Spot weldingSpot welding (or resistance spot welding) is a type of electric resistance welding used to weld various sheet metal products, through a process in which contacting metal surface points are joined by the heat obtained from resistance to electric current. The process uses two shaped copper alloy electrodes to concentrate welding current into a small "spot" and to simultaneously clamp the sheets together. Work-pieces are held together under pressure exerted by electrodes. Typically the sheets are in the thickness range.
Grenaillagevignette|250px|Grenaillage de billes de verre. 1 Trajectoire de la bille de verre. 2 Bille. 3 La surface est écrouie en surface. 4 Métal. Le grenaillage est une technique consistant à projeter, à l'aide d'une grenailleuse, des micro-billes sur la surface d’un objet pour en modifier la structure superficielle. Le grenaillage angulaire désigne aussi les décapages faits par projection de particules abrasives n'ayant pas la forme d'une bille (couramment appelé sablage).
Semiparametric modelIn statistics, a semiparametric model is a statistical model that has parametric and nonparametric components. A statistical model is a parameterized family of distributions: indexed by a parameter . A parametric model is a model in which the indexing parameter is a vector in -dimensional Euclidean space, for some nonnegative integer . Thus, is finite-dimensional, and . With a nonparametric model, the set of possible values of the parameter is a subset of some space , which is not necessarily finite-dimensional.
