welding steel and aluminum
welding steel and aluminum
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Hi,
Can someone tell me if it is possible to weld an aluminum plate (0.38 thk) to a steel structure? Or, would it have to be bolted. This is not for a production environment, only for a one-off design.
thanks
Can someone tell me if it is possible to weld an aluminum plate (0.38 thk) to a steel structure? Or, would it have to be bolted. This is not for a production environment, only for a one-off design.
thanks





RE: welding steel and aluminum
RE: welding steel and aluminum
More information:
http://www.nitrometall.se/english.html
RE: welding steel and aluminum
RE: welding steel and aluminum
RE: welding steel and aluminum
I wish I could find the project justification somewhere to use it!
Hmmm...
RE: welding steel and aluminum
There is corrosion, but the speed is reduced greatly and as good as zero due to protective aluminium oxide in the interface between the materials. Due the solid bonding it is not possible for elctrolyte to penetrate this oxide.
Much better explained in this old article:
http://www.dynamicmaterials.com/clad/pdf/explosion_bonded_metals_for_marine%20Structures.pdf
RE: welding steel and aluminum
RE: welding steel and aluminum
RE: welding steel and aluminum
Do you mean that you use the anodes to protect the superstructure, or do you mean the underwater-hull mounted anodes?
Jusy curious.
RE: welding steel and aluminum
I think you can actual weld Al/Steel together if you do it right. If I remember correctly, they had a sample of it in my welding engineer class. You might want to write an email to katrin.lehmann@slv-bb.de, she is pretty good with material science.
DWolff