Caracterização de solda por resistência a ponto através de avaliações não destrutivas. / Spotweld characterization through non destructive evaluation.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

The aim is to describe the ultrasound technique, applied to the inspection of the resistance spot welding, and to demonstrate the advantages of this technique over the conventionally standardized destructive tests used in spotweld inspections until mid 1999, when the ultrasound technique began to be applied in Brazil. For this, two experimental procedures were organized, the first using the a-scan (single element transducer) ultrasound technique, in which the effects of the indentation of the spotweld were studied, one of the parameters that can be easily detected by this technique. The second experiment seeks to demonstrate the detection capacity of the ultrasonic b-scan technique (matrix transducer), in which the methodology was applied to seek the correlation between the results obtained by the equipment with the results found in the peel test and also in the macrographic results conventionally known. With these experiments, it was possible to prove the reliability and reproductibility of this technique, showing an increase in precision when related to the normalized known tests, besides the quantitative evaluation that can be made, allowing the statistical collection of data. A great difficulty was also noticed in interpreting the graphic signs emitted by the equipment, as well as in attesting the reliability and capacity of defects detection, raising the need of operators training. In any way, this technique represents the state of the art in the resistance spotweld inspection, and this was the main motivator of this study.

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ultrassonografia (técnicas) ensaios não destrutivos soldagem por resistência spotweld soldagem por ponto non destructive testing resistance welding ultrasound (techniques)

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