Microstructure and Impact Toughness of Flux-Cored Arc Welded SM570-TMC Steel at Low and High Heat Input

2020 ◽  
Vol 991 ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
Herry Oktadinata ◽  
Winarto Winarto ◽  
Eddy S. Siradj
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Impact Toughness ◽  
Base Metal ◽  
Heat Input ◽  
Charpy Impact ◽  
Cored Wire ◽  
Average Heat ◽  
Weld Metals ◽  
Flux Cored Arc Welding ◽  
The Impact

This work investigated microstructure and impact toughness of multi-pass flux-cored arc welded SM570-TMC steel. A comparison was made between weldments fabricated with average heat input of 0.9 kJ/mm and 1.4 kJ/mm, respectively. SM570 steel plate with 16 mm nominal thickness and 1.2 mm diameter of E81-Ni1 flux-cored wire were selected in this experiment. Multi-pass flux-cored arc welding (FCAW) was performed using carbon dioxide shielding gas. Then the weldments were observed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and electron probe micro analyzer (EPMA). The steel joint strength was measured via tensile test, and Charpy impact test was performed at three different test temperatures. The microstructure observation exhibited the base metal mainly consist of ferrite and pearlite features, while the weld metal contained the acicular ferrites, polygonal ferrites and M-A constituent at both different heat inputs. The impact toughness of base metal is superior than weld metals. The weld metals fabricated at average heat input of 0.9 kJ/mm have a higher low temperature impact toughness than using heat input of 1.4 kJ/mm. The acicular ferrites amount that significant reduced at the higher heat input may degrade the toughness at low temperature.

Effects of oxygen content on microstructure and impact toughness of high heat input flux-cored wire weld metals

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (4) ◽  
pp. 410
Author(s):  
Fengyu Song ◽  
Yanmei Li ◽  
Ping Wang ◽  
Fuxian Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Grain Size ◽  
Impact Toughness ◽  
Weld Metal ◽  
Oxygen Content ◽  
Heat Input ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Cored Wire ◽  
Weld Metals ◽  
High Heat Input ◽  
The Impact

Three weld metals with different oxygen contents were developed. The influence of oxygen contents on the microstructure and impact toughness of weld metal was investigated through high heat input welding tests. The results showed that a large number of fine inclusions were formed and distributed randomly in the weld metal with oxygen content of 500 ppm under the heat input condition of 341 kJ/cm. Substantial cross interlocked acicular ferritic grains were induced to generate in the vicinity of the inclusions, primarily leading to the high impact toughness at low temperature for the weld metal. With the increase of oxygen content, the number of fine inclusions distributed in the weld metal increased and the grain size of intragranular acicular ferrites decreased, which enhanced the impact toughness of the weld metal. Nevertheless, a further increase of oxygen content would contribute to a great diminution of the austenitic grain size. Following that the fraction of grain boundary and the start temperature of transformation increased, which facilitated the abundant formation of pro-eutectoid ferrites and resulted in a deteriorative impact toughness of the weld metal.

Effect of Welding Processes with High Heat Input on the Microstructure and Toughness of Coarse-Grained Heat-Affected Zone of a High-Strength High-Toughness Steel

2018 ◽  
Vol 937 ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
Yu Jie Li ◽  
Jin Wei Lei ◽  
Xuan Wei Lei ◽  
Oleksandr Hress ◽  
Kai Ming Wu
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Impact Toughness ◽  
Heat Affected Zone ◽  
Heat Input ◽  
High Strength ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Low Temperature Impact Toughness ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Welding Processes

Utilizing submerged arc welding under heat input 50 kJ/cm on 60 mm thick marine engineering structure plate F550, the effect of preheating and post welding heat treatment on the microstructure and impact toughness of coarse-grained heat-affected zone (CGHAZ) has been investigated. The original microstructure of the steel plate is tempered martensite. The yield and tensile strength is 610 and 660 MPa, respectively. The impact absorbed energy at low temperature (-60 °C) at transverse direction reaches about 230~270 J. Welding results show that the preheating at 100 °C did not have obvious influence on the microstructure and toughness; whereas the tempering at 600 °C for 2.5 h after welding could significantly reduce the amount of M-A components in the coarse-grained heat-affected zone and thus improved the low temperature impact toughness.

