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D.H. Lammlein PhD Dissertation - Vanderbilt University

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and tooling. Torque is highly dependent on the surface area of the weld interface (or the<br />

tool contact area) and this value increases in a reliable fashion with penetration depth for<br />

a conical tool. For this reason, torque is a reliable indicator of penetration depth and a<br />

torque based control algorithm is especially effective for reliably following the desired<br />

depth path with a conical tool.<br />

Figure 122: Conical tool, unsupported, partial penetration welds were performed at four<br />

depths at the 10.8ipm and 1000rpm parameter setting and showed a consistent increase<br />

in axial force with penetration depth.<br />

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