Arc characteristics of laser-TIG double-side welding

Abstract

Based on the experiments of laser-TIG double-side welding (LTDSW) for aluminium alloys, the influence of laser radiation on the arc behaviours of the opposite side was investigated. Generally, with the variation of laser power, there are three typical arc shapes: arc column convergence, arc root constriction and arc expansion. An important point to notice is that the laser keyhole preheating will induce the arc column convergence in the LTDSW. The arc voltage in the LTDSW is lower than that in TIG welding over the entire range of the experimental currents. Moreover, with increasing welding current, the difference in arc voltage between TIG welding and LTDSW is diminished because of the self-stabilisation of the arc burning at high currents. The complex transformation of arc behaviours has a great effect on the arc current density and its stability. The laser generated hot spot or laser induced plasma will have a higher temperature and greater electron density than neighbouring regions, and will offer the line of least resistance or the lowest potential drop. Hence, it is very reasonable that the arc voltage should descend under the influence of laser radiation, and the arc electrons should compress and root to the hot spot or plasma zone.     

Study on heat efficiency of laser-TIG double-side welding

A series of laser-TIG double-side welding experiments for aluminum alloys were carried out to investigate the heat efficiency of the process. The melting efficiency was introduced to evaluate quantitatively the degree of the mutual effect of the laser and the arc. The results showed that the melting efficiency of laser-TIG double-side welding exceeded the sum of the laser and the arc taken separately. With the increase of heat input, the weld depth and melting efficiency of the laser and the arc were increased signifwantly. This, in fact, implies the strong mutual effect of the laser and the arc as heat sources joined simultaneously in the process. Comparatively, the higher efficiency of the laser constituent of heat sources plays the main role in the increase of the process efficiency. The phenomena of arc column convergence, increased laser absorptivity and the formation of heat accumulation region are the causes of the improvement of heat efficiency.     

电场提高激光-TIG复合焊熔深的机制

通过对比电场对单激光和单TIG焊接电弧在镁合金板材上堆焊熔深的影响,分析了外加电场对激光-TIG复合焊熔深的影响机制.同时通过研究在不同激光功率、不同TIG电流强度下电场的作用效果,对该机制进行了验证.结果表明,外加电场对激光-TIG复合焊熔深的作用是通过对激光小孔内等离子中带电粒子运动的控制来实现的.外加电场使小孔内电子向小孔底部运动时,可以增加焊接熔深;激光功率越大,外加电场增加熔深效果越明显;增大TIG焊接电流,削弱外加电场对熔深的增加作用.     

电弧弧长对激光-电弧复合焊飞溅和底部驼峰的影响

由于热源形式的特殊性,激光-电弧复合焊接过程中激光和电弧间易发生相互干扰,产生飞溅和底部驼峰等缺陷。以590 MPa级船用高强钢为研究对象,研究了电弧弧长对激光-电弧复合焊飞溅和焊缝底部驼峰的影响。为了深入研究激光-电弧复合焊飞溅和底部驼峰的产生机理,利用高速摄像设备对熔滴过渡行为和焊缝底部熔池进行了观察。结果表明,适当缩短电弧弧长可以降低激光和电弧间的相互干扰,提高复合焊接过程的稳定性,进而降低飞溅产生的倾向。底部驼峰是小孔熔透性差和底部熔池流动不连续所引起的。缩短电弧弧长可以对底部驼峰的产生起到抑制作用,这是因为缩短电弧弧长可以降低等离子体对激光的吸收,提高激光的能量利用率,增加小孔熔透性和稳定性。 创新点： 研究了电弧弧长对激光-电弧复合焊飞溅和底部驼峰的影响,采用高速摄像方法对底部熔池流动进行了观察,进一步明确了激光-电弧复合焊接焊缝底部驼峰的产生原因。     

