thermal upsetting
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Thermal Upsetting. By Dennis Hanson Welding Student Lake Washington Institute of Technology. Introduction. Thermal Upsetting is the official term to cover: Flame/heat bending Flame/heat straightening. History. First documented by Joseph Holt, Seattle blacksmith - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Thermal UpsettingBy Dennis Hanson
Welding StudentLake Washington Institute of Technology
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Introduction
Thermal Upsetting is the official term to cover:• Flame/heat bending• Flame/heat straightening
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History
• First documented by Joseph Holt, Seattle blacksmith• Was more of an art than a science until
recently• Is still very much an art
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Why its important
Save time and money (and time IS money…)• Accomplish jobs that are not possible in any other way• Salvage projects that would otherwise be scrapped• Keep jobs on track by using equipment on hand
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Uses• For…
• Straightening• Damaged structures• Damaged equipment• Out of spec parts/weldments
• Bending • Ship building• Bridge Building• Truck trailers and railroad cars• Whatever!
• On…• steel• nickel• copper• brass• aluminum• titanium
Crane straightened by Casper, Phillips & Assoc.
in Panama
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Heat Sources
• Flame• OF welding torch• OF cutting torch• OF Rosebud• Other gas torch
• Welding• Induction heater• Laser• Friction (shrinking disk)
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How it works - Intro• There is a lot of bad information
about thermal upsetting on the internet.• Thermal upsetting depends on
the heated metal being restrained in some way.• It’s all about thickening or
lengthening the metal in one direction and shortening it in another direction.
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How it works – Bar experiment
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How it works – Bar experiment
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How it works – Bar experiment
101 mm - No Change
101 mm - No Change
100.78 mm – Shrank a little bit
in length and increased 0.12 mm in width99.94 mm –
Shrank 1.06 mm and increased 0.7
mm in width
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Heating patterns
• Heating patterns are critical to getting the results you want
• Developed by Holt and still in use today• There are heating patterns already
developed for standard stock like angle iron, I-beams, channel, etc.
• The key to heating patterns is that they use the weldment itself to restrain the heated metal so that it thickens and then contracts in the direction you need.
• We will look at angle iron as an example
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Heating patterns – Angle Iron
• “Easy Way” vs. “Hard Way• What has to give when you bend angle iron?• So what heating pattern do you use?• Let’s use a piece of cardboard to think about this…
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Heating patterns – Angle Iron
Angle iron is straight Mark a triangle Bend after heat
treating
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Resources and References Used• Find this slide deck at http://www.firedupwelding.com/Blog.html• Induction Heating: http://www.efd-induction.com/en/Applications/Straightening.aspx• Holt Steel: http://www.holtsteel.com/about_us• U.S. Coast Guard whitepaper: www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=AD0710521• Dan R. Dalton, Inc.: http://danrdaltoninc.com/?page_id=6• Casper Phillips: http://www.casperphillips.com/flame_bending_and_straightening.htm• Flame On Inc.: http://www.flameoninc.com/process.html• ISI International Straightening: http://steelstraightening.com/about/• Ohio DOT: http://www.dot.state.oh.us/engineering/OTEC/2010%20Presentations/51B-Mesler.pdf• Federal Highway Administration: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/steel/01.cfm• Flame Straightening Technology For Welders, by John P. Stewart (in the LWIT library)• The Linde Group: http://
www.holox.com/international/web/lg/us/likelgus30.nsf/docbyalias/ind_mv_auto5
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Conclusion
What’s in your toolbox?