Engineering under protective atmospheres or in vacuum allows the production of materials and components, where the absence of oxygen is an essential requirement for a successful processing. Ideally, joining or coating of (and with) metallic materials needs oxide free material surfaces, in order to achieve durable joints or coatings. Using the established technology of brazing in controlled atmosphere, fundamental physical mechanisms for deoxidation of metal surfaces are presented and the role of oxygen and water residue in the process atmosphere is analyzed. Furthermore, the doping of gases with monosilane for generating virtually oxygen-free process atmospheres is introduced and its advantages for an oxygen-free production are discussed.
Continuous process brazing in shielding-gas furnaces is tailor-made for manufacturing mass production components by means of brazing technology. Which brazing tasks can actually be carried out by a shielding-gas furnace, depend on many ancillary conditions. In particular these are, besides the component size and joint geometry, the base materials and brazing filler metals as well as the material specific process parameters which are to be maintained in a continuous furnace in order that a process assured brazing can be guaranteed. In this context, the activation of the component's surfaces play a central role for wetting with the braze melt. Within the scope of this contribution, the variables and ancillary conditions concerning this matter are presented and discussed using the brazing process on stainless steels as an example.
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