Method of Evaluating Shear Strengths in Contour Laser Transmission Welding
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Abstract
Laser transmission welding is a relatively new technique for joining thermoplastic components in the automotive industry. Laser energy is passed through a laser-transparent part and dissipated as heat in a laser-absorbent component. There is currently no standardized test to assess the strength of laser transmission welds made using thermoplastic materials. A properly-designed test allows the weld strength of the joint to be measured accurately and rapidly. This paper reports on a technique for measuring overlap shear strength. This study compares two weld orientations (weld line parallel and perpendicular to assembly loading) using polycarbonate, polypropylene, polyamide 6, polyamide 6 reinforced with 30% glass fibres and polyamide mXD6 reinforced with 50% glass fibres. Assemblies were made using a range of laser powers. In order to simulate industrial conditions, artificial gaps were also introduced between the transparent and absorbent parts. Both weld orientations provided similar results when no gap was present between the transparent and absorbent parts. Weld orientations parallel to the direction of loading were observed to give more reliable results once a gap is placed between the parts. The importance of test specimen dimensions to prevent assembly failure in the bulk material during testing and the effect of other geometric parameters are also discussed.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".