• Title/Summary/Keyword: Butt joint welding

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Hardness prediction based on microstructure evolution and residual stress evaluation during high tensile thick plate butt welding

  • Zhou, Hong;Zhang, Qingya;Yi, Bin;Wang, Jiangchao
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.146-156
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    • 2020
  • Two High Tensile Strength Steel (EH47) plates with thickness of 70 mm were butt-welded together by multi-pass Submerged Arc Welding (SAW), also the hardness and welding residual stress were investigated experimentally. Based on Thermal-Elastic-Plastic Finite Element (TEP FE) computation, the thermal cycles during entire welding process were obtained, and the HAZ hardness of multi-pass butt welded joint was computed by the hardenability algorithm with considering microstructure evolution. Good agreement of HAZ hardness between the measurement and computational result is observed. The evolution of each phase was drawn to clarify the influence mechanism of thermal cycle on HAZ hardness. Welding residual stress was predicted with considering mechanical response, which was dominantly determined by last cap welds through analyzing its formation process.

Selection of an Optimal Welding Condition for Back Bead Formation in GMA Root Pass Welding (GMA 초층용접에서 이면비드 생성을 위한 최적용접조건의 선정)

  • Yun, Young-Kil;Kim, Jae-Woong;Yun, Seok-Chul
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.86-92
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    • 2010
  • In GMAW processes, bead geometry is a criterion to estimate welding quality. Bead geometry is affected by welding current, arc voltage, welding speed, shielding gas and so on. Thus the welding condition has to be selected carefully. In this paper, an experimental method for the selection of optimal welding condition was proposed in the root pass welding which was done along the GMA V-grooved butt weld joint. This method uses the response surface analysis in which the width and height of back bead were chosen as the quality variables of the weld. The overall desirability function, which is the combined desirability function for the two quality variables, was used as the objective function for getting the optimal welding condition. Through the experiments, the target values of the back bead width and the height were chosen as 4mm and 1mm respectively for the V-grooved butt weld joint. From a series of welding test, it was revealed that a uniform weld bead can be obtained by adopting the optimal welding condition which was determined according to the method proposed.

A Study on Fusion Welding Strength of PE pipe (PE배관의 융착 강도에 관한 연구)

  • Jun, Hung-Won;Kim, Yong-Soo;Tae, Soon-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.16-21
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    • 2002
  • At present the Polyethylene piping, on supporting LNG is widely used because of it's disposition which are anti-corrosion flexible and so on. However, it has a few kinds of risk which are the possibility of piping leak, the character of easily corroded and so on. For giving solution, this study is intended to experiment the intension of the PE pipe after melted and when it is melting, the condition which are temperature and pressure is changed. the melting condition in temperature and pressure is adapted identically. After melting, it's joint is tested as intension. The result is that the effect of temperature in intension is more effective than pressure. In $210^{\circ}C$, $20kg/cm^{2}$ condition, the melting intension has the highest. Compare to the Butt melting joint and the Saddle melting joint, the former was $214kg/cm^{2}$ and the latter was $50kg/cm^{2}(bead\;2{\sim}3mm)$ and $73kg/cm^{2}(bead\;5{\sim}7mm)$. It means that the Butt melting method has more intensive than saddle. Consequently, the result shows that the liability and safety when pipe melting method is used will improve in pipe installation.

A Study on Development of Automatic Weld-Seam Tracking System using Vision Sensor (시각센서를 이용한 용접선 자동추적시스템의 개발에 관한 연구)

  • 배강열;이지형
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.79-88
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    • 1996
  • For improvement in productivity and weld quality, weld seam tracking and welding parameter control are very essential in the welding of a structure which can not be cxactly fit-up due to mismatch, discontinous gap, deflection, etc.. In this study, an automatic weld seam tracking system is developed for I-butt joint structure, and the system consists of XYZ working table, vision sensor and user interface program. In the developed vision sensor system, an image projection algorithm for weld-line detection and an adaptive current control algorithm for gap variation were implemented. The user interface program developed in this study by basing on the objct oriented concept could provide very convenient way to utilize the tracking system with the pull-down menu driven structure. The developed system showed a good seam tracking and weld quality control capability corresponding to deflected weld lines and gap variations.

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Design of Welded Joints Using Stress Intensity Factors (응력확대계수를 이용한 용접이음부 설계 연구)

  • Park, Ji-Woo;Gu, Man-Hoi;Choi, Chang;Sung, Wan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 1996.11a
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    • pp.1058-1062
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    • 1996
  • The assessments of weld defects by fracture mechanics are performed for design of welded Joints. In general, butt, T-type, and L-type welded joint are useful for welding structure. When linear weld defects are in welded joint, stress intensity factors for each joints are calculated by finite element method. Analysis results are shown for the fracture modes and characteristics of joint types. And they are founded for the weaken order of welded joints being T-type, butt, L-type.

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Residual stresses measurement in the butt joint welded metals using FSW and TIG methods

  • Taheri-Behrooz, Fathollah;Aliha, Mohammad R.M.;Maroofi, Mahmood;Hadizadeh, Vahid
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.759-766
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    • 2018
  • Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is a solid-state process, where the objects are joined together without reaching their melting point. It has been shown that this method is a suitable way to join dissimilar aluminium alloys. The current article employed hole drilling technique to measure the residual stress distribution experimentally in different zones of dissimilar aluminium alloys AA6061-T6 and AA7075-T6 Butt welded using FSW. Results are compared with those of similar AA6061-T6 plates joined using a conventional fusion welding method called tungsten inert gas (TIG). Also, the evolution of the residual stresses in the thickness direction was investigated, and it was found that the maximum residual stresses are below the yield strength of the material in the shoulder region. It was also revealed that the longitudinal residual stresses in the joint were much larger than the transverse residual stresses. Meanwhile, Vickers micro hardness measurements were performed in the cross-section of the samples. The largest hardness values were observed in the stir zone (SZ) adjacent to the advancing side whereas low hardness values were measured at the HAZ of both alloys and the SZ adjacent to the retreating side.

Analysis of Residual Stress on Dissimilar Butt Joint by TIG Assisted Hybrid Friction Stir Welding (TIG-FSW 하이브리드 용접을 이용한 이종재 맞대기 용접부의 잔류응력 해석)

  • Bang, Hee-Seon;Ro, Chan-Seoung;Bijoy, M.S.;Bang, Han-Sur;Lee, Yoon-Ki
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.47-53
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    • 2012
  • This paper aimed to study and understand the mechanical phenomena of thermal elasto-plastic behavior on the dissimilar butt joint (Al 6061-T6 and STS304) by TIG assisted Friction Stir Welding. Heat conduction and residual stress analysis is carried out using in-house solver. Two-dimensional results of the heat distribution and residual stresses in dissimilar joint for particular tool geometry and material properties are presented. The predicted stress along longitudinal direction in Al 6061-T6 and STS304 are approximately between 12-15% of their respective yield strengths. A comparison is made between experimentally measured and numerically predicted equivalent residual stress values.