Evaluation of residual stress in the weld toe region is of critical importance. In this paper, the residual stress distribution both near the surface and in depth around the weld toe was investigated using neutron diffraction, complemented with X-ray diffraction. Measurements were done on a 1300 MPa yield strength steel welded using a Low Transformation Temperature (LTT) consumable. Near surfac...

Abstract At present, there are few researches on laser -MIG arc hybrid welding with a large butt gap. In this paper, laser-MIG is used to weld low-alloy high-strength steel thickness of 3 mm, and process under gap conditions developed. This paper studies the effects voltage, laser-wire distance, wire feed speed bridging capability different butting gaps. Under condition 1 mm gap, influence mech...

-S 169 WELDING JOURNAL ABSTRACT. A 3-D transient numerical model was developed for simulation of gas metal arc (GMA) weld pools with free surface and droplet impact effects. This effort predicted a moving GMA weld pool by considering not only the heat transfer and fluid flow driven by surface tension gradient, electromagnetic force, buoyancy, and arc pressure, but also detailed information abou...

Girth weld cracking is one of the main failure modes in oil and gas pipelines; girth weld cracking inspection has great economic and social significance for the intrinsic safety of pipelines. This paper introduces the typical girth weld defects of oil and gas pipelines and the common nondestructive testing methods, and systematically generalizes the progress in the studies on technical principl...

Laser-based ultrasonic (LBU) measurement shows great promise for on-line monitoring of weld quality in tailor-welded blanks. Tailor-welded blanks are steel blanks made from plates of differing thickness and/or properties butt-welded together; they are used in automobile manufacturing to produce body, frame, and closure panels. LBU uses a pulsed laser to generate the ultrasound and a continuous ...

This paper considers a 3-D thermos-mechanical analysis to investigate the effect of welding direction, tack weld, root gap and process on deformation in hub flange pipe joint. Multi-pass for single ‘V’ butt-weld joint geometry is simulated weld path used with realistic bead. 3 different direction (2-path, 4-path diagonally, from bottom) are analyzed how presence or absence affects was analyzed....

Quality of welded joint at MAG welding process depends of numbers of influences, like type and thickness of base metal, groove type, welding position etc., but the proper selection of welding parameters is also very important. Due to that, the analysis of weld bead geometry at MAG welding process with regard to weld current, voltage and weld speed (heat input) and the type and shielding gas flo...

Process monitoring is important for the laser welding system, especially for the weld seam deviation monitoring. A 10kW high power fiber laser butt joint welding of type 304 stainless steel was performed. By combing two different band pass filters, high speed photography was employed to capture the near-infrared images of molten pools. Image difference algorithm was used to obtain the weld seam...

in this paper, the optimum shape of tailor-welded blanks (twb) is investigated. the optimization is performed for two different case studies. the first example is deep drawing of a twb with dissimilar materials and uniform thicknesses and the next example is deep drawing of a twb with similar materials and non-uniform thicknesses. the effect of blank optimization on the weld line movement is in...

The present work has been carried out to study the sensitization behavior of AISI 304L austenitic stainless steel weld, fabricated using GTAW (gas tungsten arc welding process). This weld was subjected to post weld thermal aging (PWTA) treatments lying in the sensitization range, viz. 700 ?C for 30 minutes, 500 minutes and 1000 minutes for studying the influence of carbide precipitation on thei...