Underwater infrastructure, such as pipelines, requires regular inspection and maintenance
including cleaning, welding of defects and valve-turning or hot-stabbing. At the moment …

Underwater humanoid robots (UHRs) have emerged as a significant area of interest in
robotics, with the potential to overcome the limitations of traditional underwater robots and …

Welding technology plays a critical role in materials joining, especially in the manufacture
and maintenance of space stations, ships, and nuclear equipment that operate under …

The underwater welding process used to repair offshore engineering structures involves a
large number of processing parameters that must be selected and strictly controlled to …

Underwater welding offers a wide range of applications in a variety of disciplines. The notion
of underwater welding appeals to many in the naval construction industry since it effectively …

This research work reports the porosity evolution during welding in the overhead position as
a function of depth and working angle between electrode and plate in the underwater wet …

High susceptibility to cold cracking induced by diffusible hydrogen and hydrogen
embrittlement are major obstacles to greater utilization of underwater wet welding for high …

The paper presents research in the field of underwater wet cutting with the use of flux-cored
wires in order to improve the quality and performance. The research has resulted into the …

Underwater wet welding is commonly used in joining pipelines and in underwater
construction. Harmful and hazardous compounds are added to many flux-cored wires for …

Local dry underwater backward median pulse MIG welding (LDU-BMPMIG) was proposed in
this study. The effects of different backward median currents on welding process stability …