- Title
- A fuzzy logic control system for a friction stir welding process
- Creator
- Majara, Khotso Ernest
- Subject
- Friction welding
- Subject
- Fuzzy logic
- Subject
- Automatic control
- Subject
- Fuzzy systems
- Date Issued
- 2006
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MTech
- Identifier
- vital:9594
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/405
- Identifier
- Friction welding
- Identifier
- Fuzzy logic
- Identifier
- Automatic control
- Identifier
- Fuzzy systems
- Description
- FSW is a welding technique invented and patented by The Welding Institute in 1991. This welding technique utilises the benefits of solid-state welding to materials regarded as difficult to weld by fusion processes. The productivity of the process was not optimised as the real-time dynamics of the material and tool changes were not considered. Furthermore, the process has a plastic weld region where no traditional modelling describing the interaction between the tool and work piece is available. Fuzzy logic technology is one of the artificial intelligent strategies used to improve the control of the dynamics of industrial processes. Fuzzy control was proposed as a viable solution to improve the productivity of the FSW process. The simulations indicated that FLC can use feed rate and welding speed to adaptively regulate the feed force and tool temperature respectively, irrespective of varying tool and material change. The simulations presented fuzzy logic technology to be robust enough to regulate FSW process in the absence of accurate mathematical models.
- Format
- xxiv, 153 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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