A STOCHASTIC SEARCH ALGORITHM TO OPTIMIZE THE PENETRATION AREA OF MILD STEEL WELD
Keywords:
tungsten inert gas welding, area of penetration, welding speed, mild steel, stochastic search algorithmAbstract
Welding is still the most popular means of fabrication available to the marine, aviation, and automobile manufacturing industries. It becomes important to understand the inter relationship between welding process parameters and weld bead geometries such as penetration depth, penetration size ratio and area of penetration. To achieve this goal, Mild Steel plates weld specimen were fabricated by using tungsten inert gas welding process which is one of the most widely used welding methods. The area of penetration was measured for each specimen after the welding process and the stochastic search algorithm was used to optimize the results It was found that at high welding speeds the area of penetration increased. The optimal solution selected solution 18 as the best optimal solution obtained from the genetic algorithm model.
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