APPLICATIONOFTHEMOMENTMETHODFOROPTIMIZATIONOFWELDINGPROCESSES.docVIP

APPLICATION OF THE MOMENT METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION OF WELDING PROCESSES V. Melyukov Vyatka State University, Kirov, Russia The technology of various kinds of materials treatment by concentrated sources of energy (mechanical, heat treatment, welding, build-up welding, thermal cutting etc.) is characterized by existence of the general problem of determination of the mode ensuring the necessary or the closest to the desired mechanical and operating properties of the material being processed. In developing technological processes of materials treatment by concentrated energy sources the problem of the mode determination is often solved by empirical methods depending on the experience and knowledge of the technologist with further experimental check of the selected modes. The modes in this case are chosen from the reference book, available data, recommendations or are prescribed proceeding from the accumulated technological experience and then the mode is adjusted on full-scale specimens. The mode is also often determined by computational methods developed in the theory of thermal welding processes (1). These methods allow to determine the mode of materials treatment by concentrated energy sources on the basis of a computational experiment on solution of a direct problem of thermal conductivity , where A is the integral operator establishing the correspondence between the input value (cause of the thermal process) and the output (consequence of the thermal process). A PROBLEM OF THE CONTROL OF WELDING PROCESS The direct problem of thermal conductivity does not break the cause-and-effect relation typical of a real thermal process: “source-temperature field”. However, analysis of approaches and ways of determining the mode show that the problem of mode determination by its setting is an inverse problem characterized by a breakdown of the cause-and-effect relation of a real thermal process. In formulation of the problem of the mode determination it is necessary to resto