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Figure 8 Examples of templates for characteristic welding defects like a crack (upper right) and incomplete penetration of various sizes The SSDA method requires a set of templates representing characteristic welding defects. Although the defect size is important, we realized that a small number of templates is sufficient for obtaining good results. Examples of characteristic templates representing defects of incomplete penetration and a crack are given in Figure 8.