Audio sensing and modeling of arc dynamic characteristic during pulsed Al alloy GTAW process

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between arc sound signal and arc height through arc sound features of GTAW welding, which is aimed at laying foundation work for monitoring the welding penetration and quality by using the arc sound signal in the future.Design/methodology/approach – The experiment system is based on GTAW welding with acoustic sensor and signal conditioner on it. The arc sound signal was first processed by wavelet analysis and wavelet packet analysis designed in this research. Then the features of arc sound signal were extracted in time domain, frequency domain, for example, short‐term energy, AMDF, mean strength, log energy, dynamic variation intensity, short‐term zero rate and the frequency features of DCT coefficient, also the wavelet packet coefficient. Finally, a ANN (artificial neural networks) prediction model was built up to recognize different arc height through arc sound signal.Findings – The statistic features and DCT coefficient can be absolutely ...

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