TRENDS IN DEVELOPMENT OF COMBINED AND HYBRID WELDING AND CLADDING TECHNOLOGIES

摘要

The history of development of the technologies based on the interrelated simultaneous action of two heat energy sources is considered. It is suggested that the combined and hybrid processes should be discriminated. The combined processes involve the action of several sources, which are either identical or of the same type, whereas with the hybrid processes the use is made of the sources differing in their physical characteristics, which impart new technological properties to a process.