Welded structures increasingly wide use in resent years, example being their extensive adoption in facilities for studies in high energy physics.
This is attributable to such propertiss of this particular metal as compared with other metal, as being light in weight and possesing high corrosion resistance, as also to its small susceptibility to activation, and its rapid deactivation even upon becoming radioactive.
The piping often used in these structures is thin walled and of small diameter or non-circular sectional figure, which makes it necessary to develop welding techniques adapted to such pipes and automatic welding techniques in particular.
This review is concerned with the promising results obtained in developing a system for one-side butt welding of small size circular or hippodrome cross section pipes using DCSP-TIG process, which ensure deep penetration to actual welding of TRISTAN.
At the National Laboratry High Energy Physics Japan, the TRISTAN; Transposable. Ring Intersecting Storage Acceleratros in Nippon; complex is now under construction.
TRISTAN is designed to accelerate electtron (e
-) and positron (e
+) to 30GeV and to make them collide head-on to each other, and bring about many new exciting phenomena, as to detect the top quark, heavy leptons, Higg's particle and Z
0particle.
TRISTAN requires many innovations in the technology such as a super conducting magnet, ultra high vacuum and so on. One of them, the ultra high vacuum chambers made all of aluminum alloy, to be newly developed, are adapted to TRISTAN Accumulator Ring and Main Ring, and the super conducting magnet made all of aluminum alloy is adapted to TOPAZ Thin Solenoid Magnet of TRISTAN detector.
The automatic welding process for small diameter pipe of aluminum is used in constructing these structures. In TRISTAN Accumulator Ring and Main Ring, the automatic welding equiments have been newly developed for hippotrome cross section aluminum pipes.
In TOPAZ Thin Solenoid Magnet, the automatic welding equipment for small diameter aluminum pipe has been used to weld Helium-cooling pipes.
These techiques were applied in practice to weld the assembly joints of these structures. The welding equipments functioned fully as specified, and the resulting joints were of completely satisfactory quality.
Work is now under way in developing auto matic welding techniques to meet new requirements, and in establishing and simlifying the algorithms governing the welding conditions.
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