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Clad Metal - Presentation

The document discusses clad metal materials and their explosion welding process. It provides an overview of typical base and cladding metals, applications, industries served, and shipboard uses. Explosion welding allows dissimilar metals to be joined without melting to form a continuous bond offering corrosion resistance and weight reduction for ship components.

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DYNAMIC MATERIALS

Clad Metal
Boulder, CO USA

Mega Rust
August 2008
Tom Morey

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TOPICS
• Overview
• Metals Typically Clad
• Product Applications and Industries
Served
• Cladding Process Overviews
• Shipboard Applications

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Bi-Metal Transition Joints
Pressure Vessel Heads

Clad Products
Detaclad® Plate

Heat ExchangerTube
Sheet Blanks Pressure Vessel Cylinders

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Metals Typically Clad
• Cladding Metals • Base Metals
– Titanium – Carbon Steel
– Zirconium – Alloy Steel
– Tantalum – Stainless steel
– Aluminum – Aluminum
– Stainless Steel – Titanium
– Copper Alloys
– Nickel Alloys

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Equipment
Fabricated from
Detaclad® Plate

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Clad Equipment

• Pressure Vessels
• Heat exchanger Tubesheets
• Bimetallic Welding Transition Joints
• Bimetallic Anodes and Cathodes
• Corrosion and/or Wear Resistant
Surfaces

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Industries Served with Explosive Welded Clad
• Shipboard and Marine
• Refineries
• Chemical Process
• Hydrometallurgy Ore
Processing
• Power Plants
• Oil and Gas Production
• Primary Metal Melting
• Electrochemical
• HVAC Equipment
• Desalinization
Shell Auger Tension Leg Platform

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Typical Bondzone

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Explosion Cladding is a Cold
Process
• No bulk heating of the metals
• No diffusion, intermelting, or HAZ
• Wrought mechanical properties maintained
• Parent metal heat treatment not affected
• Forms a continuous metallurgical bond
• Can join virtually any metal combination

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Explosion Cladding Process

• Ideal for manufacture of large flat plates


• Manufacturing Parameters vs. Product Quality
are Well Understood
• Frequency of bonding problems <0.005% of area
• Bond strengths typically >60,000 psi for stainless
and Ni alloys, >10,000 psi for aluminums
• Three major manufacturers worldwide, many
smaller companies

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Cost Savings of Clad

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Shipboard Solutions

• Weight Reduction
• Corrosion Control
• Explosion welded components have
been used in Navy shipboard
installations since 1968
– Bi-Metal Joining Situations
– Wear/Bearing Plates
– Clad pressure containing components

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Bimetal Joints

• PROBLEM: Mechanical joints between


dissimilar metals exhibit Crevice and
Galvanic corrosion
• SOLUTION: Explosion welded transition
joints
– Eliminate the crevice
– Make Corrosion Control Possible

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Bimetal Transition Joints

Since 1968 – Many types of Explosion


Welded Assemblies used on Navy ships

•Aluminum/Steel •Titanium/Steel
•Aluminum/Titanium •Aluminum/CRES
•Aluminum/Cu Ni •Inconel/Steel
•Aluminum/Brass •Bronze/Steel

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Aluminum-Steel STJ

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DD963 Class

• Al-Steel Bimetal welding bars


• RAST track support posts, Titanium-
Aluminum
• Steel tie downs for aluminum decks
• Al to Cu-Ni drain pipe couplings

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Aluminum-Titanium RAST Post Aluminum/Cu-Ni
Pipe Coupling

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CG47 Class

• Al-Steel Bimetal welding bars


• Steel tie downs for aluminum decks
• Al-CRES Door Hinges
• Al-Copper Nickel Vent Screen Frames
• Cu-Ni Drains in Aluminum Decks
• Bronze/Steel Gun Bearing Plates

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Aluminum-Steel Tie Downs

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DDG51 Class Destroyer

• Bimetal Electrical Boxes + Lights

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Aircraft Carriers

• Steel tie downs for aluminum elevators


• Catapult Support Rails (pre Fat Cat),
Inconel/Steel
• Catapult base plates, Inconel/Steel
• Al-Steel Bimetal welding bars
• Clad pressure vessels, stainless &
Monel / Steel

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USCG Ships

• Al-Steel, high strength, light weight


Bimetal welding bars
• Ti Studs for welding to Aluminum Cutter
Hulls

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Shipboard Applications

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Future Shipboard Applications
• Solutions for bi-metal attachments – Ti, Al, CRES
– Pumps
– Piping
– Topside electrical devices
– Doors
– Hulls
– Decks
– Bulkheads
• CRA Tank Linings

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Conclusions

• Explosion welded metals offer unique


ship design options
• Explosion welded metals offer corrosion
resistance and weight reduction
• Explosion welded metals offer lower
maintenance costs

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