TY - JOUR A1 - Kidangan, R. T. A1 - Unnikrishnakurup, Sreedhar A1 - P. Vengara, N. A1 - Balasubramaniam, Krishnan A1 - Rajagopal, P. A1 - Phani Prabhakar, K. V. A1 - Padmanabham, G. A1 - Riedel, F. A1 - Puschmann, M. T1 - Online monitoring of cold metal transfer (CMT) process using infrared thermography N2 - Online (passive) thermographic inspection of overlap joints of aluminium and zinc coated steel sheets made by cold metal Transfer weld brazing process was explored. Different experimental Trials were conducted for demonstrating the feasibility of thermographic inspection to detect the porosities, improper weld bead and to differentiate the pre weld temperature. The whole process was monitored using infrared cameras in different wavelength region. Image analysis algorithms were developed to reconstruct the thermal images that contain the signatures of the weld defects and to extract the pre weld temperature and ist evolution with distance from the centre of the weld torch. Post-weld radiography lends strong Support to the observations. KW - Infrared thermography KW - Dissimilar joints KW - Online monitoring KW - Cold metal transfer process PY - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/17686733.2016.1229330 SN - 1768-6733 SN - 2116-7176 VL - 14 IS - 1 SP - 68 EP - 78 PB - Taylor & Francis AN - OPUS4-38910 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -