Analysis of Metal Vapor Behavior in Gas Shielded Arc Welding with Consumable Electrode by Imagining Spectroscopy

Robotic Shielded Metal Arc Welding

In this work, the development and validation of a methodology for robotic welding with covered electrodes (SMAW) using a variation of the tool center point (TCP) model is shown. The covered electrode becomes part of the kinematic model of the robot as an additional prismatic joint, whose movement is determined by the electrode consumption or melting rate. This allows programming the trajectory ...

Metal Transfer in Double-Electrode Gas Metal Arc Welding

Gas metal arc welding (GMAW) is the most widely used process for metal joining because of its high productivity and good quality, but analysis shows that the fundamental characteristic restricts conventional GMAW from further increasing the welding productivity. A novel GMAW process, refereed to as double-electrode GMAW or DE-GMAW, thus has been developed to make it possible to increase the mel...

Numerical Analysis of Metal Transfer in Gas Metal Arc Welding

METAL transfer describes the process of the molten metal movement from the electrode tip to the workpiece in gas metal arc welding (GMAW). A better understanding of the metal transfer process is important for improvements in the quality and productivity of welding. While several distinct modes of the metal transfer have been classified,[1] the globular and spray transfer modes have received att...

Real Time Trajectory Generation in Robotic Shielded Metal Arc Welding

Abstract. The Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) is a typical manual process with many dangerous application for the welder (pipe hot tapping, underwater welding, etc.). The process robotization seems to be great for safety associated with the improvement of weld quality and repeatability. This work presents a methodology developed for real time trajectory generation for the robotic SMAW. In thi...

Effective control of gas shielded arc welding fume RR683