TY - JOUR A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Comparison between CO2- and Nd: YAG-laser beam welding of high-strength CrMnNi steels for the automotive industry JF - Welding in the world N2 - IIW-2326 Austenitic and austenitic-ferritic CrMnNi-stainless steels are suitable materials in the transport and automotive industry due to their high corrosion resistance and high strength that allows weight and cost savings. This study focuses on the laser weldability of a commercial lean duplex and an austenitic high manganese stainless steel. The impact of different laser sources, i.e. a 5 kW CO2- and a 4 kW Nd:YAG-laser, and of the main process parameters on the resulting weld quality will be investigated. One important aspect will concern the appearance of weld defects such as pores and hot cracks. The factors causing such internal imperfections will be analysed in order to find effective methods for preventing them. Weld microstructure and the associated corrosion and mechanical properties will be assessed with different techniques and adequate process parameters for high quality welds will be determined. The advantages and limitations of the applied welding processes will be evaluated for future applications. KW - Laser beam welding KW - Stainless steel KW - Austenitic KW - Duplex KW - Weld microstructure KW - Pores KW - Cracks KW - Corrosion KW - Tensile strength PY - 2012 SN - 0043-2288 SN - 1878-6669 VL - 56 IS - 11/12 SP - 129 EP - 142 PB - Springer CY - Oxford AN - OPUS4-27911 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gebhardt, Moritz Oliver A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Laser/GMA hybrid welding of thick-walled precision pipes JF - Welding and cutting N2 - Thick-walled pipes made of steel are the basis of a large number of components in mechanical and installation engineering, e.g. for hydraulic components, in power station technology or in the petroleum industry. Particularly when strict positional and shape tolerances are demanded, the classical manufacturing process is chip-producing machining from the solid material. However, this is time-intensive and material-intensive. The laser/GMA hybrid processes with modern high-power lasers are a suitable alternative. With these processes, it is currently possible to weld components with a wall thickness up to approx. 15 mm with little distortion in one pass. However, in initial experiments, solidification cracks with longitudinal and vertical orientations in relation to the welding direction, so-called central line cracks, were established in welds on pipes. Within the framework of a research project, it was possible to determine the cause of the cracking and to find measures in order to avoid it. The technical boundary conditions could be complied with in this respect. The article gives an overview of the research project and the essential results. PY - 2012 SN - 1612-3433 VL - 11 IS - 5 SP - 312 EP - 318 PB - DVS - German Welding Society CY - Düsseldorf AN - OPUS4-26912 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Investigations on laser beam welding of high-manganese austenitic and austenitic-ferritic stainless steels JF - The Paton welding journal KW - Laser welding KW - CO2- and Nd:YAG laser KW - Stainless austenitic and duplex steels KW - Higher manganese content KW - Process stability KW - Shielding atmosphere KW - Weld metal KW - Microstructure KW - Mechanical properties KW - Corrosion resistance PY - 2012 SN - 0957-798X VL - 1 SP - 10 EP - 14 PB - E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute of the National Acad. of Sciences of Ukraine CY - Kyïv AN - OPUS4-27062 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rethmeier, Michael A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa T1 - Investigation on laser beam welding of high-manganese austenitic and austenitic-ferritic stainless steels JF - Avtomaticeskaja svarka PY - 2012 SN - 0005-111x SN - 0005-2302 VL - 1 IS - 705 SP - 12 EP - 17 CY - Kiev, Ukraine AN - OPUS4-27209 LA - rus AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Investigation of the hot cracking susceptibility of laser welds with the controlled tensile weldability test JF - The journal of strain analysis for engineering design N2 - Due to significant developments over the last decades, laser beam welding has become a well-established industrial process offering high processing speeds and causing low component distortions. But an important issue currently preventing its intense use, especially in the energy or plant construction sector where high alloy steels are applied, concerns hot crack formation. Although considerable advances in understanding hot cracking mechanisms have been made, most of the known influencing factors are metallurgical in character. The thermo-mechanical effects are barely considered or quantified. Up to the present, there exist numerous hot cracking tests that were