JOINING LARGE STRUCTURES USING LOCALIZED INDUCTION HEATING

摘要

The processing time and energy efficiency of metal joining operations is improved, for example, by heating the structure in the vicinity of the braze joint in an induction heating press where energy goes primarily to heating the workpieces rather than to heating the tooling or being lost to the environment. Uniform localized heating at the bondline is achieved without heating the entire workpiece by using a narrow, "smart" susceptor liner in the dies centered on the bondline.