scholarly journals Optimization of MIG Welding Process Parameters on AISI 304 Stainless Steel Using Taguchi Method and Fuzzy Logic

Author(s):  
S. Vani
Author(s):  
Gurinder Singh Brar ◽  
Manpreet Singh ◽  
Ajay Singh Jamwal

AISI 304 stainless steel is one of the grades of steel widely used in engineering applications particularly in chemical equipments, food processing, pressure vessels and paper industry. Friction crush welding (FCW) is type of friction welding, where there is a relative motion between the tool and work-piece. In FCW process, the edges of the work-piece to be joined are prepared with flanged edges and then placed against each other. A non-consumable friction disc tool will transverse with a constant feed rate along the edges of the work-piece, which leads to welding. The joint is formed by the action of crushing a certain amount of additional flanged material into the gap formed by the contacting material. The novelty of present work is that FCW removes the limitations of friction stir welding and Steel work pieces can be economically welded by FCW. Taguchi method of Design of Experiments (DOE) is used to find optimal process parameters of Friction Crush Welding (FCW). A L9 Orthogonal Array, Signal to Noise ratio (S/N) and Analysis of Variance are applied to analyze the effect of welding parameters (welding speed, RPM, tool profile) on the weld properties like bond strength. Grain refinement takes place in friction crush welding as is seen in friction stir welding. Friction crush welding process also has added advantage in reducing distortion and residual stresses.


2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 957-961
Author(s):  
Nursel Altan Özbek ◽  
Metin İbrahim Karadag ◽  
Onur Özbek

Abstract This paper presents the effect of cutting tool, cutting speed and feed rate on the flank wear and surface roughness of austenitic stainless steel (AISI 304) during wet turning. Turning tests were designed based on the Taguchi method (L18). An orthogonal array, the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) and the ANOVA were used to investigate the machinability of AISI 304 stainless steel with PVD and CVD coated tungsten carbide inserts. As a result of ANOVA, it was found that the feed rate was the most effective parameter on both flank wear and surface roughness.


2012 ◽  
Vol 626 ◽  
pp. 518-522
Author(s):  
Hsuan Liang Lin ◽  
Zhau Hong Hsu ◽  
Wun Kai Wang

The purpose of this work is to investigate the effects of activating flux on the penetration, depth-to-width ratio (DWR), angular distortion and hardness of Inconel 718 alloy and AISI 304 stainless steel (SS) dissimilar welds in the tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding process. In the activated TIG (A-TIG) process, the single component fluxes such as SiO2, NiO, MoO3 and MoS2 and the mixed component fluxes that using 50 % of each single component flux to create six new mixtures were used in the experiment. The experimental results showed that the A-TIG welds coated with 100% SiO2 flux was provided with best DWR of dissimilar welds. In addition, the experimental procedure of A-TIG welding process not only produced a significant increase in penetration and DWR of weld bead, but also improved the angular distortion and hardness of Inconel 718 alloy and AISI 304 SS dissimilar welds.


2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 957-961
Author(s):  
Nursel Altan Özbek ◽  
Metin İbrahim Karadag ◽  
Onur Özbek

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