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...

Recently friction stir welding for manufacturing of welded tubes has been developed. Friction stir welding is a continuous solid state welding process in which a non-consumable rotating tool using severe plastic deformation Can join materials can be join materials. Commonly, a portion of a specially shaped rotating tool is plunged between metalsjoint cross section and adjacent faces of the join...

The Friction Stir Welding process is now 20 years old and the interest in it and its potential continues to increase dramatically. FSW can be applied to a multitude of products with varying material types and thicknesses. However, a continuous weld is not always required to meet the product performance requirements. Thus, one can consider some form of intermittent weld, such as Friction Stir Sp...

Recently, the incidence of pneumoconiosis due to inhalation of welding fumes has become increasingly remarkable in Japan. Although several engineering methods such as local exhaust ventilation, push-pull ventilation and general (dilution) ventilation have been preferred for controlling airborne contaminants released from welding work, thorough reduction of the welder’s exposure to welding fumes...

Laser welding has a quite high demand on trajectory accuracy of articulated robot. To improve dynamic trajectory accuracy of articulated robots for laser welding, a novel 3D seam tracking method is proposed based on stereo visual feedback control. The method constructs a visual feedback control system with two convergent cameras mounted at the end of industrial robot. A tool coordinate system i...

Conventional Non Destructive Testing (NDT) techniques for assessing the weld quality are applied after welding is completed. It results in wastage of time, material and manpower. These inherent limitations of the conventional welding processes can be overcome with an automated adaptive welding system to correct the deviation in the welding current and torch speed to provide defect free welds. T...

Path planning for the industrial robot plays an important role in the intelligent control of robot. Tradition strategies, including model-based methods and human taught based methods, find it is difficult to control manipulator intelligently and optically. Thus, it is hard to ensure the better performance and lower energy consumption even if the same welding task was executed repeatedly. A path...

In this paper, methods of welding and sealing optically transparent materials using an ultrashort pulsed (USP) fiber laser are demonstrated which overcome the limit of small area welding of optical materials. First, the interaction of USP fiber laser radiation inside glass was studied and single line welding results with different laser parameters were investigated. Then multiline scanning was ...

Currently, advances due to tailored blanking can be enhanced by the development of new grades of advanced high-strength steels (HSSs), for the further weight reduction and structural improvement of automotive components. In the present work, diode laser welds of three different grades of advanced high-strength dual-phase (DP) steel sheets (with tensile strengths of 980, 800, and 450 MPa) to hig...

This paper addresses the problem of recognizing and interpreting the behavior of human workers in industrial environments for the purpose of integrating humans in software controlled manufacturing environments. In this work we propose a generic concept in order to derive solutions for task-related manual production applications. Thus, we are able to use a versatile concept providing flexible co...