• 국제초고층학회논문집
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.115-124
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• 2022

Welding is a significant part of the construction industry. Since most high-rise building construction structures rely on a robust metal frame welded together, welding defect can damage welded structures and is critical to safety and quality. Despite its importance and heavy usage in construction, the labor shortage of welders has been a continuous challenge to the construction industry. To deal with the labor shortage, the ultimate goal of this study is to design and develop an automated robotic welding system composed of a welding machine, unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), robotic arm, and visual sensors. This paper proposes and focuses on automated weaving using the robotic arm. For automated welding operation, a microcontroller is used to control the switch and is added to a welding torch by physically modifying the hardware. Varying weave patterns are mathematically programmed. The automated weaving is tested using a brush pen and a ballpoint pen to clearly see the patterns and detect any changes in vertical forces by the arm during weaving. The results show that the weave patterns have sufficiently high consistency and precision to be used in the actual welding. Lastly, actual welding was performed, and the results are presented.

• 한국공작기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국공작기계학회 1998년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.274-280
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• 1998

The welding technology and qualities are developed significantly, in recent years, in the use of automated processing technology and welding robot systems. But these automated welding technologies have many difficulties for finding the optimal welding parameter conditions. Because of the lack of mathematical model for determination of optimal welding process parameters. In this study, the sensitivity analysis of the empirical equations for finding weld bead width, height and penetration depth by using the published formulae. The selected major welding process parameters effected to weld bead geometries are the welding speed, current, voltage and weld wire diameter.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.83-91
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• 2008

GMAW(Gas Metal Arc Welding) processes are usually used in industrial side in order to get its high productivity. But those are only adopted in the semi-automated welding equipment because of a lot of welding spatters. Many industrial robot actually percents from being engaged in the welding processes. The welding spatter problem of causes blocking them being a fully automated welding process.This study was carried out to investigate the optimal conditions for minimizing welding spatter generation at GMAW robot. The spatter can be significantly reduced below 2% of welding spatter generation at the following conditions ; First, below 18V at the wire-feed rate 2.0mm/min Second, below 23V at the wire-feed rate 3.6mm/min Third, below 24V at the wire-feed rate 5.5mm/min.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 2006년 추계학술발표대회 개요집
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• pp.283-285
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• 2006

Non Destructive Examination for welds is one of the most important processes to ensure the integrity of facilities of Nuclear power plants. An automated ultrasonic testing program is developed for welding inspection. A test block with side EDM notch is inspected with this program. This paper shows that the developed automated ultrasonic testing program is quite effective.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.230-237
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• 2015

산업의 생산성 향상 및 용접공정의 개선을 위해 용접공정에 탠덤 용접의 적용가능성을 확인하고자 실험을 통한 용접이음부위의 성능평가를 실시하였다. 1전극 용접과 탠덤 용접의 실험을 통해, 비드의 형상을 비교 분석하고, 용접실험의 결과시험편에 대하여 3가지 시험(인장시험, 경도시험, 굽힘시험)을 실시하였다. 또한 결과시험편에 대한 기계적 성질을 분석하여 탠덤 용접이음부위에 대한 성능평가를 수행 하였다. 본 연구는 탐뎀 용접이음부위에 대한 기계적 성질 및 안전강도 보증을 목적으로 하고 있으며, 인장시험, 굽힘시험 및 경도시험을 통해 탠덤 GMAW 의 신뢰성과 효율성을 확인하고자 한다.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.33-42
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• 1996

In recent years there has been a significant growth in the use of the automated and/or robotic welding system, carried out as a means of improving productivity and quality, reducing product costs and removing the operator from tedious and potentially hazardous environments. One of the major difficulties with the automated and/or robotic welding process is the inherent lack of mathematical models for determination of suitable welding process parameters. Partial-penetration, single-pass bead-on-plate welds were fabricated in 12mm AS 1204 mild steel flats employing five different welding process parameters. The experimental results were used to develop three empirical equations: curvilinear; polynomial; and linear equations. The results were also employed to find the best mathematical equation under weld bend width to assist in the process control algorithms for the Gas Metal Arc Welding(GMAW) process and to correlate welding process parameters with weld bead width of bead-on-plates deposited. With the help of a standard statistical package program. SAS, multipe regression analysis was undertaken for investigating and modeling the GMAW process, and significance test techniques were applied for the interpretation of the experimental data.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.16-21
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• 2008

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 1997년도 특별강연 및 추계학술발표 개요집
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• pp.229-233
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• 1997

The demand to increase productivity and quality, the shortage of skilled labour and the strict health and safety requirements have led to the development of the automated welding process to deal with many of the present problems of welded fabrication. To make effective use of the automated arc welding process, it is imperative that a mathematical model, which can be programmed easily and fed to the robot, should be developed. The objectives of the paper are to develop the mathematical equations (linear and curvilinear) for study of the relationship between process variables and bead geometry by employing a standard statistical package program, SAS and to choose the best model for automation of the $CO_2$ gas arc welding process. Mathematical models developed from experimental results can be employed to control the process variables in order to achieve the desired bead geometry based on weld quality criteria. Also these equations may prove useful and applicable for automatic control system and expert systems.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2012

The tandem welding process is one of the most efficient welding processes widely used in material joining technique such as manufacturing of strong and durable structures. It facilitates high rate of joint filling with little increase in the overall rate of heat input due to the simultaneous deposition from two electrode wires. The two electrodes in tandem welding process helps in high-efficiency and high productive of welding process. In this study a automated tandem welding system is developed to determine the correlation between cathode and anode and compared with current ratio of the two electrode torch. Three different inter-electrode distances were chosen, 25mm, 35mm and 45mm to perform the experiment with three different current ratio. From the experiment results, the current ratio between two torch has a large impact on width, height and depth of penetration. In addition, a stable bead geometry is obtained when inter-electrode distance is 35mm.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 2002년도 Proceedings of the International Welding/Joining Conference-Korea
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• pp.336-341
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• 2002

Recent developments in sensor hardware and in advanced software have made it feasible to consider automating some of the most difficult welding operations. This paper describes some techniques used to automate successfully multipass submerged arc welding operations typically used in pressure vessel manufacture, shipbuilding, production of offshore structures and in pipe mills.