Electric Welding

Welding is the process of joining two

pieces of metal or non-metal at faces
rendered plastic or liquid by the
application of heat or pressure or
both.

 Types of welding process

Fusion welding
Non-fusion welding

 Proper selection of the welding

process depends on following factors
-types of metals joined
-cost involved
-nature of products to be fabricated
-techniques of production adopted

 Two common methods

-resistance welding
-Arc welding

Resistance

 Following electric welding processes

are commonly used
-butt welding
-flash welding
-spot welding
-seam welding
-projection welding

Butt welding

 Butt weldingis
aweldingtechnique used to
connect parts which are nearly
parallel and don't overlap. It can be
used to run a processing machine
continuously, as opposed to having
to restart such machine with a new
supply of metals.

Flash welding

 Flashbuttweldingis a type of
resistancewelding without using
any filler metal. It is used for joining
two metal parts together using heat
and force. Each of the two parts to
be joined are clamped against an
electrode, usually a copper alloy.

Spot welding

 spot welding is a process in which

contacting metal surfaces are joined
by the heat obtained from resistance
to electric current.

Seam welding

Projection welding

Arc welding
Arc weldingis a type ofwelding
that uses awelding power supplyto
create anelectric arcbetween an
electrode and the base material to
melt the metals at the welding point.
They can use eitherdirect(DC) or
alternating(AC) current, and
consumable or non-consumable
electrodes

Types of arc welding

Carbon arc welding

Metallic arc welding
Plasma arc welding
Tungsten inert gas welding
Metal inert gas welding

carbon arc welding

Carbon arc welding(CAW) is a
process which produces coalescence
of metals by heating them with
anarcbetween a non
consumablecarbon(graphite)
electrode and the work-piece.

Carbon arc welding

Metal arc welding

 Shieldedmetal arc
welding(SMAW), also known as
manualmetal arc welding(MMA or
MMAW), flux shieldedarc
weldingor informally as
stickwelding, is a manualarc
weldingprocess that uses a
consumable electrode covered with a
flux to lay the weld.

Tungsten arc welding

Gastungsten arc welding(GTAW),
also known as tungsteninert gas
(TIG)welding, is anarc
weldingprocess that uses a nonconsumabletungsten electrode to
produce theweld.

Metal inert gas welding

 Gas metalarcwelding(GMAW),
sometimes referred to by its
subtypesmetal inert
gas(MIG)weldingormetalactive
gas(MAG)welding, is
aweldingprocess in which an
electric arc forms between a
consumable wire electrode and the
workpiecemetal(s), which heats the
workpiecemetal(s), causing them to

Electro-metallurgy
Electrometallurgyis the field
concerned with the processes of
metal electro deposition. There are
four categories of these processes:
Electroextraction, the extraction of
metal from ores. Electrorefining, the
purification of metals.

Electro plating

Electroplating
Electroplatingis a process that
uses electriccurrenttoreduce
dissolved metalcationsso that they
form a coherent metal coating on an
electrode

Electrolytic process
Electrolysisis theprocessby
which ionic substances are
decomposed (broken down) into
simpler substances when an electric
current is passed through them. For
electrolysisto work, the ions must
be free to move. Ions are free to
move when an ionic substance is
dissolved in water or molten
(melted).