铝合金双光束/单光束激光-TIG复合焊

针对4mm厚5A06铝合金,分析了双光束光纤激光-TIG复合焊的焊缝成形特点、气孔率、匙孔动态特征及接头力学性能,并与单光束光纤激光-TIG复合焊对比。结果表明,在获得相同焊缝背面熔宽条件下,与单光束激光-TIG复合焊相比,双光束激光-TIG复合焊的焊缝背面成型连续性、均匀性更优且熔宽波动较小,焊缝气孔率降低50%以上,激光匙孔开口面积平均值更大,波动变异系数更小;双光束激光-TIG复合焊接头抗拉强度、断后伸长率、显微硬度、组织与单光束激光-TIG复合焊结果差别不大。     

PAW+TIG电弧双面焊接小孔形成过程的数值模拟

综合考虑影响等离子弧小孔形成的等离子流力、重力、表面张力等力学因素，建立了等离子电弧＋钨极电弧（PAW＋TIG）双面焊接时小孔形成过程的数学模型，并与焊接传热的控制方程耦合，采用数值模拟技术，定量分析了小孔形成的动态过程，根据数值分析结果，将小孔的形成过程分为开始焊接到熔透，熔透到开始穿孔，开始穿孔到小孔形态稳定三个阶段，熔池的最小跨距可作为小孔建立的评价指标。小孔的形成是热、力共同作用的结果。     

Welding characteristics in different laser-TIG hybrid manners

An experiment for determining the laser-TIG hybrid welding characteristics was carried oat in three kinds of hybrid methods: CO2 laser-TIG coaxial hybrid, CO2 laser-TIG paraxial hybrid and Nd: YAG laser-TIG paraxial hybrid. The experimental results indicate that hybrid welding has two welding mechanisms in CO2 laser-TIG hybrid welding: deep penetration welding and heat conduction welding. As the effect of the laser-induced keyhole, the arc root is condensed, the current density and penetration depth increase significantly, the welding characteristic is apt to deep penetration welding.When current increases to some degree, the keyhole induced by laser disappears, which produces a shallow penetration and wide bead. The weld exhibits heat conduction welding characteristics. Furthermore, the arc images and weld bead crosssections of three kinds of hybrid manners were also compared and analyzed at different welding currents, which established the foundation for understanding the welding characteristics of laser-TIG hybrid welding comprehensively.     

Novel hybrid method： pulse CO2 laser-TIG hybrid welding by coordinated control

0IntroductionRecently,laser-arc hybrid welding,as a rising spe-cial manufacture technology,has attracted more and moreinterest and attentions of some researchers and weldingcompanies.But,concerning laser-TIG hybrid welding,most of the research in this area mainly focused on contin-uous wave laser-TIG arc hybrid welding[1-3].In previousworks,because of the absorption and defocusing of laserenergy by hybrid arc plasma,the energy loss of laser wasvery serious when laser traversed arc in continu…     

激光-电弧复合焊接过程中等离子体的耦合行为

激光-电弧复合热源可以形成3种焊缝横截面的形貌,根据焊接参数对焊缝横截面形貌的影响建立了激光和电弧等离子体相互作用的物理机制.通过考察复合焊接过程中电弧等离子体中原子分布状态、电弧辐射光谱信息以及激光"匙孔"的行为对机制进行了验证.结果表明,激光对电弧等离子体的作用是通过激光形成的"匙孔"及其内部等离子体实现的,在适当参数下,电弧等离子体弧柱会进入激光"匙孔"内部,并与"匙孔"等离子体发生耦合放电,最终形成复合等离子体.电弧等离子体和"匙孔"等离子体的耦合作用有利于提高热源的能量密度.     

NTWV-based sensing keyhole dimension in plasma arc welding

During stable keyhole plasma arc welding, the pilot arc and the transferred arc exist at the meantime, and the arcs can be considered as a composition of two parts inside and outside the nozzle, respectively. Under the mechanical constriction and thermal contraction effects, the inside arc has certain arc length, electron density and arc profile etc. inducing constant tungsten-to-nozzle voltage. However, the arc outside the nozzle diverges at about 5 degrees and has certain characteristics similar to the free arcs. The nozzle-to-workpiece voltage （NTWV） depends mainly on the length of the arc, which gets bigger as increasing of the weld penetration and keyhole size. The NTWV sensor is developed for monitoring NTWV in real time. The welding experiments are designed to get different penetrations and keyhole sizes. It is found that as the weld penetration and the keyhole size increase, NTWV also increases linearly. The NTWV signals can be used as the feedback variable in automatic control of keyhole plasma arc welding.     

