Download or read book Ninth International Conference on Computer Technology in Welding written by T. Siewert and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the 9th conference in this series, held Sept. 28-30, 1999, in Detroit, MI, under the sponsorship of the American Welding Soc., NIST, and The Welding Institute. There were 57 papers grouped into sessions on resistance weld simulation, simulation of gas metal arc welding, modeling of weld shape and distortion, modeling of solidification, general modeling, welding documentation, sensing and control of arc quality, droplet control and process automation, automation communication and interfaces, and documentation and database applications. These proceedings include the 39 printed manuscripts that were submitted (including the viewgraphs from the two tutorials on weld cell communication issues and on web page design).