To successfully control the welding process and to make it appropriate for solid freeform fabrication (SFF), it is necessary to fully understand the influence of the welding parameters and the geometry of the substrate on the resulting weld bead dimensions. Extensive experiments with different welding parameters and complex geometrical features such as edges and corners have been designed and c...

In this research longitudinal shrinkage of two steel plates with identical thickness that are joint together through butt welding and another steel plate with bead welding. This study begins withthe introduction of a model, in which the thermoelastoplastic zones near the weld line is simulated with a thermoelastoplastic flat bar, and full-elastic areas beyond the weld line is simulated with a f...

Abstract The gas tungsten arc welding process is an uncertain nonlinear multivariable system. In order to control the welding process, the nonlinear dynamic relationship between the weld pool geometry reflecting the weld quality and the welding parameters must be developed. A three-dimensional numerical model is developed to investigate the dynamic characteristics of the weld pool geometry when...

This thesis presents a collection of theoretical and experimental investigations into various geometrical aspects of hybrid laser-MIG welding. The work is divided up into four parts; 1. A review of the hybrid laser-MIG welding technique with brief summaries of the three papers which make up the remainder of the thesis. 2. A paper entitled “Fundamental analysis of hybrid laser-MIG welding”. This...

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...

Original scientific paper In a submerged arc welding process, the concept of temperature distribution is essential in order to control the HAZ (heat-affected zone) dimensions and get the required bead size and quality. In this paper, an analytical solution for moving heat source with Gaussian distribution of inside volume of central conicoidal shape is derived. Heat transfer in welded plates du...

Stable weld formation is still one of the goals pursued in variable-polarity plasma arc welding (VPPAW) of aluminium alloys. Basically, VPPAW is divided into three segments: the startup segment, during which the keyhole is generated, the main body segment, during which the keyhole is dynamically maintained, and the terminal segment, during which the keyhole collapses and the crater is ®lled. Ve...

TIG welding is an arc-welding process that produces coalescence of metals by heating them with an arc between a non-consumable tungsten electrode and the base metal 1 . Many delicate components in aircraft and nuclear reactors are TIG welded due to its reliability. Basically, TIG weld quality is strongly characterized by the weld pool geometry as shown in Figure 1. This is because the weld pool...