Characterization on strength and toughness of welded joint for Q550 steel

Q550 high strength steel was welded using gas shielded arc welding and three different welding wires without pre- or post-heat treatments. The paper investigates the influence of welding wire on the microstructure, tensile strength and impact toughness of Q550 steel weld joints. Results showed that the microstructure of the weld metal of joints produced using ER50-6 wire was a mixture of acicular ferrite and grain boundary ferrite including pro-eutectoid ferrite and ferrite side plate. Acicular ferrite was mainly obtained in the weld metal of the joints produced using MK·G60-1 wire. Pro-eutectoid ferrite was present along the boundary of prior austenite. Crack initiation occurred easily at pro-eutectoid ferrite when the joint was subjected to tensile. Tensile strength and impact toughness were promoted with increasing acicular ferrite. Tensile strength of the joint fabricated using MK·G60-1 wire was close to that of base metal. And tensile samples fractured at location of the fusion zone, which had lower toughness and thus became the weak region in the joint. Impact absorbing energy was the highest in the heat affected zone. Fibrous region in fracture surfaces of impact specimens was characterized as transgranular fracture with the mechanism of micro-void coalescence. Acicular ferrite microstructure region corresponded to relatively large dimples while boundary ferrite microstructure corresponded to small dimples.     

An outlook on comparison of hybrid welds of different root pass and filler pass of FCAW and GMAW with classical welds of similar root pass and filler pass

In the present study, gas metal arc welding and flux cored arc welding were applied on SA516 Gr70 carbon steel material. Two different hybrid passes were applied, wherein flux cored wire and solid wire were applied to root pass and filler pass one by one and vice versa. Besides, two more welds of similar electrode root pass and filler pass of flux cored arc welding and gas metal arc welding were acquired. The comparative analysis was carried out in terms of macrostructure and microstructure examination, tensile testing, hardness variations, and impact testing for these classical welds and hybrid welds. The results reveal that, hybrid welds lead to better impact properties relative to classical welds. Maximum angular distortion of 2.66° was reported with classical weld of gas metal arc welding with solid wire root pass and same filler pass. The maximum impact toughness of 49 J/m³ was reported for flux cored root pass and solid wire filler pass at the weld zone. Maximum tensile strength of 596 MPa was reported for hybrid weld of solid root pass and flux cored filler pass. Microstructures are reported with the presence of different acicular ferrite and grain boundary ferrite. Maximum acicular ferrite of 61% was reported with classical weld of flux cored arc welding.     

Laser welding of copper‐niobium microcomposite wires for pulsed power applications

The laser welding of copper‐niobium microcomposite wires was investigated. It was determined that the joint structure does not have welding defects, while microscopic examination of the joint cross‐section showed that the microstructure of the autogenous weld consists mainly of a copper‐based solid solution strengthened by niobium‐rich precipitations. The weld obtained with use of filler material consists of two distinct zones, which are formed due to melting of filler wire and microcomposite wire. This structure of the joint provides an insignificant increase in electrical resistance and sufficient ultimate strength and plasticity of the joint. The tensile strength of the sample welded without filler material reaches 335 MPa, but such welded joints are very brittle due to very low ductility. However, an autogenous laser welding joint has about 1.6 times better ductility, and the tensile strength of the joint depends on the applied filler material and is equal to the tensile strength of this material.     

Experimental investigation of local tensile and fracture resistance behaviour of dissimilar metal weld joint: SA508 Gr.3 Cl.1 and SA312 Type 304LN

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the local tensile and fracture toughness properties of the dissimilar metal weld joints between SA508Gr.3 Cl.1 and SA312 Type 304LN pipe. Weld joints have been prepared by manual gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) process with conventional V‐groove and automatic hot wire gas tungsten arc welding with narrow gap using different filler wires/electrode such as Inconel 82/Inconel 182 and ER309L/ER308L. The tensile and fracture toughness test specimens have been machined from different regions of dissimilar metal weld such as heat affected zones, fusion lines, buttering layer, weld metal and both base metals. Tensile and fracture toughness tests have been carried out as per the ASTM standard E8 and E1820 respectively. Tensile and fracture toughness results of all the regions of dissimilar metal weld joints have been discussed in this paper. Metallurgical and fracture surface examinations have also been reported to substantiate the tensile and fracture toughness results. Need for the local properties for integrity assessment of the dissimilar metal weld joints has also been brought out.     

