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Welcome to the Edmonton Chapter page. Thank you for visiting our page, and on behalf of the Chapter we hope to see you at one of our events.
The Chapter centers itself in the city of Edmonton and includes the surrounding communities of Sherwood Park, Spruce Grove, Fort Saskatchewan and Leduc among others.Ìý Almost every nearby community has industrial parks and construction sites that employ many in the welding industry.Ìý Much of the welding fabrication work supports the oil and gas exploration and development projects taking place in Northern Alberta, along with structural fabrication for plant site modules and commercial buildings.Ìý Edmonton also has the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) offering engineering technology programs and apprenticeship training, the University of Alberta with the Canadian Centre of Welding and Joining, and Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF).Ìý
The Chapter has been in the region beginning with the Welding Institute of Canada (WIC) over thirty years ago and part of the CWB Association for nearly the past twenty years. We have over 5000 CWB Association members in the region. The growth of the CWB Association has been reflective within the Edmonton Chapter, and we intend to offer our members and non-members alike educational and networking opportunities. The Chapter plans on dinner meetings, usually at the University of Alberta Faculty Club monthly from January to May. We also like to have a site tour for either the fall or spring trying to avoid the early or late winter storms that are part of seasonal living in Edmonton! We also plan joint meetings with our fellow technical societies like AWS and ASM, among others, in hosting mutually interesting topics.Ìý We usually charge $30.00 for members and $35.00 for non-members.
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Chapter Executives:
Gentry Wood- Chair
Steve Borle- Past Chair
Ata Kamyabi- Vice Chair
Nairn Barnes- Treasurer
Mitchell Grams- Administrator
Syed Alam- Publicity Chair
HEAT TRANSFER EFFECTS DURING WELDING AND REPAIR OF AN ORBITAL WELDING GANTRY
October 25th, 2017
Faculty Club, 11435 Saskatchewan Dr. NW, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G9
Presented By: Yi Lu and Syed Alam
The recipients of CWA Edmonton Chapter Graduate and Undergraduate Awards will present their work with the Canadian Centre Welding and Joining (CCWJ) at the University of Alberta.
Yi Lu (Louie) will describe the heat transfer during welding in a new and comprehensive way. The approach he proposes is fast, inexpensive, and reliable, and is based on formulas representing the most important welding parameters. Important metallurgical outputs like the cooling rate, which is essential in determining the strength and toughness of the weld, can be predicted using this method. Louie’s methodology is also able to determine the size of the weld and heat affected zone. The size of clad beads will be discussed as a case study.
Louie is in the second year of his MSc. in welding engineering on the topic of mathematical modeling of welding phenomena. Before coming to Alberta in 2015, he obtained his BSc. in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University, the premier university of China. The presentation is appropriate for anyone interested in the flow of heat during welding including welders and engineers.
Syed Alam will discuss his summer internship working on the repair of an orbital welding system at the CCWJ. Syed will discuss briefly the applications of the technology, the configuration of the system used, and the challenges faced in commissioning the system. Syed is in his final year of a BSc. in Chemical Engineering at the UofA.
The cost is $30.00 Members, $35.00 Non-Members, $10.00 Student Members and $15.00 Student Non-Members. All members of ASM, ASME, AWS, CWA, NACE, and SME will be charged as members.Ìý
Robotic Welding – How to adapt to real life conditions – Available technologies
May 16th, 2017
Faculty Club, 11435 Saskatchewan Dr NW, Edmonton
Robotics used to be applicable almost exclusively to repeat parts (hence the major use in automotive industry). It is no longer the case. Several tools have been developed to help users apply robotics to one-off parts, to deal with imperfect part fit-up and to allow higher tolerances to the automated processes. Some of those software/hardware tools have been around for quite a long time while others have only been released recently. This presentation gives an overview of those tools that are available today to help the industry deal with real life conditions and how simplified offline programming, combined with seam finding, seam tracking, and adaptive welding can be used together to apply robotics successfully to single parts. As automation is omnipresent in the welding industry, this presentation is of interest to welding technologists, manufacturing engineers & production staff.
The cost is $30.00 Members, $35.00 Non-Members, $10.00 Student Members and $15.00 Student Non-Members. All members of ASM, ASME, AWS, CWA, NACE, and SME will be charged as members.
Underwater Projects – An Overview
March 21, 2017
Faculty Club, 11435 Saskatchewan Dr NW, Edmonton
This presentation is an all picture slide show, providing an overview of underwater water repair projects with emphasis on underwater wet welding. It introduces the audience to hyperbaric wet and dry welding, as well as top site welding as repair techniques on ocean going vessels and maritime underwater structures.
Uwe Aschemeier is a German born and educated Welding Engineer who has evolved through the metals industry by studying mechanical engineering and welding engineering at various advanced education institutions in Germany.
The cost is $30.00 Members, $35.00 Non-Members, $10.00 Student Members and $15.00 Student Non-Members. All members of ASM, ASME, AWS, CWA, NACE, and SME will be charged as members.
Comparative Review of Welding Standards followed around the World: CSA vs AWS & ISO
February 21st, 2017 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
ÒõAPPµ¼º½ Nisku Learning Centre, 206 - 19th Avenue, Nisku Industrial Park
Presented by Cristian Zanfir, Assistant Manager Standards, ÒõAPPµ¼º½
The purpose of this presentation is to provide the audience with a comparative review of these Standards’ requirements and an overview of their similarities and differences. While in Canada and US welding requirements are driven by the building code and product standards, in Europe the welding requirements are driven by legislation and product standards. This presentation will describe the building code and legislation requirements. Also, some examples will be given to show the requirements for qualification of welding personnel and welding procedures as outlined in these standards.
Cost: $30.00 Members, $35.00 Non-Members, $10.00 Student Members and $15.00 Student Non-Members. (All members of ASM, ASME, AWS, CWA, NACE, and SME will be charged as members)
Register be emailing edmonton@cwamembers.or or .
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