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In large steel construction, as in steel bridges, construction site welds are made under difficult conditions such as low temperatures and wind. The comprehensive study will show not only test results from the analysis in the climate chamber (large scale test) with low temperatures (-20°C, -10°C) as well as numerical calculations with the help of welding simulation and non-linear structural analysis. Deflections and temperature are given and compared with traditional engineering models and advises for future problems are presented. For bridge girders with I cross sections, welded thick plates are used and there joining need to be considered precisely. Effect from welding, such as deflections and residual stresses, will have an outcome on the performed component. For welding of thick plates multi-layer welding is used. The edges need to be cut before welding. The preparation process needs to be considered as well as actual joining to have an economic performance. As joint geometry the Z-joint was chosen and investigated. Results from testing as well as from the welding simulation will be shown and compared. Thereby an engineering model will be consulted to evaluate the results. To evaluate the impact of the welding process a FEM load capacity calculation was performed and will be compared with test without imperfections from the joining process.
Large-scale steel structures are not created on the site. Assembly groups are prefabricated under shop conditions and transported to the site, where the final assembly process takes place. Due to the advantages of manufacturing in a workshop, e.g. the defined ambient conditions, those assembly parts are as big as the transportation possibilities. The final assembling on the site is exposed to the ambient conditions there, which is why assembling on site may be conducted at temperatures below freezing point. Thus high cooling rates induce phase transformations at low temperature and therefore local hardening and are also affecting shrinkage, distortion and residual stresses.
Before approving the construction designers need to estimate occurring shrinkage, distortions and residual stresses never knowing what the construction workers on the site really do. It is impossible to supervise or monitor the whole assembling process. That is why it is necessary to think about possible worst cases like clamped welding components, although a clamp was not to be set. Construction workers might apply fixations in order to adhere to specifications, thus creating residual stresses which may have a significant impact on the fatigue behaviour of a construction.
In this paper large-scale specimens are investigated. These were derived from actual bridge girders and welded in a climatic chamber simulating different cooling rates on the site (up to -10°C). Welding experiments were accompanied by distortion and temperature field monitoring. Afterwards residual stresses were determined using x-ray diffraction. Finally welding distortions and residual stresses are calculated using numerical welding simulation. The simulated and experimental results are compared.
The lateral-torsional buckling resistance of welded steel girders is affected by their residual stresses and geo-metric imperfections. Generally, both influences are mainly controlled by the manufacturing process, in partic-ular the welding of the girder. This paper presents experimental investigations on four laterally unbraced welded steel girders with thin-walled I-sections, whose flange-to-web junctions are welded from one or two sides to evaluate the fabrication influence. The investigations include lateral-torsional buckling tests under combined bending and torsion loading caused by three-point bending due to an eccentric vertical single force. The geometric imperfections of the welded test girders are determined by 3D laser scanning. The test results show that the influence of the geometric imperfections and the residual stresses on the lateral-torsional buck-ling resistance is limited for the tested girders.
Residual stresses have major influence on the stability of steel members. It is well-known that, due to the differences in manufacturing procedures, the residual stresses for welded and hot – rolled members are rather different. In the same way, despite several studies on residual stresses distribution and magnitude for hot-rolled members were already done, for prismatic and tapered welded I section steel members the investigation is still very scarce. In the current work, an experimental programme on the buckling resistance of tapered members, with different tapering ratios and section heights, was conducted and residual stress measurements were carried out using the sectioning method. Numerical simulations of the heat input during welding were also performed in order to predict the residual stress fields. A statistical analysis of the residual stresses distribution for welded I section members was performed, using the experimental and numerical results, as well as literature data. Systematized information on residual stresses distribution and magnitude was generated and some guidelines for the statistical characterization of residual stresses in welded members were proposed.