Hybridization of filler wire in multi-pass gas metal arc welding of SA516 Gr70 carbon steel

In the present investigation, multi-pass gas metal arc welding (GMAW) of SA516 Gr70 carbon steel was carried out by different filler wires such as solid, metal cored and flux cored, wherein, other process parameters were kept constant. The hybrid approach of multi-pass filler wires was applied to obtain three different welds. The root pass was filled by a solid wire for all three cases while the subsequent filler pass was applied through solid, flux-cored and metal cored filler wires, respectively. Metallographic, mechanical and metallurgical analyses such as macrograph study, optical microscopy, tensile testing and hardness variations were performed to address the quality of weld. The results revealed that defect-free sound welds were produced by the hybrid approach of different filler wires in multi-pass GMAW. Overall cost and time reduction can be achieved through hybrid filler welds, without affecting their mechanical strength. Angular distortion was reported minimum at hybrid weld of solid and metal cored filler wire. Maximum reinforcement with higher penetration was observed at weld of solid and metal cored filler wire. Impact toughness was reported higher in case of hybrid weld of solid and flux cored filler wire. Higher macro hardness was reported at weld of solid and flux cored filler wire.     

含Mg药芯焊丝对SiCp/6061Al等离子弧原位焊接的影响

针对SiCp/6061Al基复合材料焊接接头中增强相颗粒发生偏聚,使接头强度降低的问题,采用不同Mg含量的药芯焊丝(合金元素Al-Ti-Mg)为填加材料,以氩氮混合气为离子气,对SiCp/6061Al基复合材料进行等离子弧原位合金化焊接,研究了该类药芯焊丝对焊接接头组织和性能的影响.研究表明,当焊丝中Mg含量达到15%...     

590 MPa级高强钢双面双弧立焊焊缝组织性能

为研究590 MPa级高强钢双面双弧工艺得到的焊接接头组织与性能的关系,采用钨极氩弧焊(TIG)与熔化极气体保护焊(MAG)方法获得成型良好的焊接接头,经过拉伸、冲击、弯曲试验及光学显微镜、扫描电镜、EBSD分析,对590 MPa级高强钢双面双弧立焊打底焊与盖面焊焊接接头的组织及性能进行了研究.结果表明:打底焊缝组织主要为贝氏体,盖面焊缝组织以贝氏体与针状铁素体为主;打底焊缝经历过一次热循环后组织得到一定程度的细化;打底焊缝硬度值与盖面焊缝相近,盖面焊缝热影响区最高硬度值高于打底焊缝热影响区最高硬度;2 mm坡口间隙性能较5 mm坡口间隙有较大提高,2 mm坡口间隙断口以韧窝断裂为主,5 mm坡口间隙断口以解理断裂为主.     

Microstructure characteristics of thick aluminum alloy plate joints welded by fiber laser

It's difficult to weld high strength thick plate since the groove is huge when using traditional arc welding, and the weld tends to be softened and large deformation could occur after multi-layer welding. All of these can affect the industrial application of high strength thick plate wielding. In this case, developing advanced welding technology and welding material is necessary to optimize the microstructure and performance of the welds. Fiber laser has many advantages such as good monochrome and high quality laser beam. In order to decrease the heat damage to the base metal from the welding heat source, low heat input is employed for welding thick plate. Fiber laser is applied in the welding of 20 mm thick Al–Zn–Mg–Cu alloy with super narrow gap filler wire. The microstructure comparison of Al–Mg–Mn alloy and Al–Mg–Mn–Zr–Er alloy welded joints reveals that a huge amount of fine equiaxed grains is formed in the weld zone of Zr and Er micro-alloying Al–Mg–Mn alloy welding wire and a great number of precipitation strengthening phases are precipitated in the weld zone after the heat treatment of welded joints in the entirety.     

