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Activating TIG welding for aluminium alloys have been made using SiO2 and multi-component flux AF305 developed by our group respectively to study the effects of activating flux and flux coating method on weld penetration. It has been found that, the weld penetration with AF305 was much deeper than that of SiO2 in both FBTIG welding and A-TIG welding. For both SiO2 and AF305, the weld penetration increased with decreasing of the flux gap (x) and the weld penetrations of A-TIG welding were deeper than that of FBTIG welding. In A-TIG welding with AF305 flux, the weld penetration increased over 3 times compared with that of the conventional TIG welding.
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Ding, F., Yong, H. Study on Activating Tig Welding for Aluminium Alloys. Weld World 49, 22–25 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03266459
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