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Elimination of Overwelding - NSRP Project Workshop

Overwelding is one of the most widespread problems in shipbuilding, causing significant distortion and associated rework costs in lightweight structural applications. In order to combat this problem, modeling and validation testing was performed by the project to determine possible changes to weld sizing design, as well as identify changes to standards which would alleviate the problems which lead to overwelding. This workshop will present the project findings and recommendations for changes to specifications.