Investigate Weld Quality of Gas Metal Arc Welding Process Through Online Monitoring of Input Parameters
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    Gas metal arc welding (GMAW) is also referred as the metal inert gas (MIG) welding which is a process of welding done by the formation of an electric arc between the consumable wire electrode and the workpiece. Through the welding process, a continuous flow of inert gas is supplied, and it avoids the weld being subjected to react with at-mospheric air. The process can be automatic or semi-automatic where the main input parameters like current and the voltage can be direct and constant, respectively. Not only the current and voltage the welding quality depends on some more input parameters such as arc gap, velocity, and temperature. In this paper, we explain about a setup which is capable of real-time monitoring of input parameters mentioned above and selecting the best MIG welding parame-ters for the mild steel. The setup is composed of several sensors and microcontrollers for the collection and the measurement of the input parameters. The samples were categorized according to the federate and the voltage ad-justment of the selected welding machine. Then the final objective was to identify the samples of the weld with dif-ferent parameter changes which are monitored through the system. For the analysis, the samples were subjected to tensile and hardness tests, and microstructure tests to find the dependence of the input parameters which effect for the weld quality. Finally, the experimental results verified the effectiveness of the system for the selection of the quality weld.

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Nishadi WEERASINGHE, Banuka PANDITHASEKARA, Dulaj THENNAKOON.[J]. Instrumentation,2021,8(3):52-66

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