CLADDING

Cladding

Cladding is the bonding together of dissimilar metals. It is different from fusion welding or gluing as a method to fasten the metals together. Cladding is often achieved by extruding two metals through a die as well as pressing or rolling sheets together under high pressure.

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cladding

Noun

  1. Clothing; clothes.
  2. Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fiber.
  3. a weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building (called siding in the US).

Verb

cladding



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