Ultranarrow Gap Welding with Constrained Arc by Flux Strips

2012 ◽  
Vol 472-475 ◽  
pp. 2814-2818
Author(s):  
Liang Zhu ◽  
Yan Li Pan ◽  
Yuan Bo Li

Ultranarrow gap welding with the gap of less than 5mm was executed successfully. In order to prevent the arc from being attracted by sidewall and going up along the sidewall, the flux strips consisting of the specified aggregates are placed onto the sidewalls to constrain the arc. This technique was tested on the welding experiment of pipeline steel with thickness of 30mm. The involved welding parameters were obtained. The width of gap is 4mm, the welding voltage 20~24V, and the heat input 0.6 KJ/mm. The cross sections of weld profile were analyzed. The width of heat affected zone is relatively narrow and about 1.3mm, and the weld hardness is much higher than that of HAZ and base metal.

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-98
Author(s):  
Pavol Švec ◽  
Viliam Hrnčiar ◽  
Alexander Schrek

AbstractThe effects of beam power and welding speed on microstructure, microhardnes and tensile strength of HCT600X laser welded steel sheets were evaluated. The welding parameters influenced both the width and the microstructure of the fusion zone and heat affected zone. The welding process has no effect on tensile strength of joints which achieved the strength of base metal and all joints fractured in the base metal.


2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
Singh Pratap ◽  
Judit Kovácsb

The development of high strength aluminium alloy has revolutionized the automotive industry with innovative manufacturing and technological process to provide high-performance components, weight reduction and also diversified the application field and design consideration for the automotive parts that work under severe conditions, but the selection of proper production parameters is most challenging task to get excellent results. Growing industrial demand of aluminium alloys led to the development of new welding technologies, processes and studies of various parameters effects for its intended purposes. The microstructural changes lead to loss of hardening and thereby mechanical strength in the HAZ welded joint even though the base materials are heat treatable and precipitation hardened. So, our goal is to analyse HAZ softening and analyse the sub-zones as a function of the parameter. In this paper, the influence of weld heat cycle on the heat-affected zone (HAZ) is physically simulated for Tungsten Inert Gas Welding (TIG) using Gleeble 3500 thermomechanical simulator for three different automotive aluminium alloy (AA5754-H22, AA6082-T6 & AA7075-T6) plate of 1 mm thickness. In order to simulate the sub-zones of the heat-affected zone, samples were heated to four different HAZ peak temperatures (550 °C, 440 °C, 380 °C and 280 °C), two linear heat input (100 J/mm and 200 J/mm) by the application of Rykalin 2D model. A series of experiments were performed to understand the behaviour, which make it possible to measure the objective data on the basis of the obtained image of the aluminium alloys tested with heat-affected zone tests in a Gleeble 3500 physical simulator. The main objective is to achieve the weldability of three different automotive aluminium alloys and their comparison based on the welding parameters like heat input. Further, the investigation of HAZ softening and microstructure of the specimens were tested and analysed using Vicker's hardness test and optical microscope respectively. The paper focuses on HAZ softening analysis of different grades of aluminium alloys for automotive application.


Author(s):  
Hongsheng Lu ◽  
Yonghe Yang ◽  
Gang Chen ◽  
Xu Chen ◽  
Xin Wang

Evaluation of mechanical performance of different regions can be difficult by using standard size samples due to the size limitation of weld metal and heat-affected zone (HAZ). At first, the microstructure of different regions was characterized and quantified by Scanning Electron Microscope, which indicate that the pipeline steel is a typical acicular ferrite steel. In this study the deformation behavior of different regions (base metal, weld metal and heat affected zone) in a welded joint of API X80 pipeline steel were studied by conducting uniaxial loading tests on miniature specimens with the cross section of 2×0.5mm and gauge length of 9mm. From the results of uniaxial tension in base metal and weld metal it is shown that the welding is overmatching. Compared to the base metal, the coarse grained HAZ exhibits a lower strength, while the fine grained HAZ exhibits a higher strength. Under near zero-to-tension cyclic stress loading, all regions of the welded joints exhibit progressive accumulation of plastic strain. Under the same stress level, the base metal shows the fastest ratcheting strain accumulation, which is the result of lower strength than other regions. This fact may indicate that the ratcheting behavior of the overall welded joint is highly dependence on that of base metal for the present case. But when under the same normalized stress level (σ = σ/σYS), the fine grained HAZ has the highest ratcheting strain accumulation, while the coarse grained HAZ has the lowest ratcheting strain accumulation, which reveals that the intrinsic resistance to ratcheting is yield strength dependent.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Lopez ◽  
Arturo Reyes ◽  
Patricia Zambrano

