Key Technology Research of the Temperature Field Simulation Based on the Flat Butt Weld

2012 ◽  
Vol 562-564 ◽  
pp. 729-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Wen Li ◽  
Fu Xing Wang
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Temperature Field ◽  
Stress Field ◽  
Field Distribution ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
Residual Stress Field ◽  
Butt Weld ◽  
Temperature Method ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Direct Loading

Aluminum as solder, in the flat welding process, the temperature field and the residual stress field distribution was the main problem of the study; According to the actual situation of the welding process, using the direct loading temperature method and the indirect loading temperature method , the main path of temperature field distribution curves and the residual stress field distribution were gained by 2D numerical simulation respectively; Through comparison, the indirect loading method can get more accuracy of residual stress field distribution than that of the direct loading temperature method; The above methods were useful in practical production.

scholarly journals Residual stresses in thermite welded rails: significance of additional forging

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (7) ◽  
pp. 1195-1212
Author(s):  
B. Lennart Josefson ◽  
R. Bisschop ◽  
M. Messaadi ◽  
J. Hantusch
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Stress Field ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Weld Metal ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
Surface Zone ◽  
Fe Model ◽  
Uneven Surface ◽  
Residual Stress Field ◽  
High Dynamic

Abstract The aluminothermic welding (ATW) process is the most commonly used welding process for welding rails (track) in the field. The large amount of weld metal added in the ATW process may result in a wide uneven surface zone on the rail head, which may, in rare cases, lead to irregularities in wear and plastic deformation due to high dynamic wheel-rail forces as wheels pass. The present paper studies the introduction of additional forging to the ATW process, intended to reduce the width of the zone affected by the heat input, while not creating a more detrimental residual stress field. Simulations using a novel thermo-mechanical FE model of the ATW process show that addition of a forging pressure leads to a somewhat smaller width of the zone affected by heat. This is also found in a metallurgical examination, showing that this zone (weld metal and heat-affected zone) is fully pearlitic. Only marginal differences are found in the residual stress field when additional forging is applied. In both cases, large tensile residual stresses are found in the rail web at the weld. Additional forging may increase the risk of hot cracking due to an increase in plastic strains within the welded area.

The Effect of Strength Mis-Match and Residual Stress in ECA of Girth Welds With Internal Circumferential Cracks

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Mirzaee Sisan ◽  
Afshin Motarjemi
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Stress Field ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
Weld Strength ◽  
Residual Stress Field ◽  
Girth Welds ◽  
Welded Pipe

A numerical study was carried out to quantify the effect of a residual stress field on subsequent fracture behaviour of a girth welded pipe with an internal circumferential long crack when subjected to high applied strain loading. In order to introduce an initial residual stress field similar to a welding process in a pipe, a quenching process was numerically simulated and associated residual stress profiles were modified and mapped into the finite element (FE) models. A detailed comparison between the crack driving force for various cases with and without residual stress and weld strength mismatch was carried out for cases under a high plastic deformation regime. The BS7910 procedure was also used to predict crack driving forces using its current assumption of interaction of residual stress with primary loads. The results obtained from the FE analyses were compared with the BS7910 predictions.

Characterisation of the Residual Stress Field and Mechanical Properties of a Narrow-Gap Girth-Welded Stainless Steel Pipe and Subsequent Application to a Numerical Model

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. A. McCluskey ◽  
Andrew H. Sherry ◽  
Martin R. Goldthorpe
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Residual Stress ◽  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Stress Field ◽  
Steel Pipe ◽  
Primary Circuit ◽  
Narrow Gap ◽  
Residual Stress Field ◽  
Butt Weld ◽  
Stainless Steel Pipe

Girth-butt welds are used to join sections of stainless steel pipe in the primary circuit of Pressurised Water Reactors. The welding process creates residual stress fields across the weldment, which can contribute to the crack driving force when a defect is present. Assessment procedures account for such defects, enabling safety justifications to be made for continued operation of nuclear power plant. Such procedures require the size and nature of the residual stress field to be determined in order to make reliable structural integrity assessments. This paper describes the investigation of the residual stress field and fracture behaviour of a recently developed narrow-gap 304-stainless steel girth-butt weld in a primary circuit pipe. Two residual stress measurement techniques, Neutron Diffraction (ND) and incremental Deep Hole Drilling (iDHD), were used to measure the original residual stress field in the pipe weld. A second pipe weld specimen was used to fabricate tensile and fracture toughness specimens from which the mechanical properties of the weld material were determined. The residual stress and mechanical test data were used to develop numerical models of the pipe weld containing a postulated circumferential defect under an applied axial load. The numerical simulation results were applied within a failure assessment diagram, comparing different interaction parameters on the prediction of component failure load.

scholarly journals A Time Saving Method to Compute Multi-Pass Weld Residual Stresses

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lionel Depradeux ◽  
Frédérique Rossillon
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Stress Field ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
Geometrical Parameters ◽  
Residual Stress Field ◽  
Time Saving ◽  
3D Geometry ◽  
Girth Welds ◽  
Number Of Passes

In order to obtain the residual stress field resulting from the welding process, numerical simulations of multi-pass welding have demonstrated their efficiency and have become an interesting alternative to practical measurements. However, in the context of engineering studies, it remains a difficult task to compute residual stresses for a very high number of passes with reasonable computation times. In this paper, a time-saving method is proposed to simulate the welding process, ensuring an accurate reproduction of the residual stress field with drastically reduced computation times. The method consists in including in the simulation only the last deposited pass, or a reduced number of appropriately selected passes. For a given material and a given heat input, the choice of remaining passes depends on the geometrical parameters. The method is applied to various geometries of austenitic pipes girth welds, which have been widely studied in the literature and standards. The results, confronted to multipass simulations including all the passes, and to literature results, are very satisfactory. Quasi-identical residual stress fields are computed in both cases with computation times divided by a factor comprised between 7 up to 12. Further computations are in progress on other configurations than girth-weld pipes, and more complex 3D geometry like J weld of bottom head nozzles.

