scholarly journals DISSIMILAR JOINING A6061 ALUMINUM ALLOY AND SUS304 STAINLESS STEEL BY THE TUNGSTEN INERT GAS WELDING PROCESS

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (5A) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Nguyen Quoc Manh

Welding dissimilar materials has been widely applied in industries. Some of them are considered this as a strategy to develop their future technology products. Aluminum alloy and stainless steel have differences in physical, thermal, mechanical and metallurgic properties. However, selecting a suitable welding process and welding rods can solve this problem. This research aimed to investigate the T-joint welding between A6061 aluminum alloy and SUS304 stainless steel using new welding rods, Aluma-Steel by the Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding process. The mechanical properties, the characteristics of microstructure, and component analysis of the welds have been investigated by the mechanical testing, microhardness testing, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). As a result, the fracture occurred at the adjacent area between welding seam and A6061 aluminum alloy plate. The average microhardness between welding seam and SUS304 stainless steel is 279.72 HV, welding seam and A6061 aluminum alloy of 274.50 HV. A large amount of copper elements found in the welds due to using the new welding rod, Aluma-Steel rod.

2017 ◽  
Vol 904 ◽  
pp. 19-23
Author(s):  
Van Nhat Nguyen ◽  
Quoc Manh Nguyen ◽  
Dang Thi Huong Thao ◽  
Shyh Chour Huang

Welding dissimilar materials has been widely applied in industries. Some of them are considered this as a strategy to develop their future technology products. Aluminum alloy and stainless steel have differences in physical, thermal, mechanical and metallurgic properties. However, selecting a suitable welding process and welding rods can solve this problem. This research aimed to investigate the T-joint welding between A6061 aluminum alloy and SUS304 stainless steel using new welding rods, Aluma-Steel by the Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding process. The mechanical properties, the characteristics of microstructure, and component analysis of the welds have been investigated by the mechanical testing, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). As a result, the fracture occurred at the adjacent area between welding seam and A6061 alloys plate. The thermal cracking appeared at central welding-seam along the base metals if high welding current. A large amount of copper elements found in the welds due to using the new welding rod, Aluma-Steel rod.


2013 ◽  
Vol 834-836 ◽  
pp. 1553-1556
Author(s):  
Han Wu Liu ◽  
Lei Huang ◽  
Xiang Guo ◽  
Yu Long Lv

The connecting pipe in solar hot water system is made by TIG welding of thin-walled stainless steel and copper. As the welding of stainless steel and copper belongs to dissimilar metal welding and their physical properties are very different, thus the welding process is difficult and it is likely to cause a variety of defects in the welding process. In this paper, ANSYS software is used to simulate the welding process of stainless steel and copper, and the residual stress distributions in the welding process are obtained. The results show that: at the end of the welding cooling, large residual stress (253MPa) is remained in the junction area of the starting and ending position of welding, which is close to the yield strength of material at the same temperature. Therefore, there will be greater deformation in the junction area and more cracks inside. Meanwhile, the stress distributions of stainless steel and copper tubes in the welding process are greatly different. Different volume changes emerge in two tubes, which are harmful to the welding seam and also leads to the unfitness of dimensional tolerance of welding parts, resulting in the scrapping of welding parts. The results provide references and theoretical basis for the welding technology of dissimilar materials.


2013 ◽  
Vol 423-426 ◽  
pp. 788-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Han Wu Liu ◽  
Lei Huang ◽  
Wen Zai Yu ◽  
Rui Bin Ma

The connecting pipe in solar hot water system is made by TIG welding of thin-walled stainless steel and copper. As the welding of stainless steel and copper belongs to dissimilar metal welding and their physical properties are very different, thus the welding of them is difficult and it is likely to cause a variety of defects in the welding process. In this paper, ANSYS software is used to simulate the welding process of stainless steel and copper, and the temperature distributions in the welding process are obtained. The results show that: as the heat transferring of copper is faster than stainless steel, the temperature field distribution of thin-walled stainless steel and copper tubes in the welding process is extremely uneven. As a result, the melting degrees on both sides in the welding seam are inconsistent, which may cause poor forming of weld seam. The results provide references and theoretical basis for the welding technology of dissimilar materials.