Microstructure and Toughness of Weld CGHAZ Under Different Heat Input for X90 High Strength Pipeline Steel

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liuqing Yang ◽  
Yongli Sui ◽  
PeiPei Xia ◽  
Die Yang ◽  
Yongqing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Impact Toughness ◽  
Impact Energy ◽  
Heat Input ◽  
Pipeline Steel ◽  
Charpy Impact ◽  
Optical Microscope ◽  
Granular Bainite ◽  
Alloy Content ◽  
Welding Heat Input ◽  
The Impact

Two kinds of industry trial X90 pipeline steel which had different chemical composition were chosen as experimental materials, and the grain coarsening, microstructure evolution characteristics and the variation rules of low-temperature impact toughness in weld CGHAZ of this two steel under different welding heat input were studied by physical thermal simulation technology, SEM, optical microscope and Charpy impact test. The results show that microstructure in weld CGHAZ of 1# steel is mainly bainite ferrite (BF) and most of the M/A constituents are blocky or short rod-like; the grains of 2# steel are coarse and there is much granular bainite (GB), meanwhile M/A constituents become coarse and their morphology is changing from block to elongated laths; alloy content of X90 pipeline steel under different welding heat input has great effect on the grain size of original austenite, and when heat input is lower than 2.0KJ/mm, Charpy impact toughness in CGHAZ of lower alloy content pipeline steel is good; as heat input increases, impact toughness in CGHAZ of 1# steel is on the rise, and it is high (between 260J and 300J) when heat input is between 2.0KJ/mm and 2.5KJ/mm and the scatter of impact energy is small; impact toughness of 2# steel decreases gradually and the impact energy has obvious variability.

scholarly journals Microstructure features and formation mechanism in a newly developed electroslag welding

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomonori Kakizaki ◽  
Shodai Koga ◽  
Hajime Yamamoto ◽  
Yoshiki Mikami ◽  
Kazuhiro Ito ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Weld Metal ◽  
Heat Input ◽  
Acicular Ferrite ◽  
Charpy Impact ◽  
Electroslag Welding ◽  
Weld Metals ◽  
Columnar Grains ◽  
Cooling Speed ◽  
Low Temperature Toughness

AbstractElectroslag welding (ESW) is known to show higher heat input than electrogas welding (EGW), resulting in poor low-temperature toughness. However, a newly developed ESW (dev. ESW) method using low-resistivity slag bath exhibited excellent low-temperature toughness as a result of lower effective heat input than conventional EGW, as demonstrated by the faster cooling rates measured in weld metals and estimated using finite element method analyses. This led to much shallower molten pool in the dev. ESW, resulting in much finer columnar grains and thinner centerline axial grains. High cooling speed in the dev. ESW method appeared to contribute to increased acicular ferrite proportion. The uniform microstructure with large acicular ferrite proportion and small number of inclusions in the weld metal permitted the dev. ESW weld metal to possess little variation in Charpy impact energy across the center of weld metal.

Effect of Heat Input on Toughness of Deposited Metal at -40οC of Self-Shielded Flux-Cored Wire

2011 ◽  
Vol 291-294 ◽  
pp. 979-983
Author(s):  
Shao Peng Song ◽  
Zhuo Xin Li ◽  
Guo Dong Li ◽  
Tian Li Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Heat Input ◽  
Polygonal Ferrite ◽  
Granular Bainite ◽  
Chemical Compositions ◽  
Cored Wire ◽  
Slight Tendency ◽  
Deposited Metal ◽  
Low Temperature Toughness ◽  
The Impact

