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Butt welding

About: Butt welding is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 7153 publications have been published within this topic receiving 44467 citations.


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TL;DR: In this paper, a new welding method for fully automatic welding of pipelines has been developed, called Friex, which is a new variant of the well-known friction welding process and an intermediate ring is rotated in between the pipes to be welded to generate the heat necessary to realize the weld.

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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of friction stir weld tool travel angle and machine compliance on joint efficiency of butt welded 5083-H111 aluminum alloy in the presence of joint gaps were investigated.
Abstract: This paper presents an investigation of the effects of friction stir weld tool travel angle and machine compliance on joint efficiency of butt welded 5083-H111 aluminum alloy in the presence of joint gaps. Friction stir welds are produced with a CNC mill and an industrial robot at travel angles of 1 deg, 3 deg, and 5 deg with gaps from 0 mm to 2 mm, in 0.5 mm increments. Results indicate that the more rigid mill resulted in higher joint efficiencies than the relatively compliant robot when welding gaps greater than 1 mm with a 3 deg travel angle using our test setup. The results also show that when gaps exceed 1 mm welds made with a travel (tilt) angle of 5 deg are able to generate higher joint efficiencies than welds made with a travel angle of 1 deg and 3 deg. Based on tool geometry and workpiece dimensions, a simple model is presented that is able to estimate the joint efficiency of friction stir welds as a function of gap width, travel angle, and plunge depth. This model can be used as an assistive tool in optimizing weld process parameters and tool design when welding over gaps. Experimental results show that the model is able to estimate the joint efficiency for the test cases presented in this paper.

41 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a 16 kW high power disc laser together with a hot wire to produce a fully penetrated keyhole, which was used to suppress welding defects and suppress welding metal oxygen content.
Abstract: This study, which pertains to the butt welding of 590 MPa high strength steel plates with a high power laser over gaps, was conducted to investigate weld penetration characteristics, to clarify welding phenomena, and to develop procedures for obtaining high quality joints. Butt welding was performed on 12 mm thick plates with a 16 kW high power disc laser together with a hot wire. In this way, welding defects are suppressed and weld metal oxygen content is controlled, thereby producing sound, fully penetrated welds. Penetrations were stable over a range of gaps from 0 to 0·4 mm, owing to an ejection of excess melt through a keyhole outlet at the bottom of the molten weld pool by a strong plume. Here, the use of a hot wire together with a laser of sufficient power to produce a fully penetrated keyhole was effective in improving the gap tolerance and suppressing oxygen inclusion within the butt weld.

41 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a 1mm-thick age-hardened Al-Mg-Si alloy, 6061-T6, plates were welded with full penetration using a 2.5kW CO2 laser.
Abstract: Laser beam welding is an attractive welding process for age-hardened aluminum alloys, because its low heat input minimizes the width of weld fusion and heat-affected zones (HAZs). In the present work, 1-mm-thick age-hardened Al-Mg-Si alloy, 6061-T6, plates were welded with full penetration using a 2.5-kW CO2 laser. Fractions of porosity in the fusion zones were less than 0.05 pct in bead-on-plate welding and less than 0.2 pct in butt welding with polishing the groove surface before welding. The width of a softened region in the-laser beam welds was less than 1/4 times that of a tungsten inert gas (TIG) weld. The softened region is caused by reversion of strengthening β″ (Mg2Si) precipitates due to weld heat input. The hardness values of the softened region in the laser beam welds were almost fully recovered to that of the base metal after an artificial aging treatment at 448 K for 28.8 ks without solution annealing, whereas those in the TIG weld were not recovered in a partly reverted region. Both the bead-on-plate weld and the butt weld after the postweld artificial aging treatment had almost equivalent tensile strengths to that of the base plate.

41 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the simulation of gas tungsten arc welding in thin-walled cylinders is presented to precisely capture the distortions and residual stresses, computational methodology based on three-dimensional finite element model for the simulation, and the simulated result shows close correlation with the experimental measurements.
Abstract: Circumferential weld specifically in thin-walled structures is a common joint type in the fabrication of structural members in aerospace, aeronautical and pressure vessel industries. This type of weld joint suffers various types of weld-induced residual stress fields (hoop and axial) and deformation patterns (axial shrinkage, radial shrinkage). These imperfections have negative effects on fabrication accuracies and result in low strength welded structures that can lead to premature failures. To precisely capture the distortions and residual stresses, computational methodology based on three-dimensional finite element model for the simulation of gas tungsten arc welding in thin-walled cylinders is presented. Butt-weld geometry with single “V” for a 300 mm outer diameter cylinder of 3 mm thick is used. The complex phenomenon of arc welding is numerically solved by sequentially coupled transient, non-linear thermo-mechanical analysis. The accuracy of both the thermal and structural models is validated through experiments for temperature distribution, residual stresses and distortion. The simulated result shows close correlation with the experimental measurements.

41 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202328
2022122
2021112
2020219
2019290
2018349