The mission of the Laboratory for R&D in Welding is to promote high quality research and technological innovations in arc and plasma welding, to assist industry in implementing intelligent controllers for welding processes, and to provide graduate and undergraduate education in metal joining technology. The laboratory is equipped with three fully computerized welding cells (gas metal arc welding, gas tungsten arc welding, and plasma arc welding), three high power PC-based data acquisition systems, and extensive sensing and diagnostics instrumentation.

Projects related to welding are:

Development of Laser-Plasma Arc Welding Technology

Stability Control of Weld Penetration in Variable Polarity Plasma Arc Welding in Welding of Aluminum

Sensing and Control of Weld Penetration

Post-weld Quality Inspection

Seam Tracking Based on Machine Vision

Sensing and Control of Metal Transfer in Gas Metal Arc Welding
Modulated Pulsed Gas Metal Arc Welding in Welding of Aluminum

Numerical and Experimental Study of the Transport Phenomena in Plasma Arc Welding

Droplet Formation, Detachment, and Impingement on the Molten Pool in Gas Metal Arc Welding 

Examples of RCAM GMAW welding technology:

Patented Active Metal Transfer Control in GMAW (U.S. Patent No. 6,013,896)

Heat and Mass Transfer Control in GMAW