Assessment of Heat Affected Zone of Submerged Arc Welding Process through Digital Image Processing

2012 ◽  
Vol 326-328 ◽  
pp. 400-404
Author(s):  
Aniruddha Ghosh ◽  
Somnath Chattopadhyaya ◽  
N.K. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Digital Image Processing ◽  
Deposition Rate ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Heat Affected Zone ◽  
Arc Welding ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
Submerged Arc Welding ◽  
High Deposition Rate ◽  
Submerged Arc

Submerged arc welding (SAW) is a high quality, high deposition rate welding process commonly used to join plates of higher thickness in load bearing components. This process of arc welding provides a purer and cleaner high volume weldment that has relatively a higher material deposition rate compared to the traditional welding methods. A common issue in the application of SAW process raises a concern about the uncertainties involved with the heat affected zone (HAZ) in and around the weldment. The most intriguing issue is about HAZ softening that imparts some uncertainties in the welded quality. It increases the probability of fatigue failures at the weakest zones caused by the heating and cooling cycle of the weld zone. An attempt has been made in this paper to assess the heat affected zone of submerged arc welding of structural steel plates through the analysis of the grain structure by means of digital image processing techniques.

scholarly journals Assessment of Heat Affected Zone of Submerged Arc Welding Process through Digital Image Processing

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 2782-2785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aniruddha Ghosh ◽  
Somnath Chattopadhyaya ◽  
R.K. Das ◽  
P.K. Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Digital Image Processing ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Heat Affected Zone ◽  
Arc Welding ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
Submerged Arc Welding ◽  
Arc Welding Process ◽  
Submerged Arc

Influence of Thermal Simulated and Real Tandem Submerged Arc Welding Process on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of the Coarse Grained Heat Affected Zone

2011 ◽  
Vol 110-116 ◽  
pp. 3191-3198
Author(s):  
Sadegh Moeinifar
Keyword(s):  
Grain Boundaries ◽  
Heat Affected Zone ◽  
Heat Input ◽  
Arc Welding ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
Submerged Arc Welding ◽  
Rolled Plate ◽  
Arc Welding Process ◽  
Submerged Arc ◽  
Tandem Submerged Arc Welding

The high-strength low-alloy microalloyed steel was procured as a hot rolled plate with accelerated cooling. The Gleeble thermal simulated process involved heating the steel specimens to the peak temperature of 1400 °C, with constant cooling rates of 3.75 °C/s and 2 °C/s to room temperature. The four-wire tandem submerged arc welding process, with different heat input, was used to generate a welded microstructure. The martensite/austenite constituent appeared in the microstructure of the heat affected zone region for all the specimens along the prior-austenite grain boundaries and between bainitic ferrite laths. The blocky-like and stringer martensite/austenite morphology were observed in the heat affected zone regions. The martensite/austenite constituents were obtained by a combination of field emission scanning electron microscopes and image analysis software The Charpy absorbed energy of specimens was assessed using Charpy impact testing at-50 °C. Brittle particles, such as martensite/austenite constituent along the grain boundaries, can make an easy path for crack propagation. Similar crack initiation sites and growth mechanism were investigated for specimens welded with different heat input values.

Prediction of Temperature Distribution on Submerged Arc Welded Plates through Gaussian Heat Distribution Technique

2011 ◽  
Vol 284-286 ◽  
pp. 2477-2480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aniruddha Ghosh ◽  
Somnath Chattopadhyaya
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Distribution ◽  
Arc Welding ◽  
Infinite Plate ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
Submerged Arc Welding ◽  
High Deposition Rate ◽  
Microstructure Modeling ◽  
Arc Welding Process ◽  
Submerged Arc ◽  
Good Agreement

Submerged Arc Welding process (SAW) is a high quality, very high deposition rate welding process. It has lot of social and economical implecations.This paper makes an attempt to uncover an important area on studies of temperature distribution during submerged arc welding because this may pave the way for application of microstructure modeling, thermal stress analysis, residual stress/distribution and welding process simulation. Prediction of temperature variation of entire plates during welding through an analytical solution is derived from the transient multi dimensional heat conduction of semi infinite plate. The heat input that is applied on the plate is exactly same amount of heat lost for electric arc, which is assumed to be a moving double conical heat source with Gaussian distribution for Submerged Arc Welding process. Good agreement between predicted and experimental results has been achieved.

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