Effect of refilling time on microstructure and mechanical properties of friction spot welded LY12 aluminum alloy

Friction spot welding （FSpW） was successfully used to produce joints of LY12 aluminum alloy. The effects of refilling time on microstructure and mechanical properties of FSpW joints were systematically studied. Results show that the cross-section of FSpW joint presents a basin-like morphology. A white bonding ligament exists in the center of the joint. The stir zone can be clarified into sleeve affected zone and pin affected zone based on different grain sizes. With increasing the refilling time from 2. 0 s to 3.5 s, grains in the stir zone become coarser, microhardness of the joint decreases and tensile shear failure load of the joint firstly increases and then decreases. The maximum tensile shear failure load of 8 130 N is attained when the refilling time is 3.0 s. Shear-plug fracture mode and shear fracture mode can be observed in the tensile shear tests. The maximum hardness of 169. 7 HV is attained in the joint center when the refilling time is 2. 0 s.

A time-dependent measuring system for welding deformation

In this paper the establishment and application of a time dependent measuring system for welding deformation are presented which is established with high quality sensors shielded from strong welding interference. By using this system, vertical and horizontal displacements of the high temperature area are surveyed at the same time. And this system is also used for monitoring and controlling the deformation of real welded structures.

A fast and adaptive method for automatic weld defect detection in various real-time X-ray imaging systems

A first and effective method is proposed to detect weld deject adaptively in various Dypes of real-time X-ray images obtained in different conditions. After weld extraction and noise reduction, a proper template of median filter is used to estimate the weld background. After the weld background is subtracted from the original image, an adaptite threshold segmentation algorithm is proposed to obtain the binary image, and then the morphological close and open operation, labeling algorithm and fids＇e alarm eliminating algorithm are applied to pracess the binary image to obtain the defect, ct detection result. At last, a fast realization procedure jbr proposed method is developed. The proposed method is tested in real-time X-ray image,s obtairted in different X-ray imaging sutems. Experiment results show that the proposed method is effective to detect low contrast weld dejects with few .false alarms and is adaptive to various types of real-time X-ray imaging systems.

Weld extraction from real-time radiograph based on bidirectional accumulator Hough Transform

An effective approach is presented to extract welds from real-time radiographs, Firstly an algorithm based on an adaptive bidirectional threshold was proposed to segment the gradient image into ternary image, and then the bidirectional accumulator Hough Transform was developed to extract weld edges from the ternary image. Different values of the coefficient proposed in the threshold algorithm were tested, and the proposed approach was applied to extract welds from real-time radiographic images of different types of welds with defects. Results show that the proposed method is adaptive and effective to extract welds from real-time radiographs of linear welds.

Time-Frequency Entropy Analysis of Arc Signal in Non-Stationary Submerged Arc Welding

The use of time-frequency entropy to quantitatively assess the stability of submerged arc welding process considering the distribution features of arc energy is reported in this paper. Time-frequency entropy is employed to calculate and analyze the stationary current signals, non-stationary current and voltage signals in the submerged arc welding process. It is obtained that time-frequency entropy of arc signal can be used as arc stability judgment criteria of submerged arc welding. Experimental results are provided to confirm the effectiveness of this approach.

Response time of variable transparency glass and its application to welding goggles

The behavior of variable transparency glass is studied, and the response time analyzed and measured aimed at applications to welding goggles. Detection apparatus for goggle testing is involved in the design and development. Charac-teristics of the apparatus are discussed based on experiments. The definition of nominal response time and effective response time are presented based on the analysis and calculation with experimental data.

Numerical analysis of keyhole establishment time in keyhole plasma arc welding

Numerical analysis of keyhole shape and keyhole establishment time is of great significance for selection and optimization of the process parameters in keyhole plasma arc welding. In this paper, a three-dimensional transient model is developed to analyze the evolutions of keyhole shape and keyhole establishment time in continuous current plasma arc welding process. Firstly, a combined volumetric heat source model is used to simulate the transient variation of temperature field. And then the surface deformation equation is adopted to calculate dynamic features of the keyhole shape and keyhole establishment time inside weld pool, in which the force action on weld pool surface is considered. Experiment is cond^ted to validate the numerical simulation results. The predicted keyhole size and keyhole establishment time are in agreement with the experimental measurement. And the calculated fusion zone geometry is consistent with the measured one.

Modeling of a welding robot system with time delay

A new real time control model based on the fundamental Petri net theory is built for a complete close loop welding robot system with time delay. The new Petri net model synchronizes with devices at the primary level by introducing into the basic Petri net expression new parameters which contain the responding real time information. In addition, time delay is taken into account by adding some necessary time related parameters. Usually, in a system without time delay, if the condition is enabled, the transition must be fired, but in a system with time delay, this property is only a necessary but not a sufficient condition.

