Answer the following questions. 1) What are the other names of a shielded metal arc welding?

1) What are the other names of a shielded metal arc welding?

2) How a weld area may be protected from oxidation?

3) What is the role of the electrode core?

4) Are the weld times slow? Why is it so?

5) What are the characteristics of tungsten arc welding?

6) What method can be used for welding thin materials?

7) Is metal inert gas welding an automatic or semi-automatic welding process?

8) What material is an electrode made of in gas tungsten arc welding?

9) What can increase the arc quality in submerged arc welding?

10) How many arc welding methods do you know? Name them, please.

Decode and memorize the following abbreviations.

MMA, GMAW, GTAW, SMAW, FCAW, SAW, MIG, TIG.

7. Use the information from the text above and your knowledge of welding methods and processes and fill in the following table. Write down theabbreviation expansions and characteristics of different welding methods.

Abbreviation	Abbreviation expansion or name of the method	Characteristics
GTAW
GMAW
SMAW
FCAW
SAW
TIG
MIG
MMA
	stick welding
	plasma arc welding
	atomic hydrogen welding
	carbon arc welding
	electroslag welding
	electrogas welding
	stud arc welding