scholarly journals Modeling and Calculating of Residual Stress and Strain of Butt Welded Joint

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 58-67
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element Method ◽  
Residual Stress ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Welded Joint ◽  
The Finite Element Method ◽  
Force Method ◽  
Stress Components ◽  
Residual Stresses And Strains ◽  
Element Method

The non-uniform thermal expansion and contraction resulting from welding processes cause residual stresses and strains. Experimental studies on measuring welding residual stresses and strains of structure are costly and sometimes they are not possible. Previously, analytical methods with idealized models were developed to determine the welding residual stresses and strain. Recently, numerical methods are constructed to analyze the stresses and the strains in welded structures. This paper presents the calculation results of residual stress and welding strain in butt welded joint of S355J2G3 carbon steel of 5 mm thickness made by MAG welding process with a single pass. The calculation is performed by two methods: the imaginary force method and the finite element method. In the finite element method, the SYSWELD software is used to simulate and to determine residual stresses and strain of this welded joint. The results of finite element method are compared with those of imaginary force method to show the rationality and the advantages of finite element method. The study results have shown that in this welded joint, only the longitudinal and transverse stress components are important and the other stress components are negligible.

Prediction of Residual Stresses in Butt Welded Plates Using Inherent Strains

1993 ◽  
Vol 115 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Ueda ◽  
M. G. Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element Method ◽  
Residual Stress ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
The Finite Element Method ◽  
Butt Weld ◽  
Butt Welds ◽  
Plastic Analysis ◽  
Inherent Strain ◽  
Element Method

The source of residual stresses in the vicinity of a weld may be expressed in terms of inherent strains. The characteristics of the inherent strain distributions in butt welds are investigated. It is found that the patterns vary little with changes in the welding conditions and sizes of the welded plates. With some assumptions, simple formulas are derived for the distribution and magnitude of inherent strain in a butt weld. A method of predicting the residual stress in a butt-welded plate using the characteristics of inherent strain distributions is presented. The validity of the method is confirmed by thermal elasto-plastic analysis using the finite element method (FEM).

Calculation of Residual Stresses in Plastic Deformation Processes

1973 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 283-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. H. Lee ◽  
H. Iwasaki ◽  
S. Kobayashi
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element Method ◽  
Residual Stress ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Internal Pressure ◽  
Solid Cylinder ◽  
The Finite Element Method ◽  
Concentric Cylinders ◽  
Deformation Processes ◽  
Element Method

Three problems, namely, autofrettage process, plastic upsetting of a solid cylinder, and plane-strain and axisymmetric extrusion, are treated for residual stress calculation. A thick-walled cylinder consisting of two loosely fitted concentric cylinders of different materials is subjected to various levels of internal pressure. The residual stresses were calculated with an emphasis on the case where the inner surface of the cylinder yields again upon removal of the internal pressure. Comparison between the calculations and the measurements is given. The residual stresses in plastic upsetting of a solid cylinder were calculated by the finite-element method. An attempt was also made to simulate the real situation in extrusion by the finite-element method. An estimation of the residual stress distribution is then discussed for axisymmetric extrusion problems.

Residual Stress Prediction in Dissimilar Metal Weld Pipe Joints Using the Finite Element Method

2005 ◽  
Vol 490-491 ◽  
pp. 53-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Elias Katsareas ◽  
Anastasius Youtsos
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element Method ◽  
Residual Stress ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
The Finite Element Method ◽  
Dissimilar Metal ◽  
Stress Prediction ◽  
Dissimilar Metal Weld ◽  
Metal Weld ◽  
Element Method

Dissimilar metal welds are commonly found in the primary piping of pressurized water nuclear reactor power plants. The safety assessment practice for such welds requires residual stresses to be taken into consideration. In the present paper the finite element method is utilized for the simulation of the welding process and prediction of the residual stress field in a dissimilar metal weld pipe joint. Although it is common practice to develop in-house finite element codes for weld simulation, the ANSYS commercial finite element code is selected. This is mainly due to the fact that industry focuses on commercial software, since residual stress analysis procedures based on them can be readily transferred to industrial applications. A simplified 2-D axi-symmetric model, in which residual stresses are produced due to the thermo-mechanical properties mismatch during cooling of the weld, is compared with a detailed model in which the complete multi-pass welding procedure is simulated. The latter incorporates the “birth & death of elements” technique, temperature dependant material properties and kinematic hardening material behavior. The aim of this comparison is to establish the degree of model detail and complexity, necessary to obtain satisfactory results and consequently to define a golden rule between computational cost and practically accurate predictions. Identifying the specific simulation parameters and variables, that have the highest impact on the accuracy of the computed results, is also important. It is concluded that, a bead-by-bead or lump-by-lump detailed simulation is necessary in order to obtain reasonably accurate residual stresses that cannot be predicted by a simplified model. A general conclusion is that the proposed method, being simple in implementation and cost effective concerning model complexity and analysis time, is a potential weld residual stress prediction tool.

scholarly journals Numerical Evaluation of Temperature Field and Residual Stresses in an API 5L X80 Steel Welded Joint Using the Finite Element Method