Real-time monitoring of weld penetration quality in robotic arc welding process

It is of great significance to develop an intelligent monitoring system for weld penetration defects such as incomplete penetration and burn-through in real-time during robotic arc welding process. In this paper, robotic gas metal arc welding experiments are carried out on the mild steel test pieces with Vee-type groove. Through-the-arc sensing method is used to capture the transient values of the welding voltage and current. The raw data of the captured welding current and voltage are processed statistically, and the feature vector SIO is extracted to correlate the welding conditions to the weld penetration information. It lays foundation for intelligent monitoring of weld quality in robotic arc welding.

Prediction of cooling time t8/5 in twin wire submerged arc welding of intermediate thickness plate

Twin wire submerged arc welding （SAW） is widely used in oil or gas line pipe fabrication because of its high productivity. To investigate the strength and toughness of the heat-affected zone （HAZ） in twin wire SAW, the cooling time t8/5 of the coarse grained zone must be studied. The authors presented a method of predicting the cooling time in twin wire SAW of intermediate thickness plate. Based on Rosenthal analytical solutions, an energy factor was introduced to describe the energy contribution of the two wires, equations of thermal cycle and cooling time in twin wire SAW of both thick, and thin, plates were developed. Weighting factors determined by actual thickness and critical thickness were adopted to represent the thermal cycle and cooling time of intermediate thickness plate through linear interpolation with thick, and thin, plate solutions. The predicted cooling time for an intermediate thickness plate was verified experimentally, and the predicted results agreed therewith.

Digital arc welding power supply based on real-time operating system

A digital arc welding power supply was designed with the advanced reduced instruction set computer machine （ARM） and embedded real-time multi-task operating system micro C/OS- Ⅱ. The ARM, with its powerful calculating speed and complete peripheral equipments, is very suitable to work as the controller of the digital power supply. The micro C/OS- Ⅱ transplanted in ARM, helps to improve the respondent speed against various welding signals, as well as the reliability of the controlling software. The welding process consists of nine tasks. The tasks of great significance on reliability of the welder, for example, the A/D conversion of current and voltage, enjoy top priority. To avoid simultaneous-sharing on A/D converter and LCD module, two semaphores are introduced in to ensure the smooth performance of the welding power supply. Proven by experiments ,the ARM and the micro C/OS- Ⅱ can greatly improve both the respondent speed and the reliability of the digital welder.

A vision tracking system of robot CO_2 short transfer welding

This paper expounds the necessity of applying real-time control in vision sensing and tracking system of welding robot and analyses the difficulty of welding image processing. Through experiments, a practical robot CO2 arc adaptive feedback tracking system is established. According to the analysing of current and voltage signals between welding torch and base metal, the image freezing time for TMS-32020 processor is determined, and the defect of dark image and serious splashes in CO, welding image are avoided. Thus welding image becomes clear, and digitalization of video signal is stability. Then, with adaptive threshold control the welding image binaryzation, 3×3 mean level filtration and 3×3 weighting mean level filtration in welding seam are processed.Furthermore, the deviation between the centre of welding torch and the seam welded is found out, even though there are much spatter in the welding image.At last, the end effector of the robot is controlled and a welding torch is carried to track the seam welded during arc welding.

Eigenvalue extraction of current signal during spot welding based on space-phase reconstruction

Nonlinear methods are used to analyze current signal of spot welding and the minimum embedding dimension, correlation dimension, the optimal time delay and the largest Lyapunav exponent of current signal time series are calculated in this paper. The chaotic character of current signal time series is discovered. Then a chaotic neural network is built and used to predict the future current signal. Means of residual error out of the network are used as eigenvalue of current signal during spot welding. It is shown that spatter can greatly affect the means of residual error of spot welding after analysis, the mean values of output errors of signal contaminated by spatter noise are more than 0. 08, but the mean values of output errors of the signal with no spatter noise are less than 0. 04, so mean of residual errors can be employed as the character of spatter.

A high-precision control system for robotic welding positioner

Aiming at the robotic welding positioner with characteristic of parameter change, load change, nonlinearity, and an intelligent control system was researched and developed. This control system used a two-mode controller that based on Fuzzy and PID control method. The results of simulation show that the dynamic and steady performances of the intelligent controller are better than that of single PID or Fuzzy controller. This paper has made a detail theoretical analysis of the constitution design and real-time controlled software and brought up the design and fulfillment method of multi-task real-time control software of high precisely and numerically controlled welding positioner, which has a good result in practice.

A machine vision approach to seam tracking in real-time in PAW of large-diameter stainless steel tube

Manual monitoring and seam tracking through watching weld pool images in real-time, by naked eyes or by industrial TV, are experience-depended, subjective, labor intensive, and sometimes biased. So it is necessary to realize the automation of computer-aided seam tracking. A PAW (plasma arc welding) seam tracking system was developed, which senses the molten pool and the seam in one frame by a vision sensor, and then detects the seam deviation to adjust the work piece motion adaptively to the seam position sensed by vision sensor. A novel molten pool area image-processing algorithm based on machine vision was proposed. The algorithm processes each image at the speed of 20 frames/second in real-time to extract three feature variables to get the seam deviation. It is proved experimentally that the algorithm is very fast and effective. Issues related to the algorithm are also discussed.

