Ultrasonic impact treatment (UIT), which is a peening method, is usually used as a post-weld treatment in order to improve the fatigue strength of welded joints. In this study, fatigue tests were carried out on web-gusset welded joints treated by UIT and the results were compared with the fatigue lives of as-welded joints in order to examine the effects of UIT on the fatigue lives of welded joi...

During the design of a two-cavity injection mould for router covers, two plans, single-gate plan and dual-gates plan, were setup based on the results of best gate location analysis combined with other aspects. Then fill analysis for the two plans were carried out. The dual-gates plan was selected as an optimal choice for its smaller clamping force, wall shear stress and injection pressure in co...

Resistance spot welding (RSW) has been used widely to join sheet metals. It has been a challenge to get required weld quality in spot welding of dissimilar thickness materials. Weld parameters are not generally available in standards for thickness beyond 4mm. This paper presents the welding process design and parameter optimization of RSW used in joining of low carbon steel sheet of thickness 0...

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...

According to the characteristics of image defects, this paper integrated use of image preprocessing, image segmentation algorithms, expert systems and other methods, presented a film weld defect identification method for non-destructive testing in the pressure vessel weld defect recognition, and to achieve in MATLAB. This paper also described the expert system's basic principles, structure, est...

This paper investigates the effects of process parameters on weld bead width of austenitic stainless steel SS-310 in tungsten inert gas welding. The four parameters namely welding current, type of gas, gas flow rate and included angle of weld plates during butt joint were varied at three levels. The DOE approach was used to design experimental conditions. Orthogonal array L9 was used for carryi...

This paper presents a new architecture model, named Weld, for VLIW processors. Weld integrates multithreading support into a VLIW processor to hide run-time latency effects that cannot be determined by the compiler. It does this through a novel hardware technique called operation welding that merges operations from different threads to utilize the hardware resources more efficiently. Hardware c...

This study investigates transport phenomena in the weld pool (WP) of gas tungsten arc (GTA) welding of Nickel to 304 stainless steel. A finite element 3D simulation of fluid flow and heat transfer of spot welding without consumable is accomplished which leads to prediction of the weld zone shape, weld penetration and dilution of alloying elements. The model includes magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD),...

Data analytics applications combine multiple functions from different libraries and frameworks. Even when each function is optimized in isolation, the performance of the combined application can be an order of magnitude below hardware limits due to extensive data movement across these functions. To address this problem, we propose Weld, a new interface between data-intensive libraries that can ...

Two experimental high strength steel weld metals were produced with 7 wt. % nickel and manganese at 2 or 0.5 wt. %. Neural network predictions that Mn reductions increase toughness were confirmed with impact energy increasing from 32 to 113 J at –40 °C. High resolution microstructural investigations showed that both weld metals contained mainly martensite at interdendritic regions and predomina...