The effect of welding heat input ranging from 1.507 KJ/mm to 2.987KJ/mm on low temperature toughness of deposited metal made by self-shielded flux-cored wire has been investigated. The results showed that low temperature toughness decreased with the increase of heat input, and the impact fracture changed from ductile to cleavage fracture. In addition, the chemical compositions demonstrated a slight tendency to decrease with increasing heat input. While, heat input has little effect on inclusions of deposited metal. Higher heat input lead to grains coarsened further, reduced acicular ferrite and granular bainite, and increased polygonal ferrite, which mainly lead to toughness decreased.

scholarly journals Effect of Nickel on the Microstructure, Hardness and Impact Toughness of SM570-TMC Weld Metals

2019 ◽  
Vol 269 ◽  
pp. 02007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nova Arief Setiyanto ◽  
Herry Oktadinata ◽  
Winarto Winarto
Keyword(s):  
Impact Toughness ◽  
Weld Metal ◽  
Nickel Content ◽  
Optical Microscope ◽  
Fusion Welding ◽  
Welding Wire ◽  
Butt Weld ◽  
Weld Metals ◽  
Flux Cored Arc Welding ◽  
The Impact

SM570-TMC steel was applied in the various fields of steel construction where higher strength is required than conventional mild steel. This steel is commonly fabricated by fusion welding where flux-cored arc welding (FCAW) is preferred due to efficiency consideration. In this study, 14 mm thickness of SM570-TMC steel was butt weld by FCAW using three electrode wires with different nickel content (0% Ni, 1% Ni, 1.5% Ni). The microstructure of weldments was studied using an optical microscope. The hardness distribution tests were performed in the heat affected zone, parent metal and weld metal. And impact toughness of weld metals were measured at temperatures of 25 °C, 0 °C and -20 °C. The results show the steel plate welded using welding wire containing 1% Ni provides more superior impact toughness in the weld metal than welding wire 0% Ni, while the impact toughness of the sample which welded using welding wire containing 1.5% tend to decrease. Nickel element which deposited to weld metal by using welding wires containing 1% Ni has improved the impact toughness, but 1.5% Ni may too high which deteriorate impact toughness.

Microstructure and Properties of Weld CGHAZ under Different Heat Input for X90 Pipeline Steel

2016 ◽  
Vol 850 ◽  
pp. 943-949
Author(s):  
Liu Qing Yang ◽  
Yong Li Sui ◽  
Pei Pei Xia ◽  
Hai Hong Zhao ◽  
Zhang Hua Yin
Keyword(s):  
Impact Toughness ◽  
Impact Energy ◽  
Heat Input ◽  
Pipeline Steel ◽  
Charpy Impact ◽  
Optical Microscope ◽  
Granular Bainite ◽  
Alloy Content ◽  
Low Temperature Impact Toughness ◽  
The Impact

Two kinds of industry trial X90 pipeline steels which have different chemical composition were chosen as test objects, and the grain coarsening, microstructural characteristics and the variation rules of low-temperature impact toughness in weld CGHAZ of this two steel under different welding heat input were studied by physical thermal simulation technology, SEM, optical microscope and Charpy impact tests. The results showed that the microstructure in weld CGHAZ of 1# steel was mainly bainite ferrite (BF) and most of the M/A constituents were blocky or short rod-like; the grains of 2# steel were coarse and there was much granular bainite (GB). Meanwhile M/A constituents became coarser and their morphology changed from block to long bar; alloy content of X90 pipeline steel under different weld heat input had great effect on the grain size of original austenite. When heat input was lower than 20KJ/cm, the impact toughness in CGHAZ of lower alloy content pipeline steel was good; as heat input increased, impact toughness in CGHAZ of 1# steel increased to the values between 260J and 300J when heat input was between 20KJ/cm and 25KJ/cm and the dispersion of impact energy was small. The impact toughness of 2# steel decreased gradually and the impact energy had the obvious dispersion.

scholarly journals Structure and Properties of Coatings Made with Self Shielded Cored Wire

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Gucwa ◽  
J. Winczek ◽  
R. Bęczkowski ◽  
M. Dośpiał
Keyword(s):  
Heat Input ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
High Hardness ◽  
Properties Of Coatings ◽  
Cored Wire ◽  
Eutectic Carbides ◽  
Hard Particles ◽  
Wear And Corrosion ◽  
Flux Cored Arc Welding ◽  
Cored Wires

