A novel method to eliminate the corona bond effect in detecting resistance spot welding joints based on ultrasonic vortex C-Scan technique

Author(s):  
Bo Zhang ◽  
Baojun Zhang ◽  
Weiming Cai ◽  
Lang Wang ◽  
Yitao Zhang
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Óscar Martín ◽  
Virginia Ahedo ◽  
José Ignacio Santos ◽  
José Manuel Galán

Abstract Resistance spot welding (RSW) is a widespread manufacturing process in the automotive industry. There are different approaches for assessing the quality level of RSW joints. Multi-input-single-output methods, which take as inputs either the intrinsic parameters of the welding process or ultrasonic nondestructive testing variables, are commonly used. This work demonstrates that the combined use of both types of inputs can significantly improve the already competitive approach based exclusively on ultrasonic analyses. The use of stacking of tree ensemble models as classifiers dominates the classification results in terms of accuracy, F-measure and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve metrics. Through variable importance analyses, the results show that although the welding process parameters are less relevant than the ultrasonic testing variables, some of the former provide marginal information not fully captured by the latter.


2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 418-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Ahedo ◽  
Óscar Martín ◽  
José Ignacio Santos ◽  
Pilar De Tiedra ◽  
José Manuel Galán

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