however conceived for welding methods other than laser beam welding. Considering the special features of the laser welding process, such as high cooling rates and the narrow process zone, results obtained with other welding techniques and test procedures cannot be transferred to laser beam welding. In this study, the laser beam weldability of various stainless steels was examined in terms of their susceptibility to hot cracking by means of the controlled tensile weldability test, which was proven to be suitable for use in conjunction with CO2 laser welding. This test allows the application of tensile strain at a variable fixed cross-head speed transverse to the welding direction. Full and partial penetration bead-on-plate welds were produced. In a first attempt to determine the impact of the applied external strain on the local transient strains and strain rates near the weld pool, an optical system was used to measure the backside surface of partial penetration welds. The results showed the influence of the strain and the strain rates on hot crack formation. Furthermore, a classification of the studied austenitic, duplex and ferritic stainless steels according to the established test criteria (critical strain and cross-head speed) was conducted. KW - Laser beam welding KW - CO2 laser KW - Hot cracking KW - Stainless steels KW - Critical strains KW - Strain rates KW - Hot cracking test KW - Controlled tensile weldability test PY - 2012 DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/0309324712462120 SN - 0309-3247 SN - 2041-3130 VL - 47 IS - 8 SP - 587 EP - 599 PB - Sage CY - London AN - OPUS4-27281 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Laser beam weldability of high-manganese austenitic and duplex stainless steel sheets JF - Welding in the world N2 - Manganese alloyed stainless steels represent a cost-effective alternative to conventional CrNi- stainless steels due to strong fluctuations of the market prices for nickel seen during the last years. In CrMnNi steels, nickel is partially replaced by lower-cost manganese and small amounts of nitrogen for stabilization of the austenitic phase. This also brings benefits regarding the mechanical properties, as it results in an increased material strength. Laser beam welding of such materials was investigated for direct comparison with standard CrNi steels. Main emphasis was laid on finding adequate process parameters to achieve a stable welding process and obtain a good weld quality. Two different laser sources, a 4.4 kW Nd:YAG and a 5 kW CO2 laser, were used to weld 1.5 mm stainless steel sheets in continuous wave mode. A high-Mn austenitic (1.4376) and a lean duplex (1.4162) steel, as well as the standard austenitic (1.4301) and duplex (1.4362) grades were selected as test materials. Both butt and lap joint configurations were studied. Experiments were carried out systematically, varying the welding speed, laser power and focal point position in order to determine adequate process windows. The influence of the shielding gas type and flow rate on the process stability and the weld quality were investigated. The effects of weld edge preparation on the weld appearance and quality levels attained were also examined. The obtained welded joints were subjected to radiographic tests for detection of internal imperfections. Also a metallurgical characterization of the samples regarding the resulting phase composition or balance and hardness depending on the welding process parameters was conducted. Furthermore, tensile and potentiodynamic tests were performed to evaluate the mechanical and corrosion properties, respectively. The results provide an insight into the advantages and limitations of the laser beam welding process for joining high-manganese alloyed stainless steels. Conditions for the production of defect-free and corrosion-resistant welds having good mechanical properties could be determined. KW - Austenitic stainless steels KW - Corrosion KW - CO2 lasers KW - Duplex stainless steels KW - Laser welding KW - Manganese KW - Mechanical properties KW - Shielding gases KW - YAG lasers KW - Weldability PY - 2012 SN - 0043-2288 SN - 1878-6669 VL - 56 IS - 1/2 SP - 9 EP - 20 PB - Springer CY - Oxford AN - OPUS4-25404 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gebhardt, Moritz Oliver A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Laserstrahl-MSG-Hybridschweißen dickwandiger Präzisionsrohre JF - Schweißen und Schneiden : Fachzeitschrift für Schweißen und verwandte Verfahren N2 - Dickwandige Rohre aus Stahl sind die Basis einer Vielzahl von Komponenten im Maschinen- und Anlagenbau, zum Beispiel bei Hydraulikkomponenten, in der Kraftwerkstechnik oder der Petroindustrie. Insbesondere, wenn hohe Lage- und Formtoleranzen gefordert werden, ist das klassische Herstellungsverfahren ein Zerspanen aus dem Vollmaterial. Dies ist jedoch zeit- und materialintensiv. Als Alternative bieten sich die Laserstrahl-MSGHybridverfahren mit modernen Hochleistungslasern an. Mit diesen Verfahren ist es derzeit möglich, Bauteile bis zu etwa 15 mm Wanddicke verzugsarm und einlagig zu verschweißen. In ersten Experimenten wurden bei Schweißungen an Rohren jedoch in Bezug auf die Schweißrichtung längs und vertikal orientierte Erstarrungsrisse, so genannte Mittelrippendefekte, festgestellt. Im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojekts konnte die Ursache der Rissentstehung ermittelt und Maßnahmen zur Vermeidung gefunden werden. Dabei ließen sich die technischen Randbedingungen einhalten. Der Artikel gibt einen Überblick über das Forschungsprojekt und die wesentlichen Ergebnisse. