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Welding Processes Overview: SMAW, GMAW, GTAW

The document discusses three different welding processes: Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW), Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW), and Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW). SMAW uses a consumable electrode and flux to create an electric arc and weld metals together. GMAW uses a consumable wire electrode and inert gas to form an arc and join metals with added filler. GTAW uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode and inert gas to produce an arc, and is commonly used to weld thin stainless steel, aluminum, and copper alloys requiring greater control.

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Welding Processes Overview: SMAW, GMAW, GTAW

The document discusses three different welding processes: Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW), Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW), and Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW). SMAW uses a consumable electrode and flux to create an electric arc and weld metals together. GMAW uses a consumable wire electrode and inert gas to form an arc and join metals with added filler. GTAW uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode and inert gas to produce an arc, and is commonly used to weld thin stainless steel, aluminum, and copper alloys requiring greater control.

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The Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW)
process is the oldest and most versatile of the welding
processes. It is a manual process in which the welder uses
a consumable metal electrode coated in flux to create the
weld.
An electric current, either Direct Current (DC) or Alternating
Current (AC) from a welding power supply is used to create
an electic arc between the electrode and the metals to be
joined.
The electrode disintegrates adding metal to the weld pool
and the flux coating burns off providing shielding gas for the
weld pool, and a slag coating.
Both of which protect the weld from harmful atmospheric
contamination.
GMAW
Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) is sometimes referred to by
its subtypes Metal Inert Gas (MIG) and Metal Active Gas
(MAG).
This process is when an electric arc forms between a
consumable wire electrode and the work pieces.
The work pieces melt from the heat of the arc and are joined
together with added filler metal from the wire.
Along with the electrode wire, inert shielding gas feeds
through the GMAW gun.
This gas protects the molten metal from the air.
There are four methods of metal transfer in GMAW.
They are called short circuiting, globular, spray and pulsed
spray. Each method has its own unique purposes and
 GTAW
Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) also known by
Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) or HeliArc is a manual or
semi-automatic welding process which uses a non-
consumable tungsten electrode to produce an
electric arc.
 An inert shielding gas is used to protect the weld
pool from the atmosphere. Most often filler metal is
added to the weld manually at the point of the weld
pool, although some welds known as autogenous
welds do not require it.
 GTAW requires a constant current welding power
supply which produces an arc through a column of
ionized gas and metal vapors known as plasma.

GTAW is commonly used to weld thin sections of
stainless steel, aluminum, magnesium, and copper
alloys.

The process grants the welder greater control over the
weld pool than competing processes such as GMAW
and SMAW allowing for stronger, higher quality welds.

GTAW is comparatively more complex and difficult to
master than its competing processes, calling for high
levels of skill to produce consistant high quality welds.

It is also signifigantly slower than other processes.

A related process called Plasma Arc Welding (PAW)
uses a slightly different torch design to produce a more
focused welding arc, and as a result is generally
automated.

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