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Problem - The success of a specific welding design project depends upon the skill of the designer. The designer must have a clear understanding of the service requirements and expected service life of the product being designed. It is the designer's responsibility to develop a product that will properly function under tire service conditions it will encounter.
In addition, the designer must be completely aware of the properties of tire materials involved and how the materials must be treated and handled in fabrication and welding. The design, the materials to be used, and the production procedures are intermediated and must all be considered when designing tire weldment.
Furthermore, the designer must have a clearcut understanding of the fabrication procedures and techniques that may be involved in the production of the weldment. The designer must provide the inspector with guidance to select the class of inspection required and indicate special requirements for specific weld joints.
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Finally, the designer must transmit to the welding shop the exact specifications for each weld by means of welding symbols. And, most importantly, the designer must make sure that every weld joint is accessible to tire welder and can be welded. In short, the success of welding design depends upon two conditions.
The first condition is the designer's knowledge of the welding process; knowledge of what happen during fabrication and how the welded product will react to its service environment. Welding analysis must be conducted to obtain such knowledge. The second condition is effective use of the existing knowledge and available information.
An optimal welding design and fabrication must be reached through proper handling of the information. The solution to tire welding design problems may lie with tire use of computers. Mainframe computers, or supercomputers, may be necessary to conduct simulations of the welding process or service behaviour of the finished product. Technical knowledge can be systematically established through mathematical modeling, of course, with experimental verifications.
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Microcomputers or minicomputers are adequate for information management and effective use of the information. Computer aided welding design, expert systems' for computer aided welding manufacturing and diagnostic computer software for in process control are all essential to a successful welding production, i.e., production quantity, production quality and production innovation.
As we look back to the trends in engineering design, the computer solution in welding design closely follows the steps of overall design evolution. In order to keep welding design current with other engineering design disciplines, a great deal of effort must be exerted to bring today's and tomorrow's technology into design classes at educational institutions and to design groups in companies associated with welding fabrication.
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