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US 2008/0277458 A1Published application
Method for the subsequent treatment of welded connections
AssigneeGkss-Forschungszentrum Geestchacht GmbH
InventorsMustafa Kocak, Stefan Riekehr, Waman Vishwanath Vaidya, Frank Gartner, Thorsten Stoltenhoff, Heinrich Kreye, Thomas Klassen
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Abstract
A method for the subsequent treatment of welded connections is shown and described. The object of providing a method for the subsequent treatment of a weld by which the tensile stresses in the region of the weld are reduced is achieved by applying a top layer to the weld on a workpiece by cold-gas spraying.
Claims20
A method for the subsequent treatment of a weld on a workpiece, said method comprising the steps of:
- providing the workpiece with the weld;
- and
- applying a top layer to the surface of the weld by cold-gas spraying.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.