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Insight into Arc Welding Power Source Terminologies

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Welding arc is an electric current flowing between two electrodes through an ionized gas column. Arc stability is a critical problem which influences the metal transfer during welding. When the arc is stable, metal transfer is uniform with minimum spatter (Shklovski and Janson in Development of constant-power source for arc welding, pp. 255–258, 2012 [37]). The terminologies of major concerns during the joining process are presented below.

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  1. VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

    S. Arungalai Vendan

  2. State Key Lab of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

    Liang Gao

  3. Intelligent Manufacturing Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong, China

    Akhil Garg

  4. VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

    P. Kavitha

  5. School of Electrical Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

    G. Dhivyasri

  6. School of Electrical Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

    Rahul SG

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Vendan, S.A., Gao, L., Garg, A., Kavitha, P., Dhivyasri, G., SG, R. (2019). Insight into Arc Welding Power Source Terminologies. In: Interdisciplinary Treatment to Arc Welding Power Sources. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0806-2_2

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