It is still not clear why the long‐term properties of plastic weld seams can only be differentiated by the very expensive medium tensile creep tests. One hypothesis for justifying this is based on the change in the structure of the weld seam surroundings, another cites the consumption of antioxidants and the following ageing in the weld seam area to be responsible for this. Butt‐welded weld seams made of poly(propylene) were systematically produced under different process parameters. Corresponding to the particular hypothesis, these weld seams were then analyzed in various ways to find correlations or to prove one of the hypotheses. Regarding their short‐term weld seam quality, the analyzed weld seams could not be differentiated through short‐term tensile or short‐term bend test. However, the medium tensile creep tests showed significant differences in both time until failure and long‐term weld seam quality. Under long‐term loading, the start of the brittle crack could be detected in most weld seams in the fine spherulite‐zone or between this zone and the area of the flow lines. This demonstrated again that only long‐term tests are suitable for examining different weld seam qualities. Depending on the welding parameters, times until failure decline with increasing heated‐tool temperature and heating time. Though these parameters lead to a higher consumption of antioxidants in the weld seam, a degradation was not detected in the breaking area. In fact, increasing heated‐tool temperatures and heating times, as well as higher joining pressures lead to a change in the internal structure of the material. This can be seen in morphological structure analyses in the larger bend of the entire weld seam area. A larger bend, however, correlates with higher residual stresses in the weld seam. In the medium tensile creep tests, these residual stresses as well as the tensile stress in the border region and the compressive stress in the middle are superimposed by the tensile stress resulting from the test stress. Thus a greater bend of the weld seam area and higher residual stresses in the weld seam itself lead to shorter times until failure in medium tensile creep tests.
Schematic representation of the formation of residual stresses in a weld seam and residual stresses in the different bended weld seam areas. 相似文献
The vibration welding process for thermoplastics is known to consist of four phases: (1) initial heating of the interface to the melting temperature by Coulomb friction; (2) unsteady melting and flow in the lateral direction; (3) steady-state flow; and (4) unsteady flow and solidification of the film after the vibratory motion is stopped. Simple analytical models are developed for the first three phases. These models are used for estimating the molten film thickness, the size of the heat affected zone, and the weld time as functions of the weld parameters: the amplitude and frequency of the weld motion, and the weld pressure. The steady-state film thickness and the heat-affected zone are shown to be very small. 相似文献
AbstractPipelines used for the petrochemical, energy, and other industries contain 20 steel and 0Cr18Ni9. This paper based on the finite element simulation software Simufact Welding, the residual stress field and deformation results for 6-mm-thick 20/0Cr18Ni9 plates were examined by combining numerical simulation with experimental verification and performing an orthogonal experiment of three factors on different welding parameters. Herein, the thermodynamic coupling, isotropic hardening model, viscoplastic model, moving heat source are considered, and the experiments confirm the welding residual stress and deformation. The experimental results show that the stress distribution of each model is similar and the maximum stress appears in the fusion zone. Furthermore, the longitudinal residual stress is substantially greater than the transverse residual stress, whereas the minimum stress distribution is observed in paramaters of heat input 13493?J (welding layer 1) and 22400?J (welding layer 2), interpass temperature 50?°C, ambient temperature 65?°C. The minimum deformation occurred in paramaters of heat input 5913?J (welding layer 1) and 9200?J (welding layer 2), interpass temperature 250?°C, ambient temperature 65?°C, whereas the maximum deformation occurred in paramaters of heat input 13493?J (welding layer 1) and 22400?J (welding layer 2), interpass temperature 250?°C, ambient temperature 20?°C. Finally, the paramaters of heat input 7077?J (welding layer 1) and 11440?J (welding layer 2), interpass temperature 50?°C, ambient temperature 20?°C were selected to conduct the actual experiment and verify the residual stress and deformation. The results showed that the simulation results agreed with the actual results, thereby confirming the model’s reliability. 相似文献