ABSTRACTThe effect of the heat input on the mechanical and metallurgical properties of the welds has been investigated in the heat affected zone (HAZ) of welds joined with gas metal arc welding (GMAW), using normal production welding parameters. The thermal effect in the HAZ of the welds is important for the optimization of the welding parameters used when weld transformed induced plasticity (TRIP) steels, because this will have a great influence in the mechanical and metallurgical properties of the weld. In this work 3 samples was welded a high, average and low heat input, with the variation of welding parameters to obtain different thermal affectation to investigate the variations in different parts of weld joint: weld, HAZ and base metal, due the heat applied for the welding process used. Mechanical properties were evaluated by tension test, microhardness and fatigue testing and metallurgical evaluation with optical metallograpy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), fractograpy and X-Ray diffraction (XRD).The results obtained shows that the mechanical properties of the tension test decrease when the heat input increase and the microhardness exhibit a softening zone in the HAZ with lower hardness and the fatigue life were similar for all heat inputs for the high stress levels, but only in low stress there is a difference. For metallurgical properties the metallographic evaluation shows ferrite, bainite - martensite and retained austenite, and the fractography analysis exhibit a ductile fracture in all cases and the content in volume fraction of retained austenite increases in the HAZ of welds when increasing heat input in to the base metal due the thermal effect.


Author(s):  
Yu Shi ◽  
Rihong Han ◽  
Jiankang Huang ◽  
Shao Yan

Based on the features of double electrode gas metal arc welding (DE-GMAW), a new hybrid heat-source model for DE-GMAW was proposed. Using this heat-source model, the temperature fields of DE-GMAW with different welding parameters were simulated. According to the simulation results with different welding parameters, the influence of welding parameters to the heat input to base metal in DE-GMAW were analyzed. To verify the rationality of the hybrid heat-source model of DE-GMAW, the simulation results of the temperature field were compared with the experimental results with same welding parameters. The research results indicate that under the same total current, the heat input to base metal decrease gradually with the increase of by-pass current. In addition, the closer to the welding line from the measured point the greater decrease rate of the heat input to base metal. By the study and comparison of the thermal cycle curve of measured points, the simulation results were in good agreement with the experimental results. These results indicate that the calculated temperature field is accurate and the hybrid heat-source model is rational.


2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1810-1821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Nan Wang ◽  
Yan-Jun Zhao ◽  
Peng-Fei Guo ◽  
Xiao-Nan Qi ◽  
Hong-Shuang Di ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 773-774 ◽  
pp. 795-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gui Ying Qiao ◽  
Ming Zheng ◽  
Yu Gu ◽  
Xiu Lin Han ◽  
Xu Wang ◽  
...  

The microstructure and mechanical properties of an X100 grade pipeline steel were investigated by the thermal simulation tests performed on a Gleeble-3500 thermal simulator. The results show that the steel has excellent weldability. Even if the weld heat input gets 40 kJ mm-1, the low impact toughness energy in welding coarse grain heat affected zone (CGHAZ) is still higher than 200 J. Yet, an embrittlement zone emerges in inter-critical HAZ (ICHAZ) at the peak temperature of 750 °C, and the lowest strength appears in fine grained HAZ (FGHAZ) at the peak temperature of 950 °C. Moreover, the strength and toughness decrease with the increase of heat input.


2012 ◽  
Vol 538-541 ◽  
pp. 1478-1483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Qun Yin ◽  
Hong Hong Wang ◽  
Yong Kuan Yao ◽  
Li Li ◽  
Xuan Wei Lei ◽  
...  

