Continuous monitoring of an intentionally-manufactured crack using an automated welding and in-process inspection system
Continuous monitoring of an intentionally-manufactured crack using an automated welding and in-process inspection system
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DOI:
10.1016/j.matdes.2020.108655
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发表时间:
2020-06-01
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8.4
通讯作者:
Gachagan, Anthony
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作者:
Javadi, Yashar;Mohseni, Ehsan;Gachagan, Anthony
Automated weld deposition coupled with the real-time robotic Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) is used in this paper. For performance verification of the in-process inspection system, an intentionally embedded defect, a tungsten rod, is introduced into the multi-pass weld. A partially-filled groove (staircase) sample is also manufactured and ultrasonically tested to calibrate the real-time inspection implemented on all seven layers of the weld which are deposited progressively. The tungsten rod is successfully detected in the real-time NDE of the deposited position. The same robotic inspection system was then used to continuously monitor an intentionally-manufactured crack for 20 h. The crack was initiated 22 min after the weld ended and it grew quickly within the next 1.5 h. The crack growth stopped approximately after 2 h and no considerable change in the reflection signal was detected for the next 18 h of monitoring. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.