Metals ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jailson Da Nóbrega ◽  
Diego Diniz ◽  
Antonio Silva ◽  
Theophilo Maciel ◽  
Victor de Albuquerque ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element Method ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Temperature Field ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Numerical Evaluation ◽  
Welded Joint ◽  
The Finite Element Method ◽  
X80 Steel ◽  
Element Method

Modeling Residual Stresses in Superduplex Stainless Steel Welded Pipes Using the Finite Element Method

2013 ◽  
Vol 758 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Fabiano Rezende ◽  
Luís Felipe Guimarães de Souza ◽  
Pedro Manuel Calas Lopes Pacheco
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element Method ◽  
Residual Stress ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
Welding Parameters ◽  
Superduplex Stainless Steel ◽  
Mechanical Components ◽  
Element Method

Welding is a complex process where localized and intensive heat is imposed to a piece promoting mechanical and metallurgical changes. Phenomenological aspects of welding process involve couplings among different physical processes and its description is unusually complex. Basically, three couplings are essential: thermal, phase transformation and mechanical phenomena. Welding processes can generate residual stress due to the thermal gradient imposed to the workpiece in association to geometric restrictions. The presence of tensile residual stresses can be especially dangerous to mechanical components submitted to fatigue loadings. The present work regards on study the residual stress in welded superduplex stainless steel pipes using experimental and a numerical analysis. A parametric nonlinear elastoplastic model based on finite element method is used for the evaluation of residual stress in superduplex steel welding. The developed model takes into account the coupling between mechanical and thermal fields and the temperature dependency of the thermomechanical properties. Thermocouples are used to measure the temperature evolution during welding stages. Instrumented hole drilling technique is used for the evaluation of the residual stress after welding process. Experimental data is used to calibrate the numerical model. The methodology is applied to evaluate the behavior of two-pass girth welding (TIG for root pass and SMAW for finishing) in 4 inch diameter seamless tubes of superduplex stainless steel UNS32750. The result shows a good agreement between numerical experimental results. The proposed methodology can be used in complex geometries as a powerful tool to study and adjust welding parameters to minimize the residual stresses on welded mechanical components.

Simulation and Analysis on the Blind Hole Method Using the Finite Element Method

2013 ◽  
Vol 328 ◽  
pp. 990-994
Author(s):  
Chun Ho Yin ◽  
Chao Ming Hsu ◽  
Ping Shen Su ◽  
Jao Hwa Kuang
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element Method ◽  
Residual Stress ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Strain Gage ◽  
Hole Drilling ◽  
Drilling Process ◽  
Dimensionless Parameters ◽  
Inconel 690 ◽  
Stress Components ◽  
Element Method

This study investigates the effectiveness of the hole-drilling strain gage method on residual stress estimation. The thermal elastic-plastic model of the commercial Marc finite element method package is used to simulate and build up the hole-drilling process and residual stress distribution. Two Inconel 690 alloy plate welded with GTAW filler I-52 solder are first simulated using the Marc software. The traditional hole-drilling process is then simulated. The simulated residual strain variation data is incorporated into the hole-drilling strain-gage method to derive the possible residual stress components. The effects of drilling depth and drill size on the accuracy of residual stress estimates are also discussed. A comparison of stress components estimated from the traditional hole-drilling strain gage method and simulated from the Marc software is presented. The modified dimensionless parameters are provided by applying the optimum technique. The numerical results indicate that the proposed dimensionless parameters can significantly improve the accuracy of estimated residual stress components.

Three-phase micromechanical analysis of residual stresses in reinforced fiber by carbon nanotubes

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (12) ◽  
pp. 1783-1794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Reza Ghasemi ◽  
Mohammad Mohammadi Fesharaki ◽  
Masood Mohandes
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element Method ◽  
Carbon Nanotubes ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Carbon Fiber ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Representative Volume Element ◽  
Volume Element ◽  
The Finite Element Method ◽  
Representative Volume ◽  
Element Method

In this study, circular disk model and cylinder theory for two dimension (2D) and three dimension (3D), respectively, have been used to determine residual stresses in three-phase representative volume element. The representative volume element is consisting of three phases: carbon fiber, carbon nanotubes, and polymer matrix, that carbon fiber is reinforced by carbon nanotube using electrophoresis method. Initially, the residual stresses analysis of two-phase representative volume element has been implemented. The two-phase representative volume element has been divided to carbon fiber and matrix phases with different volume fractions. In the three-phase representative volume element, although the volume fraction of carbon fiber is constant and equal to 60%, the volume fractions of carbon nanotubes for various cases are different as 0%, 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%, and 5%. Also, there are two different methods to reinforce the fiber according to different coefficients of thermal expansion of the carbon fiber and carbon nanotube in two longitudinal and transverse directions; carbon nanotubes are placed on carbon fiber either parallel or around it like a ring. Subsequently, finite element method and circular disk model have been used for analyzing micromechanic of the residual stresses for 2D and then the results of stress invariant obtained by the finite element method have been compared with the circular disk model. Moreover, for 3D model, the finite element method and cylinder theory have been utilized for micromechanical analysis of the residual stresses and the results of stress invariant obtained by them, have been compared with each other. Results of the finite element method and analytical model have good agreement in 2D and 3D models.

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