Process monitoring of friction stir blind riveting for lightweight materials

Weihong Grace Guo, Jingyu Chen, Shenghan Guo, Jingjing Li

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6 Scopus citations

Abstract

Friction stir blind riveting (FSBR) is a new process for joining automotive lightweight dissimilar materials. During FSBR, a blind rivet rotates at high speed, contacts with the upper sheet or workpiece of a lap joint, and then penetrates the workpieces. Using FSBR to join carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composite and aluminum alloy sheets has been studied experimentally, however, the quantitative relationship between the FSBR process and joint quality/strength remains unclear. To gain a better understanding of FSBR, the proposed method effectively models this relationship by integrating data de-noising, feature extraction, feature selection, and classifier fusion. Engineering-based features are extracted directly from the FSBR penetration force and torque signals; data-driven features are extracted using principal component analysis. Regression models and kernel support vector machines (SVMs) are trained and fused for quality prediction. The proposed method provides online monitoring of FSBR and prediction of joint quality.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication67th Annual Conference and Expo of the Institute of Industrial Engineers 2017
EditorsHarriet B. Nembhard, Katie Coperich, Elizabeth Cudney
PublisherInstitute of Industrial Engineers
Pages2165-2170
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9780983762461
StatePublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event67th Annual Conference and Expo of the Institute of Industrial Engineers 2017 - Pittsburgh, United States
Duration: May 20 2017May 23 2017

Publication series

Name67th Annual Conference and Expo of the Institute of Industrial Engineers 2017

Conference

Conference67th Annual Conference and Expo of the Institute of Industrial Engineers 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh
Period5/20/175/23/17

Keywords

  • Feature extraction
  • Feature selection
  • Lightweight material manufacturing
  • Process monitoring
  • Quality prediction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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