Welding of Aluminum for Engineers

The seminar for this season is a condensed and informative one day course that the Eastern Virginia Chapter has arranged with one of the country's foremost authorities on aluminum structures and aluminum welding. This seminar provides the following advantages to you and your employer:

• Our registration fee is only $495 for ASM members. Similar seminars frequently cost twice as much.
• The course is taught by the same instructor who teaches our aluminum structures seminar.
• 8 PDH credits will be awarded to each attendee upon successful completion of the course.
• Proceeds will go toward Eastern Virginia Chapter ASM educational and chapter activities which have included college scholarships, the annual Students' Night, Teachers' Camp sponsorships, and more.

Registration:

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Payment:

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Instructor:

Mr. Randy Kissell, P.E.
The TGB Partnership, Hillsborough NC

Course Overview:

Welding of aluminum is not like welding steel, but is it more difficult or just different? How can trouble be avoided when designing or specifying aluminum welds? These questions will be answered and other topics will be discussed:

• What’s in the new 2014 AWS D1.2 Structural Welding Code – Aluminum
• How to write specifications for aluminum welding
• Aluminum welding processes, including GMAW, GTAW, PAW, stud, and, new to D1.2, friction stir welding (FSW)
• Wrought and cast aluminum base metal alloys, their tempers, and filler alloys
• Designing aluminum fillet, groove, plug, slot, and stud welds
• Designing welded aluminum members for tension, compression, bending, shear, and fatigue
• Qualifying aluminum weld procedure specifications (WPSs)
• Qualifying aluminum welders
• Fabricating aluminum welds, including backing, preheat, edge prep, assembly, tolerances, repairs, cleaning, and post-weld heat treatment
• Minimizing distortion
• Inspecting aluminum welds using visual, dye penetrant, radiographic, and ultrasonic methods

About the Instructor:

Mr. Randy Kissell, P.E., is a senior partner with the TGB Partnership, an engineering firm specializing in aluminum structural design. He is a graduate of Cornell University, with over 38 years of experience designing aluminum structures, including more than 1,000 clear span roofs, some of which have been featured in Civil Engineering and Engineering NewsRecord magazines. He is a co-author of Aluminum Structures, A Guide to Their Specifications and Design, published by John Wiley and now in its 2nd edition.

Mr. Kissell has conducted aluminum design seminars for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) since 2001 and has given presentations at numerous ASCE Structures Congresses and for building code officials, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Federal Highway Administration, and the American Welding Society. He has been a licensed structural engineer and contractor in many states, and is Secretary of the American Welding Society's Aluminum Welding Subcommittee and Aluminum Association’s Engineering Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the American Petroleum Institute’s Aboveground Storage Tank committee, ASTM Light Metals committee, and the Canadian Standards Association Technical Committee on Strength Design in Aluminum.

Who Should Attend:

• Metallographers
• Technicians
• Researchers
• Quality control specialists
• Managers who want to expand their technical knowledge