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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I sincerely like to thank Mr.Kiran Prakash, my project & seminar guide for his
valuable suggestions and encouragement in carrying out this seminar.

    My special thanks to our seminar coordinator, Mr.Ravichandra Kunugali Rangappa,

Assistant Professor for his kind cooperation to the completion of the seminar work.

    I am very grateful to Prof. Mahesh Davangeri, HOD Mechanical Dept., SCEM, Mangalore
for giving support to do this seminar.

    I also wish my gratitude to staff members of Mechanical Department who rendered me
their help during the period of my seminar work.

    I wish to express my sincere gratitude to Dr.U.M.Bhushi, Principal of Sahyadri College of

Engineering and Management, Mangalore and Dr.Manjunath Bhandary, Chairman of
Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, Mangalore for providing me an
opportunity to do my seminar on “Infrared And Electromagnetic Inspection Of Steel
Structures Under Load”.

    Last but not the least I wish to avail myself of this opportunity, express a sense of gratitude
and love to my parents and friends for their support, strength, help and everything.

SHISHIR

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ABSTRACT

This report presents in detail the experimental methodologies and the results of the
infrared investigation of the steel samples under load. Moreover the second, electromagnetic
method (EM) for non destructing evaluation was used for monitoring the fatigue process. The
IRT allows to observe the general global condition of the material while the EM to
carry out local, detail examination of the fatigue stage in critical region.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1
1.0 INTRODUCTION 01

1.1 INTRODUCTION TO AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS 01

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1.2 INTRODUCTION TO WELDING 0 4

CHAPTER 2
2.0 WHY CONTINUOUS ROBOTIC ARC WELDING? 06

2.1 BENEFITS OF ROBOT ARC WELDING 06

2.2 FEATURES OF ARC WELDING ROBOTS 07

2.3 PROBLEMS FOR ROBOTS IN ARC WELDING 9

CHAPTER 3
3.0 WHY ROBOT SPOT WELDING? 11

3.1 BENEFITS OF ROBOT SPOT WELDING 11

3.2 FEATURES OF SPOT-WELDING ROBOTS 12

CHAPTER 4
4.0 ROBOTIC ARC WELDING SYSTEM 14

CHAPTER 5
CONCLUSION 19

REFERENCES 20

LIST OF FIGURES

● Fig 2.1 A typical arc welding robot 9

● Fig 2.2 Arc welding robots performing in a workshop 10
● Fig 3.1 A typical spot welding robot 13

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● Fig 3.2 Spot welding robot performing in a welding cell 13

● Fig 4.1 RAWS 14
● Fig 4.2 End Effector on Robotic Arm 16
● Fig 4.3 Typical block diagram configuration of a control 17
system for a robot joint.
● Fig 4.4 Block Diagram Of Raw 18

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