WELD 2242 - Submerged Arc and Metal-Cored Welding

3.0 Credits

Students learn automatic submerged arc welding in the flat position, manual submerged arc welding in the horizontal position, and metal-cored welding of flat and horizontal fillet and groove welds using semiautomatic equipment.

Prerequisites: (1) WELD 2200

Lecture Hours: 2.0
Lab Hours: 3.0
Internship Hours: 0.0
Clinical or Practicum Hours: 0.0

Course Objectives

Properly and safely set up automatic and semi-automatic Submerged Arc Welding, and Gas Metal Arc Welding equipment.
Demonstrate knowledge of electrodes, shielding gasses and fluxes used in the SAW and MCOR processes.
Use automatic and semi-automatic SAW, and GMAW equipment to safely produce welds on carbon steel using the SAW and MCOR processes.
Produce quality single-pass fillet welds in the flat and horizontal positions
Produce quality multi-pass fillet welds in the flat and horizontal positions.
Produce quality multi-pass groove welds in the flat and horizontal positions
Pass guided bend and fillet weld break tests.

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