Online quality inspection of resistance spot welding for automotive production lines

W Dai, D Li, Y Zheng, D Wang, D Tang, H Wang… - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reliable quality control of resistance spot welding (RSW) is a long-standing challenge, due
to random disturbance on automotive production lines. In this paper, a quality evaluation …

Quality assessment of resistance spot welding process based on dynamic resistance signal and random forest based

B Xing, Y Xiao, QH Qin, H Cui - The International Journal of Advanced …, 2018 - Springer
A scheme for online quality monitoring of resistance spot welding (RSW) process is
proposed to effectively determine the rate of spot weld quality. In this work, the random forest …

Online quantitative evaluation of expulsion in resistance spot welding

YJ Xia, ZW Su, YB Li, L Zhou, Y Shen - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2019 - Elsevier
Weld expulsion is a universal problem during resistance spot welding (RSW) process and
has potential damage to welding products and surrounding facilities. This study presents a …

Comparative study on resistance and displacement based adaptive output tracking control strategies for resistance spot welding

L Zhou, YJ Xia, Y Shen, AS Haselhuhn… - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2021 - Elsevier
To achieve high quality resistance spot welds (RSW) through intelligent manufacturing of
automotive body structures, adaptive control for RSW processes becomes imperative and …

Characteristics of shunting effect in resistance spot welding in mild steel based on electrode displacement

B Xing, Y Xiao, QH Qin - Measurement, 2018 - Elsevier
Shunting effect of resistance spot welding is evaluated based on the electrode displacement
signals. The shunted welds in mild steel with different weld spacing were produced. The …

Effect of Welding Parameters of Resistance Spot Welding on Mechanical Properties and Corrosion Resistance of 316L

SM Hassoni, OS Barrak, MI Ismail, SK Hussein - Materials Research, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
The purpose of this research is to analyze the mechanical properties and corrosion
resistance of spot welding of stainless steels AISI 316L using the process of resistance spot …

Characteristics of shunting in resistance spot welding for dissimilar unequal-thickness aluminum alloys under large thickness ratio

J Bi, JL Song, Q Wei, Y Zhang, Y Li, Z Luo - Materials & Design, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper reports the shunting characteristics of dissimilar aluminum alloys 2219/5A06 of
unequal-thickness for the resistance spot welding (RSW) process. Shunting experiments of …

Online precision measurement of weld indentation in resistance spot welding using servo gun

YJ Xia, ZW Su, M Lou, YB Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Resistance spot welding (RSW) is the predominate joining method used for steel auto body
assembly. Significant effort has been made to control and inspect the RSW quality in real …

Enhancing nugget size and weldable current range of ultra-high-strength steel using multi-pulse resistance spot welding

JW Kim, SP Murugan, JH Yoo, R Ashiri… - … and Technology of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents an innovative approach that uses a pulse-profile to improve the welding
quality of CP1180 steel in resistance spot welding process. Three pulses with two cooling …

A fine-grained flexible graph convolution network for visual inspection of resistance spot welds using cross-domain features

Q Li, B Yang, S Wang, Z Zhang, X Tang… - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2022 - Elsevier
Resistance spot welding (RSW) is widely used in manufacturing processes of automobiles,
aircraft, high-speed trains and other equipment, its appearance quality not only affects the …