Thermal Simulation of an Arbitrary Residual Stress Field in a Fully or Partially Autofrettaged Thick-Walled Spherical Pressure Vessel

2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Perl
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Temperature Field ◽  
Stress Field ◽  
Pressure Vessel ◽  
Fe Analysis ◽  
Stress Fields ◽  
Equivalent Temperature ◽  
Residual Stress Field ◽  
Spherical Pressure ◽  
The Ideal

The equivalent thermal load was previously shown to be the only feasible method by which the residual stresses due to autofrettage and its redistribution, as a result of cracking, can be implemented in a finite element (FE) analysis of a fully or partially autofrettaged thick-walled cylindrical pressure vessel. The present analysis involves developing a similar methodology for treating an autofrettaged thick-walled spherical pressure vessel. A general procedure for evaluating the equivalent temperature loading for simulating an arbitrary, analytical or numerical spherosymmetric autofrettage residual stress field in a spherical pressure vessel is developed. Once presented, the algorithm is applied to two distinct cases. In the first case, an analytical expression for the equivalent thermal loading is obtained for the ideal autofrettage stress field in a spherical shell. In the second case, the algorithm is applied to the discrete numerical values of a realistic autofrettage residual stress field incorporating the Bauschinger effect. As a result, a discrete equivalent temperature field is obtained. Furthermore, a FE analysis is performed for each of the above cases, applying the respective temperature field to the spherical vessel. The induced stress fields are evaluated for each case and then compared to the original stress. The FE results prove that the proposed procedure yields equivalent temperature fields that in turn simulate very accurately the residual stress fields for both the ideal and the realistic autofrettage cases.

Finite Element Analysis of Temperature Filed and Stress Field of Reducer

2014 ◽  
Vol 881-883 ◽  
pp. 1447-1450
Author(s):  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Fei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Finite Element Analysis ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Temperature Field ◽  
Stress Field ◽  
Residual Stress Field ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Welding Temperature ◽  
Stress And Deformation ◽  
Residual Stress And Deformation

Abstract.The connection mode of reducer with straight tube on both sides are the welding connection. There are two weld at the both side of reducer and there has a great influence on residual stress and deformation in the process of welding . Based on the particularity of reducer welding, the paper is focus on the residual stress and deformation in the process of welding, using large-scale finite element analysis software ANSYS .The DN500X450 reducer model is established.The welding temperature field and residual stress field is analysis and calculation and analysis the influence on temperature and stress distribution of reducer. The results show that the maximum of the temperature and the residual stress is located in the big side and reduce the welding seam, and the obvious deformation also find in the big side and reduce joint . The reducing pipe’s distribution of temperature field and residual stress field are obtained,providing the basis to establish properly and optimize of welding process.

Residual Stresses in High Strength, Thick Section Steel Welds

2008 ◽  
Vol 571-572 ◽  
pp. 387-392
Author(s):  
Susan V. Pearce ◽  
Valerie Linton
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Stress Field ◽  
Yield Strength ◽  
Quantitative Measure ◽  
Steel Structures ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Welding Residual Stress ◽  
High Yield ◽  
Residual Stress Field ◽  
Butt Weld

The conservative assumption of residual stress in highly restrained steel structures can lead to unnecessary repairs of defects in welded joints. This applies particularly with respect to high restraint, high yield strength thick sections welds because the assumption of yield strength residual stress is used in integrity assessments. By analysing the stress within components both before and after welding it is anticipated that a greater understanding of the residual stress field as a product of both the welding residual stress and the pre-welding residual stress can be made. This paper discusses a series of experiments designed to build up such a model of the changing stress field within a T-butt weld. Neutron strain scanning has been performed on unwelded flat and curved steel sections and a curved T-butt weld. To complement this, surface X-ray measurements have been carried out in order to gain a quantitative measure of the changing surface stress during welding and sectioning. The findings were that welding stresses dominate close to the weld, bending stresses dominate further from the weld.

Study of through-thickness residual stress by numerical and experimental techniques

1998 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 449-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Rasouli Yazdi ◽  
D Retraint ◽  
J Lu
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Temperature Field ◽  
Stress Field ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Experimental Techniques ◽  
Hole Drilling ◽  
Residual Stress Field ◽  
Thermal Problem ◽  
Incremental Hole Drilling ◽  
Surface Convection

The quenching process of aluminium alloys is modelled using the finite element method. The study of residual stress field induced by quenching is divided into two: the thermal and mechanical aspects. In the thermal problem, the general heat conduction equation is solved and the temperature field during quenching is calculated. In the mechanical problem, the calculated temperature field and mechanical properties are used to predict the residual stress field. In this paper, the two different boundary conditions used in the thermal problem are examined. The first is surface convection using the appropriate heat transfer coefficient. The second is the temperature variation measured at the surface of the part. These boundary conditions are compared, and the advantages and the drawbacks of each are shown. The influence of different quenching parameters on the level of residual stress is studied. To validate the quenching modelling, the incremental hole drilling and neutron diffraction methods are used to measure the residual stress field in the studied parts. The hole drilling technique has been adapted to measure the residual stress through a larger thickness of the part. The aim of this paper is the combination of numerical and experimental techniques for the investigation of the through-thickness residual stress field.

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