The Electron Beam (EB) welding process has gained widespread acceptance in the aerospace industry as an efficient, precise, high quality joining process. Because its optimum performance is realized in a vacuum environment, its use has been limited to welding of fairly small components, where X-ray quality, high strength welds are required with minimal part distortion. Larger components can be welded; however, the equipment and operating costs increase with the correspondingly larger vacuum chambers used to house the parts to be welded.
EB welding of launch vehicles
Elektronenstrahlschweißen von Trägerraketen
SAE Technical Papers ; 1-4
1991
4 Seiten
Conference paper
English
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