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thick-walled pipes made of steel are the basis of a large number of components in mechanical and installation engineering, e.g. for hydraulic components, in power station technology or in the petroleum industry. Particularly when strict positional and shape tolerances are demanded, the classical manufacturing process is chip-producing machining from the solid material. However, this is time-intensive and material- intensive. The laser/GMA hybrid processes with modern high-power lasers are a suitable alternative. With these processes, it is currently possible to weld components with a wall thickness up to approx. 15 mm with little distortion in one pass. However, in initial experiments, solidification cracks with longitudinal and vertical orientations in relation to the welding direction, so-called central rib defects, were established in welds on pipes. Within the framework of a research project, it was possible to determine the cause of the cracking and to find measures in order to avoid it. The technical boundary conditions could be complied with in this respect. The article gives an overview of the research project and the essential results. KW - Laserstrahlschweißen KW - Prozesskombinationen KW - Rissbildung KW - Schutzgasschweißen KW - Schweißnahtfehler KW - Laser welding KW - Process combinations KW - Crack formation KW - Gas-shielded arc welding KW - Weld defects PY - 2012 SN - 0036-7184 VL - 64 IS - 5 SP - 254 EP - 259 PB - Verl. für Schweißen u. Verwandte Verfahren, DVS-Verl. CY - Düsseldorf AN - OPUS4-26054 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Böllinghaus, Thomas A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa ED - Lippold, J. ED - Böllinghaus, T. ED - Cross, C.E. ED - et al., T1 - Short Term Metallurgy and Hot Cracking During Laser Beam Welding of Austenitic Stainless Steels T2 - Hot cracking phenomena in welds III N2 - Industrial application of high alloyed austenitic stainless steel laser welding has grown significantly in the recent time due to the continuous improvement of compact and high power density lasers systems. The application of such processes meanwhile ranges from pipeline or railway car body manufacturing to the production of household wares. The largest advantages of the laser application to welding production are much higher welding speeds, reduction or complete exclusion of welding consumables, easy design of the weld joints, decrease of thermal distortions and thus, costs saving. In contrast to arc welding, laser beam welding might particularly be associated with metallurgical defects, like the formation of hot cracks. Such phenomena are related to an order of magnitude higher temperature gradients and cooling rates in the solidification zone, providing rapid solidification kinetics which may cause significant segregation of alloying elements such as Ni and Cr and respective undercooling of the solute at the solidification front. In specific metastable austenitic stainless steels alloys in vicinity of the so called eutectic rim of the Fe-Cr-Ni constitutional diagram, such effects might entail a change of solidification mode from primary ferrite to austenite, providing an increased risk of solidification cracking. Previous studies has shown that the primary solidification mode change during laser beam welding of Cr-Ni austenitic stainless steels such alloys could be effectively influenced by nitrogen absorption as well as by the laser plasma type and also proved the occurrence of metastable primary ferritic solidification. In the present contribution, such results are compared to recent investigations of laser welding newer austenitic Fe-Cr-Mn-Ni steel grades by identification of respective hot cracking critical welding parameter intervals and strain rates in the Controlled Thermal Weldability (CTW) Test. PY - 2011 SN - 978-3-642-16863-5 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16864-2_7 IS - Part 2 SP - 103 EP - 129 PB - Springer CY - Berlin, Heidelberg AN - OPUS4-24348 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Comparison between CO2- and Nd: YAG-laser beam welding of high strength CrMnNi-steels for the automotive