Plasma plume oscillations monitoring during laser welding of stainless steel by discrete wavelet transform application

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3549-3561

  Sibillano, Teresa ^a   Ancona, Antonio ^a   Rizzi, Domenico ^a   Lupo, Valentina ^c   Tricarico, Luigi ^a,c   Lugarà, Pietro Mario ^a,b  

^a INFM   (Italy)

^b Bariand INFN Sezione di Bari   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Laser welding; Optical sensor; Plasma spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; DISCRETE SERIES; OPTICAL RADIATIONS; OPTICAL SIGNALS; PLASMA SPECTROSCOPY; PROCESS CONDITION; PROCESS SETTINGS; SIGNAL FEATURES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY BANDS; OPTICAL SENSORS;

LASER BEAM WELDING;

EID: 77951699921     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100403549     Document Type: Article

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