Welding Technique in Aircraft Construction: Some Practical Hints on the Welding of Steel Tubes

Abstract

WHEN metal parts are exposed to alterations of temperature, their outer dimensions undergo a change. With rising temperatures metals expand, with falling temperatures they contract. If different temperatures exist within one and the same metal member, internal stresses begin to act, causing a deformation of the component and thus setting up internal strains. Cracks, buckling, distortion and shrinkage are the external results of such strains.

Citation

Queitsch, K. (1939), "Welding Technique in Aircraft Construction: Some Practical Hints on the Welding of Steel Tubes", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 11 No. 12, pp. 455-458. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb030584