Signature analysis for quality monitoring in short-circuit GMAW

Welding Journal (Miami, Fla)

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Chu, Y X ^a   Hu, S J ^a   Hou, W K ^a   Wang, P C ^b   Marin, S P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Defect Detection; GMAW; Process Stability; Quality Monitoring; Short Circuiting Frequency

Indexed keywords

PROCESS STABILITY; QUALITY MONITORING; SIGNATURE ANALYSIS; WELD POOL;

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WELDING; WELDS;

GAS METAL ARC WELDING;

EID: 10844272469     PISSN: 00432296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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