Self-Shielded Arc Welding

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 ...

Effective control of gas shielded arc welding fume RR683

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...

Weld Quality Prediction of Mild Steel Pipe Joint during Shielded Metal Arc Welding through fuzzy Logic

The present paper describes fuzzy logic simulation of shielded metal arc welding (SMAW) process to predict the Quality of weld joint. It describe the quality of weld joint & effect of welding current, voltage and welding speed on tensile strength of shielded metal arc pipe welded mild steel joints. An ERW Mild steel pipe I S 1239 of 6 mm thickness and 150 mm diameter were used as the base mater...

An Experimental Study of the Fume Particulate Produced by the Shielded Metal Arc Welding Process

Welding fumes are common ambient air pollutants in manufacturing facilities, and have been shown to have deleterious effects on human health. An experimental effort is conducted to study the formation and composition of respirable fumes from a SMAW process. The responses examined are the fume particle size distribution (mean diameter) and formation rate (particle number and mass concentration)....