INTRODUCTION:-(WELDING)

Welding process can be defined

as the process of metallurgically
joining two pieces Of metals
by fusing to produce essentially
a single piece of the metal .
UNDER WATER WELDING
• The first ever underwater was carried out
by British Admiralty –Dockyard for sealing
leaking ship rivets below the water line .

• Underwater welding is an important tool

for underwater fabrication works.

•In 1946, special waterproof electrodes were

developed in Holland by ‘Van der Willingen’.
 DRY WELDING
 Dry hyperbaric welding involves the weld being performed
at raised pressure in a chamber filled with a gas mixture
Sealed around the structure being welded.

 Most arc welding processes such as shielded metal arc welding

(SMAW), flux-cored arc welding (FCAW), gas tungsten arc
Welding (GTAW),gas metal arc welding (GMAW), plasma arc
Welding (PAW), could be operated at hyperbaric pressures ,
but all suffer as the pressure increases. Gas tungsten arc
welding is most commonly used.