Welding metal alloys with dissimilar melting points makes conventional welding processes not feasible to be used. Friction welding, on the other hand, has proven a promising technology. However, obtaining welded joint’s mechanical properties characteristics similar base materials remains challenge. In development of this work, several machine learning (ML) regressors (e.g., Gaussian process, de...

Robot automation systems are rapidly taking the place of the human work force. One of the benefits is that this change provides the human work force with the time to spend on more creative tasks. The highest population of robots is in spot welding, spray painting, material handling, and arc welding. Spot welding and spray painting applications are mostly in the automotive industry. However, arc...

Principal and Independent Component Analysis are used in this paper to provide a discrimination among those species participating in the plasma of welding spectra. This approach might be useful for spectral line identification for emission spectroscopy, especially for online welding diagnostics and laser induced breakdown spectroscopy. In this case, the feasibility of this proposal will be anal...

We investigated the feasibility of using laser tissue welding techniques to perform transcanal underlay tympanoplasty. We used 10 temporal bones obtained from human cadavers. After creating a subtotal tympanic membrane perforation, we introduced harvested periosteum through the perforation and used laser tissue welding to secure the periosteum graft in place in an underlay fashion. The procedur...

Observing and measuring the weld pool surface is a key to developing next-generation intelligent welding machines and to understanding the welding process better. In this paper, a dot-matrix pattern is used to project a commercially-available low power continuous laser onto the weld pool surface and the reflection of the laser is intercepted by an image plane which is placed with a distance fro...

Experimental study was conducted to assess personal welding fumes exposure toward welders during an aluminum metal inert gas (MIG) process. The welding process was carried out by a welding machine attached to a Computer Numerical Control (CNC) workbench. A dummy welder was used to replicate welder during welding works and was attached with sampling pumps and filter cassettes for welding fumes s...

The paper demonstrates the correlation between the chemical composition of steel grades and the hardness as well as the formability of laser welds generated with modern automotive high strength steel grades. At the very low heat input of industrial laser welding and the resulting extremely high cooling rate, the weld hardness is fully controlled by the carbon content of the base materials and n...

A method has been developed allowing fabrication of electronic boards from flexible polymer film by ultrasonic embossing and welding within seconds. A commercially available ultrasonic welding machine and micro patterned tools from aluminum are employed first to generate conductor paths on a flexible polymer film, in a further step, surface mounted devices (SMDs) are assembled and fixed on the ...

Electron beam welding has proved phenomenal in welding of components used in space because it uses a vacuum environment which eliminates substances like oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen. The main advantage of EBW is its ability to weld dissimilar materials and incorporate desirable properties in the assembly. It has high depth to width ratio and focuses exactly on the portion to be welded, thereb...