USE OF FACTOR ANALYSIS METHODS IN THE STUDY OF THE STRUCTURAL STATE OF THE WELDED JOINT AFTER LASER WELDING
Formulation of the problem. The use of the mathematical apparatus of factor analysis allows us to investigate the stability of correlations between individual variables. It is the correlations between the variables themselves, as well as between the variables and the selected factors that contain the basic information about the stage of development. The results of factor analysis will be informative if they can be interpreted from the point of view of the physical meaning of both the process under study and the factors that were obtained as a result of the application of factor analysis. Therefore, when identifying factors that will be used for further analysis, one should be guided not only by mathematical methods, but also by the physical meaning of identifying factors. Thus, the use of factor analysis in the study of material science problems (for example, the welding process) is reduced to the search and analysis of the most significant characteristics of the process (factors) among the data array that can be obtained during the process under study. Purpose. Investigation of the relationship between the structural state in the zones of the welded joint after laser welding of specimens from steel 10KhSND using the mathematical apparatus of factor analysis. Conclusion. In this work, the study of the relationship of the distribution of the structural state over the zones of the welded joint was carried out using the mathematical apparatus of factor analysis.