Welding thermal cycle simulation with the heat input of 12~25 kJ/cm and practical welding were undertaken to investigate the weldability of a Zr-Ti microalloyed pipeline steel X120. The microstructure in the simulated coarse-grained heat-affected zone was predominantly bainite. The Vickers hardness and room temperature impact toughness of simulated coarse-grained heat-affected zone is 276~297 (HV10) and 208~225 J, respectively. These results indicated that the X120 steel had good weldability. Practical plate welding with the heat input of 21 kJ/cm also showed that the Zr-Ti microalloyed pipeline steel X120 had high yeild strength (895 MPa) and low temperature (-30°C) impact toughness (183 J, 204 J and 208 J in the fusion line, coarse-grained heat-affected zone and fine-grained heat-affected zone, respectively).


2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Khairmen Suardi ◽  
Faris Fadli

AbstrakHead pada pressure vessel yang berbentuk melengkung, seperti: hemispherical, torispherical, dan ellipsoidal dapat dibuat dari pelat dengan lebar 2.5 m yang mengalami proses metal forming. Namun, pelat yang tersedia di pasaran pada umumnya memiliki lebar 1,6 m. Kondisi ini menjadi batasan apabila ingin menggunakan satu material pelat secara integral sehingga dibutuhkan pelat untuk membuat head dengan lebar yang lebih besar. Oleh karena itu, untuk membuat head dengan lebar 2,5 m dilakukan proses cold forming pada dua pelat yang dilas. Namun setelah proses dilakukan, terjadi kegagalan berupa timbulnya retakan di sekitar area las. Pada paper ini akan dibahas analisis kegagalan proses cold forming yang terjadi pada dua pelat ASME SA516 grade 70N yang digunakan sebagai base metal. Untuk menganalisis penyebab kegagalan, maka dilakukan pengujian kekerasan, tarik, metalografi, dan komposisi kimia. Selain itu juga dilakukan perhitungan untuk mengetahui nilai crack consists of hot (UCS), cold cracking (Pcm), dan carbon equivalent (CE). Hasil perhitungan menunjukkan bahwa material tersebut memiliki nilai UCS di bawah 30, nilai Pcm berada di antara 0,23-0,35%, serta berada di zona II pada diagram Graville dimana nilai tersebut menunjukkan bahwa material memiliki kemampulasan  yang baik. Sementara dari hasil pengujian mekanis didapatkan nilai kekerasan dan kekuatan tarik yang lebih besar dari standar, yaitu masing-masing sebesar 300 HBW dan 621 Mpa dengan nilai elongasi yang masih tinggi, yaitu  sebesar 21,8%. Hasil pengamatan metalografi menunjukkan terbentuk fase martensit namun dalam jumlah yang sedikit pada area heat affected zone (HAZ) dengan bentuk butir seperti jarum. Fase martensit ini berperan sebagai stress concentration yang menjadi titik awal retak ketika proses cold forming dilakukan. Terbentuknya fasa martensit ini disebabkan oleh proses preheat yang tidak sesuai serta heat input yang terlalu besar. Abstract             The head on a pressure vessel with curved shapes such as hemispherical, torispherical, and ellipsoidal is derived from the formed plate. Generally the plates available in the market have a width of 1.6 m, this condition becomes a limitation if you want to use one plate material integrally so that a plate is needed to make a head with a larger width. Therefore, to make a head with a width of 2.5 m, a cold forming process is carried out on two welded plates. However, after the process is carried out, failure occurs in the form of cracks around the weld area. In this paper, we will discuss the failure analysis of the cold forming process that occurred on two ASME SA516 grade 70N plates used as base metal. In order to analyze the causes of failure, hardness, tensile, metallographic, and chemical composition tests were carried out. In addition, calculations were also carried out to determine the value of crack consists of hot (UCS), cold cracking (Pcm), and carbon equivalent (CE). From the calculation results it is evident that the material has a UCS value below 30, the PCm value is between 0.23-0.35%, and is in zone II on the Graville diagram where this value indicates that the material has good weldability. Meanwhile, from the results of mechanical testing, the hardness and tensile strength values are greater than the standard, which are 300 HBW and 621 Mpa, respectively, with a high elongation value, which is 21.8%. The results of metallographic observations showed that the martensite phase was formed but in small amounts in the heat affected zone (HAZ) area with needle-like grain shapes. This martensite phase acts as a stress concentration which is the starting point for cracks when the cold forming process is carried out. The formation of the martensite phase is caused by an inappropriate preheat process and the heat input is too large.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document