AWS Professional Program and Poster Session

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Monday - Wednesday, November 16-18, 2009

The AWS Professional Program will be an important part of the 2009 FABTECH International & AWS Welding Show. Abstracts are peer-reviewed by the AWS Technical Papers Committee.

3-day Professional Program
Member of AWS, FMA, SME, NAM, or PMA: $225
Nonmember: $360 (Code W34)

3-day Student Professional Program
Member of AWS, FMA, SME, NAM, or PMA: $75
Nonmember: $90 (Code W35)

1-day Professional Program
(Monday [W31], Tuesday [W32] or Wednesday [W33] only) Member of AWS, FMA, SME, NAM, or PMA: $150
Nonmember: $285

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For questions, please contact Martica Ventura via email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or by phone at 800-443-9353, ext. 224.


1 & 2 | Sessions 3 & 4 | 5 & 6 | 7 & 8 | 9 & 10 | 11 & 12 | Poster Session

Program Events Session 3 (Room N139)

  • Optimizing Corrosion Performance of Welds
  • A 1:30 PM
  • Andrew Stockdale and John DuPont; Lehigh University
  • Loading, Heat Treatment and Welding Parameters Influence on Wear Resistance
  • B 2:00 PM
  • Estela S. Surian, Agustin Gualco, Hernan Gabriel Svoboda and Luis Alberto de Vedia
  • Development of a Chromium-Free Ni-Base Consumable for Joining Stainless Steel
  • C 2:30 PM
  • Jeffrey Sowards, Boian T. Alexandrov, Dong Liang, Gerald S. Frankel and John Lippold; The Ohio State University
  • Gas Tungsten Arc Welding of Titanium: Complex Fluoride-Containing Flux Pastes and Flux Cored Wires
  • D 3:00 PM
  • Christine Hillier, Michael Liu and Stephen Liu; Colorado School of Mines
  • In-situ Thermite Welding of Boiler Tubing
  • E 3:30 PM
  • John Nickell, Stephen Liu and Kent Coleman; Colorado School of Mines
  • Magnetic Stirring of High Chromium Nickel Based Weld Metals
  • F 4:00 PM
  • Steve McCracken, Suresh Babu, Dave Farson, Yong Chae Lin and Xinghua Yu; Electric Power Research Institute
  • Microstructure Control in HSLA Steel Welds
  • G 4:30 PM
  • Boian T. Alexandrov and John C. Lippold; The Ohio State University

Program Events Session 4 (Room N136)

  • Laser Hybrid Welding/Brazing of Al to Ti Alloys with Filler Wire
  • A 1:30 PM
  • Liqun Li, Shuhai Chen, YanBin Chen and Norman Zhou; Centre for Advanced Materials Joining, University of Waterloo and Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Laser Welding of Open Root Thin Foil Materials for Producing Lattice Structures
  • B 2:00 PM
  • Andrew Deceuster, Chunbo Zhangand Leijun Li; Utah State University
  • Energy Transfer in Laser Spot Welding - Effect of Joint Geometry
  • C 2:30 PM
  • Charles V. Robino, Jerome T. Norris and Gerald A. Knorovsky; Sandia National Laboratories
  • The Use of Filler Metal Shims to Improve Electron Beam Weldability
  • D 3:00 PM
  • John Rugh, Gary LaFlamme and Daniel Nowak; PTR-Precision Technologies, Inc.
  • Fiber Laser Beam Oscillation Techniques for Spiking Suppression
  • E 3:30 PM
  • Dave Farson, Matt Reiter and Junho Cho; The Ohio State University
  • Bead Geometry Control for Repair of Directionally Soldifified Nickel-Based Superalloy
  • G 4:30 PM
  • Andrew Deceuster, Chunbo Zhangand Leijun Li; Utah State University
  • Comparison of High Deposition Rate Laser Cladding with Yb Fiber and Direct Diode Lasers
  • F 4:00 PM
  • Todd A. Palmer, Kenneth Meinert and Keith Parker; Applied Research Laboratory
1 & 2 | Sessions 3 & 4 | 5 & 6 | 7 & 8 | 9 & 10 | 11 & 12 | Poster Session
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