Investigation of Hardening Law on Welding Residual Stress Analysis for Nickel Based Alloy 82 Weld Metal

Author(s):  
Mitsuru Ejiri ◽  
Teppei Kubota ◽  
Yukihiro Soga ◽  
Nozomi Nishihara ◽  
Nobuyoshi Yanagida ◽  
...  

Abstract There are three types of hardening laws for evaluating welding residual stress with the finite element method (FEM): kinematic hardening law, isotropic hardening law, and combined hardening law that combine these. The purpose of this paper is to investigate which hardening law is more appropriate for the evaluation of welding residual stress of alloy 82. We first performed two types of welding tests: welding both ends of a plate, and welding the periphery of a disc. We then compared the results of mock-up welding tests with the analysis results of welding residual stress with the kinematic hardening law and combined hardening law. Both the kinematic hardening law and the combined hardening law showed a welding residual stress distribution close to the results of the mock-up welding tests, but the combined hardening law tended to be closer to the mock-up results. Therefore when it is necessary to confirm the welding residual stress of alloy 82, it is considered appropriate to apply the combined hardening law.

Author(s):  
Martina M. Joosten ◽  
Martin S. Gallegillo

The presence of residual stresses can significantly affect the performance of manufactured products. The welding process is one of the most common causes of large tensile residual stresses, which may contribute to failure by brittle fracture or cause other forms of failure such as damage by corrosion and creep. Welding is a widely used method of fabrication and it can generate high levels of residual stress over significant proportions of the thickness of a component. In order to study the effect of material characterisation on computer based predictions of welding residual stresses, the presented work was carried out as part of the European Network on Neutron Techniques Standardisation for Structural Integrity (NeT). Within the NeT, a task group is investigating a three-pass Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) weld benchmark. The three-pass specimen offers the possibility of examining the cyclic hardening and annealing behaviour of the weld metal and heat affected zone. A 3D model of the benchmark NeT problem was set up using ABAQUS v6.9.1 and validated against measurements. This paper presents the finite element work. Future papers from the NeT shall present experimental measurements. Different hardening models were considered in order to study their effect on the residual stresses. The different hardening models were isotropic hardening, linear and nonlinear kinematic hardening and combinations of these. Also the effect of annealing on the hardening behaviour is studied. Finally, the results of the simulations are compared to residual stress distributions as given in several standards.


2000 ◽  
Vol 123 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Song ◽  
Dong Qian ◽  
Jian Cao ◽  
Wing Kam Liu ◽  
Shaofan Li

A study on the prediction of springback angle is presented, with focus on the straight flanging operation. The objective of this work is to evaluate the reliability of different methods of prediction. An experiment of straight flanging operation is conducted. Major prediction approaches such as analytical model, numerical simulation using the Finite Element Method (FEM) and the Meshfree Method using the Reproducing Kernel Particle Methods (RKPM) are discussed. A set of sample problems is computed and comparisons are made with the experiment. The numerical analysis shows that the prediction from the 3D meshfree contact code matches well with the data from the FEM 2D solid model. A material property described by the kinematic hardening law provides a better prediction of springback than the isotropic hardening law.


Author(s):  
Tao Zhang ◽  
F. W. Brust ◽  
Gery Wilkowski

Weld residual stresses in nuclear power plant can lead to cracking concerns caused by stress corrosion. These are large diameter thick wall pipe and nozzles. Many factors can lead to the development of the weld residual stresses and the distributions of the stress through the wall thickness can vary markedly. Hence, understanding the residual stress distribution is important to evaluate the reliability of pipe and nozzle joints with welds. This paper represents an examination of the weld residual stress distributions which occur in various different size nozzles. The detailed weld residual stress predictions for these nozzles are summarized. Many such weld residual stress solutions have been developed by the authors in the last five years. These distributions will be categorized and organized in this paper and general trends for the causes of the distributions will be established. The residual stress field can therefore feed into a crack growth analysis. The solutions are made using several different constitutive models such as kinematic hardening, isotropic hardening, and mixed hardening model. Necessary fabrication procedures such as repair, overlay and post weld heat treatment are also considered. Some general discussions and comments will conclude the paper.


Author(s):  
Hiroto Itoh ◽  
Jinya Katsuyama ◽  
Kunio Onizawa

Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) has been observed at some piping joints made by Austenitic stainless steel in BWR plants. In JAEA, we have been developing probabilistic fracture mechanics (PFM) analysis methods for aged piping based on latest aging knowledge and an analytical code, PASCAL-SP. PASCAL-SP evaluates the failure probability of piping at aged welded joints under SCC by a Monte Carlo method. We proposes a simplified probabilistic model which can be applied to the failure probability analysis based on PFM for welded joint of piping considering the uncertainty of welding residual stress. And the probabilistic evaluation model is introduced to PASCAL-SP. A parametric PFM analysis concerning uncertainties of residual stress distribution using PASCAL-SP was performed. The PFM analysis showed that the uncertainties of residual stress distribution largely influenced break probability. The break probability increased with increasing the uncertainties of residual stress.


2014 ◽  
Vol 501-504 ◽  
pp. 574-577
Author(s):  
Zhuang Nan Zhang ◽  
Xin Zhao ◽  
Ya Nan Zhao

This paper used ANSYS finite element software to simulate the residual stress of the welded monosymmetric I-section and obtain residual stress distribution curves, analyzed the influence of flange width ratio on welding residual stress peak value and the stress distribution. The studies have shown that: with the flange width ratio decrease gradually, peak value of residual stress in flange and web is to increase; peak value of residual tensile stresses in both flange and web close to the steel yield strength fy, peak value of residual compressive stresses is 0.4fy in wide flange and the web near wide flange and in narrow flange and web near narrow flange is 0.3fy; the distribution of the residual tensile stress in the flange and web have growth trend.


2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (25n27) ◽  
pp. 4075-4080
Author(s):  
SANG-HYONG LEE ◽  
KYONG-HO CHANG ◽  
GAB-CHUL JANG

Steel bridges increased considerably since 1960's in Japan. That is due to the lightness and long trend in bridge construction. Bridges, which are damaged by an increase in vehicle load, corrosion, earthquake, and so on, need repairing or strengthening. Repair procedures of steel bridge generally include cutting, bolting and welding procedures. These procedures, cutting, bolting and welding, occasionally bring about a stress concentration within the limit range. So, a chain of confirmation against the safety of structure is necessary. A safety evaluation method, which has regard to heat effect, is necessary to repair damaged structure with welding. Generalized welding residual stress is useful employ, to estimate the safety of structure during the repair work with welding. This research investigates the features of thermal stress generated by welding. The pattern of welding residual stress distribution was classified according to the ratio between length and width of plate. With those results, the features of residual stress generated by welding were generalized.


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