Acoustic Information Acquisition and Time Domain Analysis on Alternating Current Rail Flash Butt Welding

Based on the mobile rail flash butt welding machine UN5-150ZB, the synchronous data acquisition hardware system was designed to collect welding current, welding voltage and flash acoustic signal in welding process, and the software platform with the functions of signal collecting, waveform display and data operation was developed by higher-level programming language LabVIEW. After the welding current, welding voltage and flash acoustic signal in welding process had been collected, the mean, variance and mean square value of flash acoustic signal in time-domain were analyzed. Through comparison, the relationship between these characteristics and the stability of flash was analyzed. The result shows that the changes of mean and variance of flash acoustic signal are not obvious, and do not correlate with stability of flash, but the mean square value in time domain is closely associated with the stability of flash, and the stability of flash can be indicated by the mean square value.