Engineering Services
We are an engineering-savvy brazer offering collaborative services that cover metallurgy and braze-joint designs to …
Brazing Applications Above 1000 C
For brazing applications above over 1000° C, finding a braze alloy, or even base materials, that will withstand …
Engineering & Design
The Altair team is unmatched in the design, development, and manufacturing of products for the medical, security, …
Vacuum Aluminum Brazing 101
A high quality braze joint using vacuum aluminum brazing requires excellent material preperation, cleanliness and …
Advantages of Brazing Complex Geometries
When fabricating complex geometries, whether it’s by die casting, e-beam welding, or 5- axis machining, there can be …
Wetting Braze Flow and Filler Spreading
The term “wetting” is commonly used to describe the flow of braze alloy or braze filler across a surface when …
Linear Thermal Expansion Calculation – CTE
A sample calculation using CTE (Coefficient of Thermal Expansion) for determining the nominal dimensions when …
Thermal Expansion When Brazing
For most materials (copper, stainless,etc.) expansion varies from four to twenty thousandths of an inch of growth per …
How To Read A Phase Diagram
Phase diagrams are a great tool for the Brazing Engineer; the binary phase diagram is an invaluable tool for why a …