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Hot gas welding, also known as hot air welding, is a plastic welding technique using heat. A specially designed heat gun, called a hot air welder, produces a jet of hot air that softens both the parts to be joined and a plastic filler rod, all of which must be of the same or a very similar plastic. (Welding PVC to acrylic is an exception to ...
Spin welding creates a clean and sound weld joint that requires little post processing. [3] Due to this most parts being welded are in the final stages of production, or are in final assembly. The first known application of spin welding was in the assembly of compasses, however spin welding has become used in a wide variety of products.
The automotive industry makes large scale use of implant induction welding for the manufacture of large plastic items such as bumpers, plastic body panels, and fuel tanks. [7] Manufacturing costs of components with complex geometries are brought down by manufacturing the parts in separate pieces, to be assembled later using induction welding. [8]
The materials to be welded experience similar vibrations to those in plunge welding but shorter in time. [3] Hold force to the newly welded region is provided by previously welded section that has come out of the tooling and cooled down. [1] Scan welding is a type of continuous ultrasonic welding in which case large plates or sheets can be ...
The heat generated during welding thermoplastic composite, induces residual stresses in the joint. These stresses can greatly reduce the strength and performance of the part. Upon cooling from welding the matrix and fibers will have different coefficients of thermal expansion, which introduces the residual stress.
Vibration welding is often used for larger applications where the parts to be joined have relatively flat seams, although the process can accommodate some out of plane curvature. Recently, the automotive industry has made extensive use of the process to produce parts like manifolds and lighting assemblies whose complex geometries prevent single ...
Radio-frequency welding, also known as dielectric welding and high-frequency welding, is a plastic welding process that utilizes high-frequency electric fields to induce heating and melting of thermoplastic base materials. [1] The electric field is applied by a pair of electrodes after the parts being joined are clamped together.
PMMA can be joined using cyanoacrylate cement (commonly known as superglue), with heat (welding), or by using chlorinated solvents such as dichloromethane or trichloromethane [25] (chloroform) to dissolve the plastic at the joint, which then fuses and sets, forming an almost invisible weld. Scratches may easily be removed by polishing or by ...