Abstract The welding technologies are widely used for design of protection layer against wear and corrosion. Hardfacing, which is destined for obtaining coatings with high hardness, takes special place in these technologies. One of the most effective way of hardfacing is using self shielded flux cored arc welding (FCAW-S). Chemical composition obtained in flux cored wire is much more rich in comparison to this obtained in solid wire. The filling in flux cored wires can be enriched for example with the mixture of hard particles or phases with specified ratio, which is not possible for solid wires. This is the reason why flux cored wires give various possibilities of application of this kind of filler material for improving surface in mining industry, processing of minerals, energetic etc. In the present paper the high chromium and niobium flux cored wire was used for hardfacing process with similar heat input. The work presents studies of microstructures of obtained coatings and hardness and geometric properties of them. The structural studies were made with using optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction that allowed for identification of carbides and other phases obtained in the structures of deposited materials. Investigated samples exhibit differences in coating structures made with the same heat input 4,08 kJ/mm. There are differences in size, shape and distribution of primary and eutectic carbides in structure. These differences cause significant changes in hardness of investigated coatings.

Microstructure, Mechanical and Corrosion Properties of UNS 32205 Duplex Stainless Steel Weldment Joints by Multipass FCAW

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 332-353
Author(s):  
A. Kisasoz ◽  
M. Tümer ◽  
A. Karaaslan
Keyword(s):  
Arc Welding ◽  
Weld Seam ◽  
Electrochemical Corrosion ◽  
Charpy Impact ◽  
Corrosion Properties ◽  
Cored Wire ◽  
Weld Joints ◽  
Flux Cored Arc Welding ◽  
Mechanical And Corrosion Properties ◽  
Stainless Steel Weldment

Abstract In this study, the effect of multipass welding on the microstructure, mechanical and corrosion properties of the UNS 32205 duplex stainless steels (DSS) is investigated. The UNS 32205 DSS is welded in 3 or 7 passes by flux-cored arc welding (FCAW) using E2209 T1 – 1/4 flux cored wire. The weldments are characterized by light optical microscopy (LOM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), Feritscope analysis, Charpy impact tests and electrochemical corrosion tests. The results suggest that the multipass FCAW process induces the formation of γ2 in the weld seam. The mechanical and the corrosion properties of the weld joints are affected by the heat input variation and the phase transformations. Especially, the formation of the γ2 in the weld seam results in a decrease in the corrosion resistance of the joint samples.

Effects of Al, Si and N Content on the Formation of M-A Constituent and HAZ Toughness of Ti-Containing Low-Carbon Steel

2021 ◽  
Vol 1016 ◽  
pp. 42-49
Author(s):  
Kook Soo Bang ◽  
Joo Hyeon Cha ◽  
Kyu Tae Han ◽  
Hong Chul Jeong
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Steel ◽  
Impact Toughness ◽  
Low Carbon Steel ◽  
Charpy Impact ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
N Content ◽  
Si Content ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Haz Toughness

The present work investigated the effects of Al, Si, and N content on the impact toughness of the coarse-grained heat-affected zone (CGHAZ) of Ti-containing low-carbon steel. Simulated CGHAZ of differing Al, Si, and N contents were prepared, and Charpy impact toughness was determined. The results were interpreted in terms of microstructure, especially martensite-austenite (M-A) constituent. All elements accelerated ferrite transformation in CGHAZ but at the same time increased the amount of M-A constituent, thereby deteriorating CGHAZ toughness. It is believed that Al, Si, and free N that is uncombined with Ti retard the decomposition of austenite into pearlite and increase the carbon content in the last transforming austenite, thus increasing the amount of M-A constituent. Regardless of the amount of ferrite in CGHAZ, its toughness decreased linearly with an increase of M-A constituent in this experiment, indicating that HAZ toughness is predominantly affected by the presence of M-A constituent. When a comparison of the effectiveness is made between Al and Si, it showed that a decrease in Si content is more effective in reducing M-A constituents.

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