1996 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. 500-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiizu OCHI ◽  
Koichi OGAWA ◽  
Yoshiaki YAMAMOTO ◽  
Shigeki HASHINAGA ◽  
Yasuo SUGA ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 197 ◽  
pp. 12007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekak Novianto ◽  
Priyo Tri Iswanto ◽  
Mudjijana Mudjijana

Aluminum alloy 5083 H116 has an exceptional performance in extreme environments, moderately high strength, outstanding corrosion resistance in salt water and high impact strength at cryogenic temperature. In the present study, Aluminum alloy AA 5083 H116 plates were joined by tungsten inert gas (TIG) process by single and double sided welding. Welding current used was 53 A and 80 A with the addition of purging gas during welding process. The effects on micro structure and mechanical properties like surface hardness and tensile strength of the welded region were studied. The results have shown that optimum current out of the two weld current used is 53 A. Better microstructures, tensile and hardness were found in the welded joint for the weld current 53 A where the tensile obtained in the softened zone was approximately 87% than that of the base metal (BM). With increasing of TIG current, the width of PMZ increased. In addition, the doubled sided welding sequence also produced broader PMZ area.


2015 ◽  
Vol 819 ◽  
pp. 45-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shamsul Baharin Jamaludin ◽  
Mohd Zahir Abd Latif ◽  
Mohd Noor Mazlee ◽  
Kamarudin Hussin

The effect of welding current on the joining of mild steel and aluminum 6063 has been investigated. The joining was carried using a tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding. The welding currents used were 30 A to 80 A. The formation of intermetallic reaction layers (IML) and tensile shear strength of the joining were investigated. The result showed that tensile shear strength increased as welding current increased up to 55 A. Microstructural analysis showed that intermetallic reaction layer was formed at the interface between steel and aluminum alloy during welding process. The thickness of IML was decreased with decreasing welding current.


Author(s):  
A. Arunmani ◽  
T. Senthilkumar

In engineering industries and heavy manufacturing plants, fatigue life of joints plays a pivotal role in determining the overall life span of the welded joint. In this paper, an advanced fusion joining technique, namely activated tungsten inert gas welding, was used for joining UNS S32750 super duplex stainless steel, with ZnO as activation flux. For the enhancement of fatigue resistance of joints, important welding process parameters were fluctuated according to a developed central composite design model. Empirical relationships were developed between the process parameters and the fatigue strength of the joints, which was correlated with the number of cycles to failure (NCF). Using analysis of variance, the significance of the developed fatigue model was ascertained. Using response surface methodology, optimization of process parameters for enhancement of fatigue resistance was done. It was observed that at the optimized activated tungsten inert gas weld process parameters of travel speed of welding torch at 69.85 mm/min, weld current at 125.20 A, and shielding gas flow rate at 14.77 L/min, a high fatigue life of 7.66396 × 108 NCF was obtained and the model was validated to very high predictability. Microstructural variations in the fatigue-tested specimens were evaluated for identifying the grain modifications.


2017 ◽  
Vol 885 ◽  
pp. 190-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Silveira Alcantara ◽  
Enikő Réka Fábián ◽  
Monika Furkó ◽  
Éva Fazakas ◽  
János Dobránszky ◽  
...  

The aim of this work was to analyze the performance of joints made by TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) welding process in austenitic and duplex stainless steels with special regards to their corrosion resistance. Three different types of stainless steel were butt welded with TIG method. Ferric-chloride test and electrochemical treatments revealed how does the TIG process affects the corrosion resistance depending upon the alloy used for welding the joint. This work focuses on the weldability of the 2304, 2404 and 304 type stainless steel heterogeneous welds.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1088 ◽  
pp. 130-134
Author(s):  
Ya Rong Wang ◽  
Yang Yu ◽  
Wei Chao Zhang

The high vacuum electron beam welding-brazing was used to joining vanadium alloy (V-5Cr-5Ti) with stainless–steel (HR-2). The temperature fields and stress distributions in the V-5Cr-5Ti/HR-2 joint during the welding process were numerically simulated and the effect of the electron beam off-set distance was studied. The results show that the accurate heat input and proper molten pool position can help to control the fusion ratio of the V/Fe. The electron beam should off set on the stainless steel side rather than vanadium alloy side, and the best range of the distances off-set is 0-0.5mm. The residual stress appears to be bimodal and asymmetric. The maximum lateral residual tensile stress reached 388MPa at the V-5Cr-5Ti side. The joints with the characters of welding and brazing and the metallurgically bonded joint was achieved with 0.3mm beam off-set. With the liquid-to-solid interalloying of dissimilar materials controlled well, a reaction zone is gained on the interface. The maximum tensile strength of vanadium alloy/stainless-steel dissimilar alloy jointswas up to 200MPa with no defect.


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