Quality Estimation of Resistance Spot Welding by Using Pattern Recognition With Neural Networks

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 330-334

  Cho, Yongjoon ^a   Rhee, Sehun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic resistance; Hopfield neural network; Pattern recognition; Quality estimation; Resistance spot welding (RSW)

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; JOINING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SHEAR STRENGTH; SHEET METAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

DYNAMIC RESISTANCE; HOPFIELD NEURAL NETWORK; QUALITY ESTIMATION; RESISTANCE SPOT WELDING (RSW);

SPOT WELDING;

EID: 1842482275     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.822713     Document Type: Article

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