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Articles tagged with "wall"

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	Increasing productivity on your cutoff saw: Considerations when sawing round and square tubing By: Cliff Dixon, Contributing Writer All of the components of a tube cutting job—the workpiece, the blade, the saw, and the cutting fluid included—have to work together optimally to maximize your productivity. Publish date: April 24, 2001 Tech cell: Sawing
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	Band saw cutting of tube and pipe: Tips for blade selection and machine settings By: Cliff Dixon, Contributing Writer Production quantities of cut tube and pipe can be produced economically with a band saw. However, the choice of which blade to use is very important in maintaining a low cost per cut. Publish date: February 19, 2001 Tech cell: Sawing
	Take the old with the new - Selecting saw blades with new technologies in mind By: Dave Byrley, Contributing Writer New methods for cutting tube and pipe have been introduced to welding shops in the last few years—methods designed not only to cut metal, but also to cut costs. Publish date: May 29, 2003 Tech cell: Sawing
	Cutting to the chase Sawing structural and architectural tubing: Sawing structural and architectural tubing By: David McCorry, Contributing Writer This article examines common fabrication processes for structural and architectural tube. It specifically focuses on cutting, sawing, miter cutting, bundle sawing, and cambering. Publish date: December 13, 2001 Tech cell: Sawing
	Tube Hydroforming Design Flexibility—Part I By: Gary Morphy, Contributing Writer Publish date: May 16, 2002 Tech cell: Hydroforming
	Using hydroforming aluminum components versus steel stampings: The contender gains points, but the champion is still in the fight By: Daniel Hunter, Contributing Writer This article examines two transitions that are occurring in the automotive industry—the change from stamping to hydroforming, and the substitution of aluminum where steel was used previously. Publish date: November 15, 2001 Tech cell: Hydroforming
	Pressure-sequence and high-pressure hydroforming: Knowing the processes can mean boosting profits By: Gary Morphy, Contributing Writer Pressure-sequence hydroforming can form complex parts as well as forming most ductile metals, including high-strength, low-alloy, and stainless steels with sharper corners, thick-walled tube, and other difficult features. Publish date: February 19, 2001 Tech cell: Hydroforming
	Tube Hydroforming Design Flexibility—Part III By: Gary Morphy, Contributing Writer Publish date: April 24, 2003 Tech cell: Hydroforming
	Examining the effects of push assist on the formability of aluminum tubes By: Ghafoor Khodayari Ph.D., and Michael Worswick, Ph.D., Contributing Writers It is well-known that tube has become an important material for hydroforming hollow components. The increasing complexity of product structures, particularly in the automotive industry, often requires one or more forming operations before a tube actually is hydroformed. Prebending is one of these forming processes used to prepare tubes for the so-called prebent tube hydroforming. Publish date: July 10, 2003 Tech cell: Hydroforming
	Tier 1 supplier builds four-stage competitive strategy By: Eric Lundin, Editor, TPJ-The Tube & Pipe Journal� F & P Manufacturing Inc., a tier-one automotive components supplier, focused on four areas when it developed a hydroforming line for manufacturing Honda Accord engine cradles. These areas were eliminating end scrap, decoupling the bending machines from the manufacturing line, reducing cycle time, and palletizing parts. Publish date: July 24, 2003 Tech cell: Hydroforming
	Tube Hydroforming Design Flexibility—Part IV By: Gary Morphy, Contributing Writer Publish date: October 23, 2003 Tech cell: Hydroforming
	Handling metal stamping wastes: Protecting the environment - - and your business By: Rich Bravieri, Contributing Writer Metal stamping companies are required to comply with a number of regulations relating to the collection, transport, treatment, and disposal of the wastes they generate. As a result, each company must learn which materials are classfied as hazardous and how to comply with detailed regulations. Publish date: February 19, 2001 Tech cell: Materials Handling
	The importance of the n value in sheet forming By: Taylan Altan, Contributing Writer Strain hardening is represented by the exponent n in the flow stress equation, which approximates the relation between true stress and true strain during plastic deformation of a metal. The constant n plays a crucial role in sheet metal forming, and this brief article describes its effects. Publish date: October 11, 2001 Tech cell: Press Technology
	Die geometry for embossing and stretching By: Art Hedrick, Contributing Writer Stretching or embossing, not to be confused with drawing, is the process in which the part's geometry is obtained by stretching the metal into a forming cavity. Publish date: August 28, 2003 Tech cell: Tool and Die
	Orbital welding for space program applications: Producing welds that withstand the rigors of deep space By: Mike Serafin, Contributing Writer Welding applications in the aerospace industries demand high precision, a quality that can be entirely as low as possible. Automatic orbital welding is being used to help meet these requirements. Publish date: February 19, 2001 Tech cell: Tube and Pipe Fabrication
	Producing holes in tubing: Comparing the piercing and punching methods By: Todd Bryson, Contributing Writer Need to put a hole in a tube? This article provides an overview of tube punching and tube piercing, exploring the different variations of each method and comparing the two methods on cost, safety, and flexibility. Publish date: May 15, 2003 Tech cell: Tube and Pipe Fabrication
	The wrinkle-wiper for tube bends: How to choose and use wiper dies By: Teresa Fisher, Contributing Writer A wiper die is a piece of tooling used in tube bending that helps keep the bend from wrinkling. While there are many reasons and ways to use a wiper die in a tube bending maching, you should also know what types are available, their differences, and how to choose the right one for your application. Publish date: September 25, 2003 Tech cell: Tube and Pipe Fabrication
	Troubleshooting compression bending By: Marsha Blasengame, Contributing Writer You can achieve nearly trouble-free bending by being aware of the causes of typical compression bending problems and by correctly operating and maintaining the compression bender. Publish date: January 13, 2004 Tech cell: Tube and Pipe Fabrication
	Low-tech system mechanizes pipe welding: Backing device allows GMAW on open root By: Helmut Hahn, Contributing Writer Welding technology has changed dramatically over the last few decades. Although skilled welders always will be needed in manufacturing, mechanical welding devices can provide improvements over manual welding in terms of repeatability and throughput. Publish date: March 11, 2004 Tech cell: Tube and Pipe Fabrication
	Inline gauge control in welded tube production: Reducing conversion losses By: W.B. "Bud" Graham, Contributing Writer Reducing scrap when converting strip to finished tube is a huge step in bettering your bottom line. Publish date: July 26, 2001 Tech cell: Tube and Pipe Production
	Solving the mysteries of the fin pass—Part 2 By: W.B. "Bud" Graham Editor's Note: This article is the second part of a two-part series about fin passes. Part I, which appeared in the March issue, discussed their location, what they do, and how they do it. Part II focuses on troubleshooting. Publish date: May 15, 2003 Tech cell: Tube and Pipe Production
	Minimizing wall thickness variation in seamless tubing By: Wynn H. Kearns, Contributing Writer All mechanical steel tubing has some amount of wall thickness variation. Wall variation in welded tubing results from the strip manufacturing and tube welding processes. Seamless tube, which is created from a hot billet of solid steel, has wall variation that results from tooling wear, bearing and shaft variation, and normal hot-process variation. The wall thickness in seamless tubing varies in the cross section and along the tube's length. Publish date: August 28, 2003 Tech cell: Tube and Pipe Production
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	Washington women weld at the 'Y': Students learn by doing in their community By: Bob Hollingsworth, Contributing Writer Publish date: August 28, 2003 Tech cell: Art and Sculpture