Monitoring of weld joint penetration based on weld pool geometrical appearance: The geometrical appearance of the weld pool contains sufficient information to determine full joint penetration in GTAW

Welding Journal (Miami, Fla)

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 317-s

  Kovacevic, R ^a   Zhang, Y M ^a   Li, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

GTAW; High Shutter Speed Camera; Laser Illumination; Neural Networks; Real Time Image Processing; Sensors; Weld Joint Penetration; Weld Pool

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000567070     PISSN: 00432296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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