SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING WELD QUALITY

Systems and methods are provided herein useful to analyzing weld quality. In some embodiments, the systems and methods identify or predict weld characteristics such as surface discontinuities and/or subsurface discontinuities based on surface topology data and/or welding process parameters. The syst...

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Hauptverfasser: Goravar, Shivappa, Thyssen, Jeffrey R, Karnati, Sreekar, Kommareddy, Vamshi, Galliers, Brian C
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Systems and methods are provided herein useful to analyzing weld quality. In some embodiments, the systems and methods identify or predict weld characteristics such as surface discontinuities and/or subsurface discontinuities based on surface topology data and/or welding process parameters. The systems and methods described herein leverage machine learning algorithms to identify relationships between historic weld characteristics and historic pre-weld surface topology, historic post-weld surface topology, and/or historic welding process parameters. Thus, the systems and methods described herein may identify weld characteristics for a weld based on the relationships and the pre-weld surface topology, post-weld surface topology, and/or welding process parameters for the weld. Further, the systems and methods described herein may also identify weld as conforming or not conforming to one or more weld standards based on the relationships and the pre-weld surface topology, post-weld surface topology, and/or welding process parameters for the weld.