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Plasma Stabilization and Control of Titanium Welding

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W15QKN-07-C-0124
Agency Tracking Number: A062-046-1358
Amount: $1,970,770.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: A06-046
Solicitation Number: 2006.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2006
Award Year: 2007
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2007-07-31
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2009-07-31
Small Business Information
P.O. Box 899
Enfield, NH 03748
United States
DUNS: 196519511
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Nabil Elkouh
 President
 (603) 632-4156
 nabil.elkouh@erigo.com
Business Contact
 Wm. Baschnagel
Title: Vice President - Operatio
Phone: (603) 632-4156
Email: bill.baschnagel@erigo.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Welding titanium is becoming increasingly important to the Army, and this trend will accelerate as low-cost titanium becomes available. To facilitate the use of titanium in a growing set of cost-sensitive applications, rapid, reliable, and inexpensive joining processes must be established. For high production rate applications, pulsed gas metal arc welding (P-GMAW) offers such a possibility, although much development work remains to optimize this process for widespread use. During Phase I, Erigo Technologies and its partner American Engineering and Manufacturing (AEM), with the support of Lincoln Electric, developed a new single-pulse P-GMAW waveform for titanium. The waveform development work will be continued in Phase II, with the end goal of producing a set of waveforms that covers most operating conditions for GMAW of titanium. In addition, we will investigate modifications to the shield gas flow of the GMAW torch to eliminate the requirement for a supplemental trailing shield.

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