From the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Correspondence to Paul A. Friedman, MD, Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905. The editor of Images in Cardiovascular Medicine is Hugh A. McAllister, Jr, MD, Chief, Department of Pathology, St Luke’s Episcopal Hospital and Texas Heart Institute, and Clinical Professor of Pathology, University of Texas Medical School and...

Preliminary notes The paper discusses the problem of effective motion planning for industrial robots. The first part deals with current method for off-line path planning. In the second part is presented the work done with one of the simulation systems with automatic trajectory generation and off-line programming capability. A spot welding process is involved. The practical application of this s...

Undoubtedly, chassis is one of the most important parts of a vehicle. Chassis that today are produced for vehicles are made up of four parts. These parts are jointed together by screwing. Transverse parts are called cross member. This study reviews the stress generated by cyclic laboratory loads in front cross member of Peugeot 405. In this paper the finite element method is used to simulate th...

Resistance spot welding (RSW) includes many variables that can influence the weld properties. The purpose of this study is to develop an analytical model for prediction of thermal history and weld microstructure in RSW and to find the most important process parameters that influence the weld microstructure. A one dimensional model is proposed for prediction about thermal history during cooling ...

Abstract While the application of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method for modeling welding processes has become increasingly popular in recent years, little is yet known about quantitative predictive capability this method. We propose a novel SPH model simulation tungsten inert gas (TIG) spot process and conduct thorough comparison between our implementation two finite element (FEM)-ba...

Fatigue characteristics of welded joints alloy 01420C made by resistance spot welding and automatic argon arc are obtained. The highest durability was shown with a longitudinal weld. Joints Produced simulating the edge line reinforced element have comparable to an unloaded weld spot, which in turn is inferior joint elements limited cross-section repair mechanical cut similar standard sample for...