Resistance spot welding is a process with high productivity and level of automation. This rises number tasks related to development quality evaluation monitoring systems operating in real-time mode which would allow detect non-compliant joints during the run shortly after it finished. The more complex task make such system as much universal possible, consisting relatively simple equipment possi...

Spot welding is used extensively in the automotive industry. The quality of an individual welding spot is a major concern due to the heavy reliance on their use in the manufacture of cars. The main parameters that control the quality of a welding spot are current, voltage, welding force, welding time, and the quality of the welding electrodes. The condition of the welding electrodes plays a maj...

Resistance spot welding is an important and widely used method for joining metal objects. In this paper, various classification methods for identifying welding processes are evaluated. Using process identification, a similar process for a new welding experiment can be found among the previously run processes, and the process parameters leading to high-quality welding joints can be applied. With...

Laser welding has a large potential for the production of tailor welded blanks in the automotive industry, due to the low heat input and deep penetration. However, due to the small laser spot and melt pool, laser-based welding processes in general have a low tolerance for seam gaps. In this paper, five laserbased welding techniques are compared for their gap bridging capabilities: single-spot l...

Surface interaction at the worksheet/worksheet interface during resistance spot welding of aluminium alloy 5182 with spherical tip electrodes was investigated. Oxide layer cracking and nugget formation were focused. Both experimental work and finite element analysis were employed to explain the contact behaviour at this interface. It was found that sheet separation and thus bending occurred dur...

Process identification in the field of resistance spot welding can be used to improve welding quality and to speed up the set-up of a new welding process. Previously, good classification results of welding processes have been obtained using a feature set consisting of 54 features extracted from current and voltage signals recorded during welding. In this study, the usability of the individual f...

Welding is used in a wide range of heavy and light industry, construction and maintenance, including vehicle construction. Workers using welding processes are exposed to electromagnetic fields (EMF). The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) has published guidelines on limits of the exposure to static magnetic fields and on guidelines limiting the exposure to ti...