Computer Aided Developments for Improved Welding Integrity
Welding is identified in international standards as a ‘Special Process’ since, to quote the Australian standard AS/NZS 3834; “welds cannot be fully verified by subsequent inspection and testing of the product to ensure that the required quality standards have been met. For this reason procedural controls are commonly adopted for the fabrication of engineering structures. These controls involve prior qualification of a representative welding procedure followed by careful adherence to the same operating conditions in production. Deviation from the original qualified procedure can lead to defective or underperforming welds. In the past this has led to costly and even catastrophic weld failures. By employing computer aided developments in monitoring, control and automation it is now possible to reduce the likelihood of non compliant production welding procedures and this paper will describe some of the tools available and discuss their application.
John Norrish
University of Wollongong Australia
国际会议
济南
英文
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2012-08-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）