Microstructures and mechanical properties of welded joints of novel 3Cr pipeline steel using an inhouse and two commercial welding wires

The welded joints of the novel 3Cr pipeline steel were fabricated via the gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) technique using an inhouse welding wire labeled as R01 and two kinds of commercial wires (H08Cr3MoMnA and TGS-2CML). Microhardness, impact toughness and tensile properties of the joints were measured, and microstructure characteristics were observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results show that under selected welding procedure, the joints of R01 can achieve quite good mechanical properties without preheating and post weld heat treatment (PWHT). After thermal refining, elongation (15.2%) doubled and met the DNV-OS-F101 standard. For low carbon or super low carbon pipeline steels such as 3Cr steel, the revised formula with the carbon applicable coefficient (A(c)) was quite good for predicting the maximum hardness in heat affected zone (HAZ). Compared with these two selected commercial wires, the inhouse welding wire R01 can provide the highest cost-performance ratio.     

Mikrostrukturelle und mechanische Eigenschaften von laserstrahlgeschweißtem Magnesiumfeinblech AZ31‐HP mit und ohne Zusatzwerkstoffe

Microstructural and mechanical properties of laser welded sheets of magnesium AZ31‐HP with and without filler wires This paper describes Nd:YAG laser beam welding experiments carried out on rolled 2.5 mm thick magnesium sheet AZ31‐HP. For the butt welds in flat position, filler wires AZ31X and AZ61A‐F were used, diameter 1.2 mm. The microstructure and mechanical properties of the different laser beam welded joints were examined and compared with one another. The obtained results show that the laser beam welding of AZ31‐HP sheet is possible without hot crack formation, both without and with filler wires. The determined tensile strength, ductility, fracture toughness and microhardness of laser beam welded joints without filler wire were not effected by AZ31X nor AZ61A‐F. By use of these filler wires loss of zinc was minimized and the shape of weldments was optimized. The values of fracture strength, yield strength and microhardness of the joints and base material are quite similar. It is found that the ductility of the joints is lower than the base materials due to the heterogeneous microstructure of the fusion zones and geometrical notches of the weld seams. Both, weld and base material of AZ31‐HP, showed stable crack propagation. Furthermore, for base material slightly lower fracture toughness values CTOD than for the joints were determined.     

埋弧堆焊WC颗粒增强复合层的工艺及性能

目的针对传统钢材硬度低、不耐磨损的问题,选用WC颗粒来增强传统钢材性能,研究不同工艺对WC颗粒增强钢基材料的影响。方法采用埋弧焊方法,将含有WC颗粒的药芯焊丝在钢板表面进行堆焊,采用SVS3020显微镜、光学显微镜和显微硬度计对焊缝的显微组织进行观察与分析。结果随着焊接电流、电压的增大,焊缝成形逐渐完好,无焊缝缺陷,焊接速度增大,焊缝有夹渣缺陷产生;焊缝硬度随着电流、速度的提升而增大,但随电压的提升而下降。结论埋弧焊焊接选用350 A电流、32 V电压和20 m/s速度成形的焊缝质量最佳,基体的稀释作用对堆焊合金层的显微硬度也有明显影响。     

Deoxidation of Weld Metal When Welding with Self-Shielding Cored Wires

With self-shielding cored wires, high-quality and high-productivity welding can be carried out without an external shielding. In this case, porosity of welds is usually prevented by the major weakening of the oxygen activity in the weld metal by means of a strong deoxidation by titanium and aluminum. The weakening of the oxygen activity in the weld metal prevents the generation of carbon monoxide in the weld pool in the course of welding.

