scholarly journals Comparison between PCA analysis and Grey based Taguchi analysis of TIG welding process parameters on Duplex stainless steel

Author(s):  
Sandip Mondal ◽  
Goutam Nandi ◽  
Pradip Kumar Pal

Tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding on Duplex stainless steel (DSS) is more easy, comfortable and useful, if the process is precisely understood and controlled through development of the science & technology. TIG welding on DSS has been performed with the help of specific controlled welding process parameters. Welding quality has been strongly depended on these process parameters. In this study, some valuable welding parameters are chosen. These are welding current, shielding gas flow rate and speed of welding. These process parameters of TIG welding for ASTM/UNS 2205 DSS welds are optimized by using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method and Grey based Taguchi’s L9 Orthogonal array (OA) experimental plan with the conception of signal to noise ratio (N/S). After that, compression results of above mentioned two analyses of TIG welding process parameters have been calculated. The quality of the TIG welding on DSS has been evaluated in term of ultimate tensile strength, yield strength and percentage of elongation. Compression results of both analyses indicate application feasibility for continuous improvement of welding quality on DSS in different components of chemical, oil and gas industries.

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karthimani T ◽  
Babu N

This works aims at the analysis and optimization of joining similar grades of stainless steel by TIG welding. TIG welding may use a filler material. There is a variant in the process which does not require filler material. Such process is known as Autogenous TIG welding process. The parameters like current, welding speed and gas flow rate are the variables in the study. The objective of this research is to determine the influence of various welding parameters on the weld bead of 316 SS by using Taguchi technique. A plan of experiments based on Taguchi technique method has been carried out. Orthogonal array, signal to noise (S/N) Ratio, Analysis of variance (ANOVA) are employed for studying the welding characteristics of material & to optimize the weld parameters. The result obtained are the output from each parameter, through which optimal parameters are found out for maximum tensile strength. It is found that -welding current followed by welding speed are major parameters influencing mechanical properties of welded joint


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.


2014 ◽  
Vol 936 ◽  
pp. 1759-1763
Author(s):  
Qian Qian Wu ◽  
Ji Hye Lee ◽  
Jong Pyo Lee ◽  
Min Ho Park ◽  
Young Su Kim ◽  
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Gas Metal Arc (GMA) welding is considered as a multi-parameter process that it’s hard to find optimal parameters for good welding. To overcome the problem, an artificial neural network based on the backpropagation algorithm was built to realize the relationships between process parameters and welding quality as output parameter. In this study, Mahalanobis Distance (MD) was employed to evaluate the availability of a given welding parameters which was proved to performance well in multivariate statistics. Input parameters such as welding current and arc voltage were chosen due to their significant influence on the welding quality. To improve the precision of given parameters’ evaluation, neural networks with different configurations were verified. The analyses on the measured and predicted MD by the proposed neural network were conducted. The proposed neural network based on the error backpropogation algorithm was proved to have high reliability to evaluate process parameters, which further makes it available in on-line monitoring system.


2019 ◽  
Vol 969 ◽  
pp. 744-749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shubhash Chandra Moi ◽  
Ramesh Rudrapati ◽  
Asish Bandyopadhyay ◽  
Pradip Kumar Pal

Present study is planned to analyze the effects of welding process parameters on quality characteristics of TIG welded 316L austenitic stainless steels (ASS). The input parameters considered in the study are: welding current, speed and gas flow rate. Butt-joints of ASS sheets have been made as per Box-Behnken design of response surface methodology (RSM). After welding operation, tensile tests have been conducted on welded samples and observations of ultimate tensile strength (UTS) has been noted. Mathematical modeling has been made to relate the input parameters and output response by RSM. Teaching leaning-based optimization (TLBO) approach has been used to optimize the UTS. The influences of input welding parameters on UTS has been studied and analyzed through contour plots. Confirmatory tests have been conducted to validate the predicted parametric condition obtained by integrated RSM and TLBO. From the study, it is found that RSM and TLBO is efficient to maximize UTS in TIG welding operation.


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.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.6) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
P Jerold Jose ◽  
M Dev Anand

In this research, the effects of heat input on tensile properties and microstructure were investigated for super alloy Inconel-718 sheets weld by Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding process. The tensile properties and microstructure of weld joints were evaluated. The experiment was conducted with six different combinations of welding parameters like welding current, voltage and welding speed, which were give in six different welding heat input combinations of welding parameters. The experimental results shows that the welding joints weld with low welding heat input was yield higher tensile properties. From the experimentation it was understand that the tensile properties increases when the welding heat input decrease. Drastic grain coarsening was evidenced when the heat input was increases. For the weld joints experimented in this research it was also observed that amount of laves phase was increased with increase in the welding heat input which is the major fact for noticeable variation in the ultimate tensile strength of the weld joints welded by TIG welding process with different welding heat input. 


2007 ◽  
Vol 26-28 ◽  
pp. 507-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.J. Kim ◽  
Y.R. Son ◽  
J.O. Yun ◽  
Jeong Soo Lee

The membrane, which forms the primary barrier of the cargo tank onboard LNG carrier, is made of corrugated sheets, angle pieces and sealing caps and so on. These components are manufactured from SUS 304L sheets of 1.2mm thickness and assembled by the plasma welding. There are several welding defects such as overlap, excessive convexity, excessive concavity of weld and incomplete inclusion in the plasma welding. These unacceptable portions of the weld should be removed and repaired in order to prevent propagation of the defects. So a study is undertaken to determine the optimum process parameters such as the welding current, traveling speed, gas flow rates and frequency in the plasma lap welding process for LNG ships in order to prevent these defects. The polished and etched surface of the welded membrane sheet is examined if the cross section shows a properly made weld. And the tensile tests are conducted to consider if the tensile strength is less than the minimum required for the parent metal of the membrane sheet.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeraj Sharma ◽  
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Wathiq Sleam Abduallah ◽  
Manish Garg ◽  
Rahul Dev Gupta ◽  
...  

Tungsten Inert Gas welding is a fusion welding process having very wide industrial applicability. In the present study, an attempt has been made to optimize the input process variables (electrode diameter, shielding gas, gas flow rate, welding current, and groove angle) that affect the output responses, i.e., hardness and tensile strength at weld center of the weld metal SS202. The hardness is measured using Vicker hardness method; however, tensile strength is evaluated by performing tensile test on welded specimens. Taguchi based design of experiments was used for experimental planning, and the results were studied using analysis of variance. The results show that, for tensile strength of the welded specimens, welding current and electrode diameter are the two most significant factors with P values of 0.002 and 0.030 for mean analysis, whereas higher tensile strength was observed when the electrode diameter used was 1.5 mm, shielding gas used was helium, gas flow rate was 15 L/min, welding current was 240A, and a groove angle of 60o was used. Welding current was found to be the most significant factor with a P value of 0.009 leading to a change in hardness at weld region. The hardness at weld region tends to decrease significantly with the increase in welding current from 160-240A. The different shielding gases and groove angle do not show any significant effect on tensile strength and hardness at weld center. These response variables were evaluated at 95% confidence interval, and the confirmation test was performed on suggested optimal process variable. The obtained results were compared with estimated mean value, which were lying within ±5%.


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