Measurement method of the arc welding current and voltage

Plasma arc welding can realize high-speed welding, deeper weld penetration and, furthermore, smaller thermal distortion. For these reasons, plasma arc welding is employed for keyhole welding. However, it has been pointed out that it is difficult to obtain the stability of the welding. In this study, we have developed a unified plasma arc welding model for analysing the welding mechanism and influence of the torch design and operation conditions of the arc on the welding process. In this paper, the keyhole welding of a thick aluminium plate employing the plasma arc was numerically analyzed for clarifying the mechanism determining the keyhole size which is important for improving the stability of the process. As a result, it was found that the keyhole size is determined mainly by a force balance between the surface tension of a weld pool and metal vapour pressure.     

铝合金变极性等离子弧穿孔焊过程控制

分析了铝合金变极性等离子弧穿孔立焊工艺特点,提出了通过对焊接参数的精确控制,实现变断面铝合金变极性等离子弧穿孔立焊工艺的方法,并将焊接电流、离子气流量和焊接速度确定为变断面铝合金变极性等离子弧穿孔立焊过程的被调节参数.保持穿孔熔池上"热"和"力"的动态平衡是调节焊接参数的根本依据,是实现变断面试件自动焊接的关键所在.采用单片机为核心的控制器对焊接参数进行实时调节,动态保持穿孔熔池上热和力平衡,实现了变断面铝合金变极性等离子弧穿孔立焊工艺.     

等离子弧焊中电弧反翘现象的数值模拟

根据流体的质量、动量、能量守恒方程,建立了穿孔等离子弧焊接过程中的等离子电弧三维数学模型,用磁矢量法求解磁场问题.模型包括了一部分喷嘴和钨阴极,小孔也被包含进模型中.利用ANSYS有限元分析软件求解模型,得到等离子电弧的温度分布,以研究等离子弧焊中电弧反翘现象.结果表明,等离子电弧反翘随小孔尺寸的增大而减弱,电弧尾焰随小孔尺寸的增大而增强;而适当的增加焊接速度以使小孔轴线与电弧轴线之间形成一定的偏差是形成等离子电弧反翘现象的必要条件;焊接电流主要是通过改变小孔尺寸而对电弧反翘产生影响.     

铝合金激光-MIG复合填丝焊稳定性分析

通过与铝合金激光-MIG复合焊方法相对比,主要研究了铝合金激光-MIG复合填丝焊的焊缝成形、熔深稳定性、余高稳定性、焊缝气孔率、激光匙孔特征、等离子体特征. 试验结果表明,在合适的工艺参数条件下,铝合金激光-MIG复合填丝焊焊接过程稳定,焊缝成形良好,额外填入的焊丝可以连续稳定地过渡到熔池中,激光匙孔具有明显的形成、长大、湮灭周期性变化特征;相同工艺参数条件下,铝合金激光-MIG复合填丝焊的焊缝熔深稳定性、余高稳定性与激光-MIG复合焊相当,激光匙孔开口面积约增加15.34%,等离子体+电弧总面积约增加1.95%.     