Alloying of the weld metal with titanium and aluminum, however, has an unfavorable influence on the quality of welded joints. An increased titanium content, i.e., above 0.3 wt%, produces a primarily martensitic microstructure with a toughness level below 20 J at 20°C. Also, the deoxidation by aluminum provides a little lower toughness at the expense of a less favorable microstructure. Welds with around 0.75% of Al and 0.1% of Ti show a ferritic/pearlitic microstructure with toughness of around 100 J at 20°C.

With some types of cored wires for surfacing, surfacing without an external shielding can produce high-quality surfacing welds. These are cored wires for surfacing of casting metals containing strong deoxidants (Ti, Al, etc.) and also cored wires for surfacing of wear-resistant materials with a high carbon content, i.e., above 2 wt%. The occurrence of porosity in wear-resistant surfacing welds is prevented by a strong deoxidation of the weld metal by carbon and by an increased partial pressure of carbon monoxide generated above the weld pool due to carbon combustion at elevated arc temperatures.     

Investigation on various welding consumables on properties of carbon steel material in gas metal arc welding under constant voltage mode

In this present work, the influence of different consumables on weld properties of carbon steel plate was studied by automatic gas metal arc welding under constant voltage mode. For all experiments, the process parameters such as welding current of 200 A, voltage of 28 V and welding speed of 200 mm/min were kept constant. The results indicate that the angular distortion remained higher for solid wire, whereas it was minimum for flux-cored wire and the lowest in metal-cored wire. Mechanical properties such as yield strength, tensile strength, elongation and joint efficiency remained high for solid wire relative to cored wire. Excellent impact toughness of the weld metal and heat-affected zone was reported for the flux-cored welds compared with solid wire and metal-cored welds.     

Hybrid laser/arc welding of advanced high strength steel in different butt joint configurations

An experimental procedure was developed to join thick advanced high strength steel plates by using the hybrid laser/arc welding (HLAW) process, for different butt joint configurations. The geometry of the weld groove was optimized according to the requirements of ballistic test, where the length of the softened heat affected zone should be less than 15.9 mm from the weld centerline. The cross-section of the welds was examined by microhardness test. The microstructure of welds was investigated by scanning electron microscopy and an optical microscope for further analysis of the microstructure of fusion zone and heat affected zone. It was demonstrated that by changing the geometry of groove, and increasing the stand-off distance between the laser beam and the tip of wire in gas metal arc welding (GMAW) it is possible to reduce the width of the heat affected zone and softened area while the microhardness stays within the acceptable range. It was shown that double Y-groove shape can provide the optimum condition for the stability of arc and laser. The dimensional changes of the groove geometry provided substantial impact on the amount of heat input, causing the fluctuations in the hardness of the weld as a result of phase transformation and grain size. The on-line monitoring of HLAW of the advanced high strength steel indicated the arc and laser were stable during the welding process. It was shown that less plasma plume was formed in the case where the laser was leading the arc in the HLAW, causing higher stability of the molten pool in comparison to the case where the arc was leading.     

Mathematical model of critical implant stress testing in the weld metal of API 5L X80 steel

In this paper the influence of heat input and preheat temperature on the critical implant stress was analyzed for the weld metal of API 5L X80. High strength steel marked as API 5L X80 is produced with a thermo – mechanical controlled process (TMCP), its chemical composition shows low carbon content due to which the steel has good weldability, but in the weld metal zone cold cracking can occure. The goal of this paper is to define optimal work conditions in form of flux cored arc welding (FCAW) welding parameters at which no cold cracks can be found. The experiment was conducted using central composite design (CCD) and design of experiments (DoE) with two independent variables (preheat temperature and heat input). Mathematical models were developed for all three different wire types that were used (two rutile, one basic flux cored wire). The samples in this paper which had cold cracks were further analyzed on the scanning electron microscope (SEM).     

