TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schopp, Christoph
A1  - Rohrbach, Felix
A1  - Langer, Luc
A1  - Heuermann, Holger
T1  - Detection of welding wire length by active S11 measurement
T2  - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
N2  - A novel method to determine the extruded length of a metallic wire for a directed energy deposition (DED) process using a microwave (MW) plasma jet with a straight-through wire feed is presented. The method is based on the relative comparison of the measured frequency response obtained by the large-signal scattering parameter (Hot-S) technique. In the practical working range, repeatability of less than 6% for a nonactive plasma and 9% for the active plasma state is found. Measurements are conducted with a focus on a simple solution to decrease the processing time and reduce the integration time of the process into the existing hardware. It is shown that monitoring a single frequency for magnitude and phase changes is sufficient to achieve good accuracy. A combination of different measurement values to determine the length is possible. The applicability to different diameter of the same material is shown as well as a contact detection of the wire and metallic substrate.
KW  - Circuit simulation
KW  - Hot S-parameter
KW  - Modeling
KW  - Plasma
KW  - Plasma diagnostics
Y1  - 2024
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.fh-aachen.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11133
SN  - 0093-3813 (Print)
SN  - 1939-9375 (Online)
IS  - Early Access
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
PB  - IEEE
ER  -