Arc welding control

Jiluan Pan185573687X, 9781855736870, 9781855738553, 084931772X

Text describes the dynamic behavior of arc welding, the power sources used, and their effect on welding technology through the basis of control theory. Describes new ways of controlling the welding arc through modern electronics. For researchers and practitioners.

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Table of contents :
Preliminaries……Page 1
Contents……Page 5
Preface……Page 9
List of symbols……Page 12
1 Theoretical analysis……Page 21
2 Dynamic characteristics of power sources……Page 37
3 Experimental study……Page 70
4 Control method QH ARC 101……Page 103
5 Control method QH ARC 102 and 103……Page 144
6 Arc control of CO2 welding and AC MIG welding……Page 197
7 Sensors for weld seam tracking……Page 253
8 Mathematical models of arc sensors……Page 279
9 Processing of arc sensor signals……Page 314
10 An automatic seam-tracking machine with an arc sensor……Page 378
11 Principles of the colorimetric imaging method……Page 429
12 Study of the colorimetric imaging method……Page 447
13 Design of a colorimetric imaging apparatus……Page 468
14 Practical measurement and application……Page 506
15 Vision systems and automatic path programming……Page 549
References……Page 600
Index……Page 619