Abstract
Aluminum alloys have promising application in automobile and aircraft industries due to their high specific strength and good corrosion resistance. However, porosity is easily produced during welding solidification due to the significant difference of hydrogen solubility in liquid and solid alloy, which is detrimental to welding quality. Because of existence inside the weld seam, porosity has to be detected by destructive test or nondestructive test, resulting in increasing the difficulty to meet the need of efficient production with high quality for modern manufacturing. To solve this problem, this chapter proposes a suitable method for on-line detection of porosity defects during aluminum alloy arc welding, on the basis of introducing the current intelligent welding technology. Furthermore, the chapter points out the challenges the method faces.
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Huang, Y., Chen, S. (2020). Introduction. In: Key Technologies of Intelligentized Welding Manufacturing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7549-1_1
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