电力机车高强钢零部件焊修工艺技术研究

为了研究焊修次数对电力机车转向架关键零部件30CrMo合金钢空心轴组织及性能的影响,并优化其焊修工艺,对30CrMo合金钢空心轴行了三次焊修试验,并对每次焊修后的接头进行了静强度试验、金相试验和疲劳试验。静强度试验包括拉伸和弯曲试验,金相试验观察了接头各区域的显微组织,疲劳试验采用旋转弯曲加载方式,以确定接头的疲劳极限。结果表明:多次焊修后,接头的拉伸性能良好,拉伸试件断于母材;弯曲性能良好,弯曲角度达180°时无断裂或裂纹产生;室温和低温冲击性能在多次焊修后略有下降,符合标准要求;三次焊修焊缝硬度在330~340 HV之间,明显高于母材及热影响区硬度值。金相组织分析表明,空心轴母材的组织为回火索氏体、上贝氏体及块状铁素体,热影响区的主要组织为回火索氏体和少量块状铁素体,熔合区的组织为回火索氏体,焊缝组织为经过调质后产生的回火索氏体。接头疲劳极限满足强度要求,第三次焊修中值疲劳极限最高,在指定寿命为1×10^(7)次循环下的中值疲劳极限为399 MPa。焊后调质处理可以有效地改善多次焊修对接头性能的影响。多次焊修后的30CrMo合金钢空心轴接头具有良好的拉伸、弯曲和疲劳性能,且随着焊修次数的增加,接头的疲劳强度逐渐提高。该研究结果为电力机车转向架关键部件的焊修工艺优化提供了理论依据。

Calculation of vaporization pressure in laser penetration welding of 304 stainless steel

Many research results have revealed that vaporization pressure has important effects on the formation of the keyhole and molten pool during laser welding. In this paper, based on law of conservation of energy, an innovative physical model is found to calculate the vaporization pressure during laser welding. In this model, vaporization pressure can be calculated according to some characteristics of the spatter particle. These features include the size, velocity and displacement. They can be measured through images taken by high-speed camera. The periods of this pressure also measured by counting opening and closing time of the bottom keyholes. At this welding condition, the typical vaporization pressure is about 20 203 Pa and the period is about 6. 9 ms. The average opening time of bottom keyholes is about 4. 3 ms, and the closing time is about 2. 6 ms.

某液体火箭发动机用起动器峰值压力时间超差故障研究

针对某液体火箭发动机用起动器峰值压力时间超差故障,进行了原因分析,提出了改进措施并对其有效性进行了试验验证。结果表明:造成起动器峰值压力时间超差故障的原因为起动器内膜片与端盖间的焊接强度不足,在高温燃气冲击下膜片过早脱落、烧蚀,从而导致压力提前泄放。提出将1圈焊接改进为2圈焊接、将点焊改进为连续焊接,焊接后增加气密性及承压性能检测,以及加强削弱槽深度检测等改进措施。验证试验表明上述改进措施可有效避免起动器出现峰值压力时间超差故障。

工艺参数对电弧增材制造工件的影响

电弧增材制造具有高沉积速率、高质量、无尺寸限制的特点,能够满足具有高机械性能要求的中大型部件的制作需求。电弧增材制造AlMg合金过程中制备工艺参数对工件的宏观形貌、微观组织及力学性能均会产生重要影响。本文通过研究焊丝盘松紧度、焊接速度、焊接电流和层间等待时间对电弧增材制造AlMg合金成形的影响,确定了最佳制备工艺参数。研究表明,焊丝盘松紧度为2时,增材设备送丝顺畅,焊道成形效果好;焊道成形与热输入有关,焊接速度越小,增材过程产生的热输入值越大,当焊接速度为36 cm/min时,单道焊缝的成形缺陷最少,成形效果良好;焊接电流越大,增材过程产生的热输入值就越大,当焊接电流为65 A时,焊道形貌均匀;层间等待时间增加到150 s时,合金晶粒为均匀细小的等轴晶,平均晶粒尺寸降至52.9μm。

焊接次数对TC18钛合金中厚板电子束焊接接头组织及性能的影响

采用电子束焊接工艺对21 mm厚TC18钛合金板进行了1次与2次(在1次焊接焊缝处以相同工艺再次焊接)焊接试验,研究了焊接次数对接头组织、拉伸性能和硬度的影响。结果表明:2种焊接接头均成形良好,无明显缺陷;相对于1次焊接,2次焊接接头热影响区中的α′相增多,晶粒尺寸增大;焊接接头的抗拉强度高于母材,且2次焊接接头强度更高,但断后伸长率下降,断裂方式均为韧性断裂;1次焊接与2次焊接接头焊缝区的平均显微硬度分别为380,395 HV,均高于母材区,热影响区的平均显微硬度分别为360,350 HV,增加焊接次数提高了焊缝区硬度,降低了热影响区硬度。