GHTA welding experiments under simulated space environment in flying laboratory

Yosetsu Gakkai Ronbunshu/Quarterly Journal of the Japan Welding Society

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 228-235

  Suita, Yoshikazu ^a   Tsukuda, Yoshiyuki ^a   Terajima, Noboru ^a   Hatta, Takashi ^a   Kohno, Teppei ^a   Inokuma, Rikiya ^a   Kawata, Kenji ^a   Ohji, Takayoshi ^b   Nishikawa, Hiroshi ^b   Yoshida, Kazuhiro ^b   Masubuchi, Koichi ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; PLATE METAL; SPOT WELDING; STAINLESS STEEL; STEEL PIPE; WELDING ELECTRODES;

GAS HOLLOW TUNGSTEN ARC (GHTA) WELDING; GAS TUNGSTEN ARC (GTA) WELDING;

GAS METAL ARC WELDING;

EID: 6744247122     PISSN: 02884771     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.2207/qjjws.18.228     Document Type: Article

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