Encyclopedia > Tungsten inert gas welding

  Article Content

Tungsten inert gas welding

Tungsten inert gas welding or TIG is also known as gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) or HELIARC, a trade name of Linde.

A tungsten electrode protected by a shielding gas is used to create an arc, a filler rod is then melted by the arc to join the metals.

Unlike most other types of arc welding, the tungsten electrode is not used up by TIG welding.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
North Lindenhurst, New York

... area is covered with water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there are 11,767 people, 3,808 households, and 2,974 families residing in the town. The population ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 32.7 ms