Remember the 80’s movie, Flashdance? The female lead, Jennifer Beals, was a welder by day in a Pittsburgh steel mill and for many people that was their first glimpse of what a welder did for a living.

Tree Composites is addressing one of offshore construction’s most persistent bottlenecks: welded steel joints. By replacing welding with high-performance wrapped composite joints, the start-up aims to ...

This pole suffered a failure in the welded seam at an overlapping slip splice. A tubular steel transmission pole generally consists of a series of welded assemblies. The pole shafts and arms are ...