Life Cycle Assessment of welding technologies for thick metal plate welds

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 108, Issue , 2015, Pages 46-53

  Sproesser, Gunther ^a   Chang, Ya Ju ^a   Pittner, Andreas ^b   Finkbeiner, Matthias ^a   Rethmeier, Michael ^a,b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arc welding; Laser arc hybrid welding; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); Resource efficiency

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; ELECTRIC ARC WELDING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; EUTROPHICATION; GAS METAL ARC WELDING; GLOBAL WARMING; LIFE CYCLE; PLATE METAL; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); WELDS;

EUTROPHICATION POTENTIALS; GAS METAL ARC WELDING (GMAW); GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL; LASER-ARC HYBRID WELDING; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); PHOTOCHEMICAL OZONE CREATION POTENTIALS; RESOURCE EFFICIENCIES; WELDING TECHNOLOGY;

GAS WELDING;

EID: 84946487883     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.06.121     Document Type: Article

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