焊丝熔化方式对激光焊接过程的影响

研究了两种焊丝熔化方法(电弧预熔丝激光焊、激光填丝焊)激光焊接过程对匙孔稳定性以及焊缝成形的影响，进一步研究了焊丝熔化方法对焊接接头质量的影响，并对比分析了两种焊丝熔化方式对焊接速度的适应性. 结果表明，电弧预熔丝激光焊过程中，熔池表面匙孔开口尺寸变化不大，匙孔较为稳定；激光填丝焊方法由于熔化的液态金属距离匙孔边缘很近，焊接过程中熔池表面匙孔开口尺寸变化较大,而且容易出现熔池表面匙孔的闭合. 与激光填丝焊相比，电弧预熔丝激光焊熔化的焊丝端部可以沿熔池边缘流入，与匙孔边缘的距离较远，匙孔稳定性较好，焊缝气孔数量较少. 当焊接速度为8 m/min时，电弧预熔丝激光焊的焊缝成形良好；而激光填丝焊焊缝背面成形不连续，并且出现了未焊透的缺陷.     

Closed-loop control of weld penetration in keyhole plasma arc welding

To improve the penetrating ability and the welding quality of keyhole plasma arc welding, a novel penetration closed-loop control system was established. In the system, welding current and plasma gas flow rate were selected as adjusting variables. The wavelet method was used to detect penetration status from welding arc voltage in real-time. The control strategy of one-keyhole-per-pulse was adapted to fulfill stable and high quality welding process. Experimental results show that the developed system can apparently increase the penetrating force of plasma arc and keyhole plasma arc welding is realized successfully in stainless steel with 10 mm in thickness. Moreover,the disturbances of gradual change and break change from 3mm to 6mm in thickness are come over due to the good response property of the developed system.     

激光与电弧相互作用时的电弧形态及焊缝特征

激光与电弧的复合热源在焊接过程中，由于激光的压缩与引导作用，可以在焊接速度增加时，电弧仍然较稳定。在去掉激光同轴保护气流而只采用TIG的保护气体进行保护时，由于激光同轴气体的冲击、压缩和冷却作用的消失，等离子气体将会随着电流、激光功率的增加而增大，因而引起焊缝横截面的变化。通过调整激光与电弧的规范参数，并用CCD摄取各参数下的电弧图像以分析等离子体的长大情况，然后将得到的焊缝沿横截面剖开。通过对各种参数下等离子体图像和焊缝横截面之间的相互的关系进行分析，得到与常规情况下相比熔宽较宽而熔深较浅的焊缝的焊接参数。这种产生涂敷型焊缝的参数可用于高速表层涂覆。     

Modeling the keyhole shape and dimension in plasma arc welding

It is of great significance to model the keyhole shape and dimensions to optimize the plasma arc welding process parameters. In this study, through employing a combined volumetric heat source mode, the weld pool in keyhole plasma arc welding is determined firstly, and then the dynamic force-balance condition on the interface between the plasma jet and the molten metal is dealt with in describing the keyhole formation inside the weld pool. The effects of welding current on the shape and size of keyhole are numerically analyzed. The sharp transformation from a partial keyhole to a full-penetration keyhole is quantitatively demonstrated.     

Experimental determination of the weld penetration evolution in keyhole plasma arc welding

Keyhole plasma arc welding experiments are conducted to measure the weld geometry and penetration at different moments during the initial phase from igniting arc to quasi-steady state. Indirect information on keyhole formation and evolution in plasma arc welding can be extracted based on the weld macrophotograph at cross section. It has laid foundation to verify the mathematical models of keyhole plasma arc welding.     

TA2中厚板低功率激光诱导双电弧高效焊接及机理

采用低功率脉冲激光诱导双TIG复合焊接热源(LITTW)实现了6 mm厚TA2纯钛中厚板的高效焊接,基于Ti粒子的动力学行为,研究了激光脉冲对电弧等离子体的影响.结果表明,LITTW比激光诱导单TIG焊接(LISTW)的电弧能量更加集中,焊接能耗仅为LISTW的50.9%,速度却达到LISTW的2.3倍.激光脉冲作用后,电弧等离子体由能量集中状态恢复到原始电弧形态存在一个恢复时间,在本试验条件下,LITTW的恢复时间为6.5 ms,比LISTW延长了3 ms. LITTW中稳定的匙孔形态为Ti粒子持续向电弧等离子体转移提供了条件,延长了电弧等离子体的恢复时间.