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Monitoring of Weld Quality in Friction Stir Welding Based on Spindle Speed and Motor Current Signals

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Advances in Material Forming and Joining

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Abstract

The process of friction stir welding passed more than two decades since its invention in the year 1991 in TWI, UK. It involves complex physics and has not been explored fully to understand its physical behavior. Due to the lack of precise mathematical modeling and too many influencing factors that govern the welding process, difficulty arises in direct monitoring of the process based on the process parameters only. Moreover, the influencing parameters are so correlated that the effect of one on the weld quality cannot be isolated from the others for effective monitoring of the process. Thus, a need is realized to develop different methods for the efficacious monitoring of the process with the acquired signals during welding for better control over the outcome of the process. In this study, effectiveness of spindle speed and main motor current signals is investigated for the development of tools which will lead to real-time weld quality prediction.

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    Bipul Das, Sukhomay Pal & Swarup Bag

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Das, B., Pal, S., Bag, S. (2015). Monitoring of Weld Quality in Friction Stir Welding Based on Spindle Speed and Motor Current Signals. In: Narayanan, R., Dixit, U. (eds) Advances in Material Forming and Joining. Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2355-9_12

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