using the laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) …