C、Cu和Cr对10CrNiCu埋弧焊丝配烧结焊剂焊缝力学性能的影响

针对船用10CrNiCu钢设计了4种不同化学成分的埋弧焊丝,研究了焊丝与烧结焊剂配套使用时C、Cu、Cr元素对焊缝力学性能的影响。结果表明C、Cu可以增加焊缝中针状铁素体的含量,细化晶粒尺寸,从而提高焊缝的低温冲击韧性和拉伸强度,Cr含量增加可以提高焊缝强度,但会降低焊缝的冲击韧性。     

Elektrodenauswahl für das WIG‐Unterwasser‐Schweißen

Selection of electrode for GTA‐Underwater Welding Reproducible good weld quality and economical benefit of underwater‐welding require a complete automation. For this purpose Gas Tungsten Arc‐welding (GTA or TIG) offers numerous advantages, especially for the root and the following hot pass run. Disadvantages of GTA‐welding are the low weld deposit rate and the limited lifetime of the tungsten electrode. Already small wear damages cause wide alterations of the arc under high surrounding pressure, so that a suited choice of the electrode enables to increase the productivity considerably. Therefore the influence of the electrode features on welding process, arc stability, arc ignition, weld geometry and electrode wear has been investigated. For quick and elementary selection of electrode an assessment catalogue was elaborated.     

S275低合金钢焊接接头的组织与力学性能

通过拉伸、冲击、硬度测试和金相检验等方法对S275低合金钢熔化极活性气体保护焊(MAG)焊接接头的力学性能与显微组织进行了研究。结果表明:采用JM一56焊丝对S275低合金钢进行焊接时,接头具有较好的抗剪强度;开45。坡口,拉伸后均断在离焊缝位置较远的母材上,焊接接头抗拉强度满足技术要求。焊缝组织晶内为细小密集的针状铁素体,有极少量珠光体,焊缝局部有魏氏组织;熔合区、过热区为沿晶界析出的块状先共析铁素体和向晶内生长的条状铁素体以及少量的珠光体;正火区组织为细小的铁素体和珠光体;母材组织为铁素体和珠光体,晶粒也比较细小。最后得出S275低合金钢用于转向架焊接构架是可行的。     

Characterization of microstructure,mechanical properties and corrosion resistance of dissimilar welded joint between 2205 duplex stainless steel and 16MnR

The joint of dissimilar metals between 2205 duplex stainless steel and 16MnR low alloy high strength steel are welded by tungsten inert gas arc welding (GTAW) and shielded metal arc welding (SMAW) respectively. The microstructures of welded joints are investigated using scanning electron microscope, optical microscope and transmission electron microscopy respectively. The relationship between mechanical properties, corrosion resistance and microstructure of welded joints is evaluated. Results indicate that there are a decarburized layer and an unmixed zone close to the fusion line. It is also indicated that, austenite and acicular ferrite structures distribute uniformly in the weld metal, which is advantageous for better toughness and ductility of joints. Mechanical properties of joints welded by the two kinds of welding technology are satisfied. However, the corrosion resistance of the weldment produced by GTAW is superior to that by SMAW in chloride solution. Based on the present work, it is concluded that GTAW is the suitable welding procedure for joining dissimilar metals between 2205 duplex stainless steel and 16MnR.     

A review of friction stir welding of steels: Tool,material flow,microstructure, and properties

Considerable progress has been achieved in friction stir welding (FSW) of steels in every aspect of tool fabrication, microstructure control and properties evaluation in the past two decades. With the development of reliable welding tools and precise control systems, FSW of steels has reached a new level of technical maturity. High-quality, long welds can be produced in many engineering steels. Compared to traditional fusion welding, FSW exhibits unique advantages producing joints with better properties. As a result of active control of the welding temperature and/or cooling rate, FSW has the capability of fabricating steel joints with excellent toughness and strength. For example, unfavorable phase transformations that usually occur during traditional welding can be avoided and favorable phase fractions in advanced steels can be maintained in the weld zone thus avoiding the typical property degradations associated with fusion welding. If phase transformations do occur during FSW of thick steels, optimization of microstructure and properties can be attained by controlling the heat input and post-weld cooling rate.