RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Assessment of resistance spot welding quality based on ultrasonictesting and tree-based techniques A1 Martín, Óscar A1 Pereda, María A1 Santos Martín, José Ignacio A1 Galán Ordax, José Manuel K1 Resistance spot welding K1 Non-destructive ultrasonic testing K1 Random forest technique K1 CART trees K1 Classification K1 Quality control K1 Empresas-Gestión K1 Industrial management AB Classification and regression tree (CART) and random forest techniques were proposed as pattern recognition tools for classification of ultrasonic oscillograms of resistance spot welding (RSW) joints. The results showed that CART models produced an acceptable error rate with high interpretability. These features may be used to understand and control the decision processes, instruct other human operators, compare margins of safety or modify them depending on the criticality of the industrial process. Compared with CART trees, random forests reduced the error rate at the cost of decreasing decision interpretability. The use of the agreement of the forest was proposed as a measure to reduce the workload of human operators, who would only have to focus on the analysis of ultrasonic oscillograms that are difficult to interpret PB Elsevier SN 0924-0136 YR 2014 FD 2014-11 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/3837 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/3837 LA eng NO MICINN (Project CSD2010‐00034, SimulPast CONSOLIDER‐INGENIO 2010), Junta de Castilla y León (GREX251‐2009) DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos RD 26-abr-2024