industry T2 - 64th IIW-Annual Assemby T2 - 64th IIW-Annual Assemby CY - Chennai, India DA - 2011-07-17 PY - 2011 AN - OPUS4-25027 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Comparison between CO2- and Nd: YAG-Laser beam welding of high strength CrMnNi-steels for the automotive industry T2 - Select Committe "Automotive and Road transport" Intermediate Meeting T2 - Select Committe "Automotive and Road transport" Intermediate Meeting CY - IJmuiden, Netherlands DA - 2011-04-11 PY - 2011 AN - OPUS4-25030 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Properties of laser welded H400 austenitic chrome-manganese stainless steel sheets T2 - 3rd International Conference Steels in Cars and Trucks T2 - 3rd International Conference Steels in Cars and Trucks CY - Salzburg, Austria DA - 2011-06-05 PY - 2011 AN - OPUS4-25031 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Investigations on laser beam welding of high-manganese austenitic and austenitic-ferritic stainless steels T2 - LTWMP '11 - 5th International conference "Laser technologies in welding and materials processing" (Proceedings) N2 - Influence of the main laser welding parameters on process stability and resulting weld quality were investigated. Effects of weld edge preparation on the weld appearance and quality were considered. The obtained welded joints were subjected to radiographic tests for detection of internal imperfections. Metallurgical characterisation of the samples regarding the resulting phase composition and hardness was conducted. Tensile and potentiodynamic tests were performed to evaluate the mechanical and corrosion properties. The results provide an insight into the advantages and limitations of the laser welding process for joining high-manganese alloyed stainless steels. Conditions for the production of defect-free and corrosion-resistant welds having good mechanical properties could be determined. T2 - LTWMP '11 - 5th International conference "Laser technologies in welding and materials processing" CY - Crimea, Ukraine DA - 24.05.2011 PY - 2011 SP - 55 EP - 59 AN - OPUS4-25475 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Laser beam welding of austenitic manganese-alloyed stainless steels T2 - 10th Brazilian Stainless Steel Conference - Intern. Ed. - INOX 2010 T2 - 10th Brazilian Stainless Steel Conference - Intern. Ed. - INOX 2010 CY - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil DA - 2010-09-20 PY - 2010 AN - OPUS4-22743 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Laser beam weldability of austenitic and austenitic-ferritic high manganese stainless steel sheets T2 - 63rd Annual Assembly of the International Institute of Welding IIW T2 - 63rd Annual Assembly of the International Institute of Welding IIW CY - Istanbul, Turkey DA - 2010-07-11 PY - 2010 AN - OPUS4-22498 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Laser beam weldability of austenitic and austenitic-ferritic high-manganese stainless steel sheets T2 - 63rd IIW Annual Assembly and International Conference T2 - 63rd IIW Annual Assembly and International Conference CY - Istanbul, Turkey DA - 2010-07-12 KW - Manganese alloyed stainless steels KW - Laser beam welding KW - Weldability KW - Shielding gas KW - Weld metal KW - Corrosion resistance KW - Mechanical properties PY - 2010 IS - IIW Doc.-No. IV-1023-10 SP - 1 EP - 13 AN - OPUS4-22615 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Gebhardt, Moritz Oliver A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael ED - Cerjak, H. ED - Enzinger, N. T1 - Restraint effects on stresses and strains in single-run high power laser beam welding of thick plates T2 - Mathematical modelling of weld phenomena 9 KW - Laserstrahlschweißen KW - Heißrisse KW - Einspannung PY - 2010 SN - 978-3-85125-127-2 SP - 1011 EP - 1033 PB - Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz AN - OPUS4-23301 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Gebhardt, Moritz Oliver A1 - Gook, Sergej A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Hot cracking in high power laser beam welding of thick high strength structural steels under restraint conditions T2 - ICALEO 2010 - 29th International congress on applications of lasers & electro-optics (Proceedings) T2 - ICALEO 2010 - 29th International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics CY - Anaheim, CA, USA DA - 2010-09-26 KW - High power laser beam welding KW - Solidification crack KW - Hot crack KW - Instrumented restrained cracking test PY - 2010 SN - 978-0-912035-61-1 VL - 103 IS - Pub #613 / Paper 509 SP - 225 EP - 232 AN - OPUS4-22229 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Laser beam welding of austenitic manganese-alloyed stainless steels T2 - INOX 2010 - 10th Brazilian stainless steel conference (Proceedings) T2 - INOX 2010 - 10th Brazilian stainless steel conference CY - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil DA - 2010-09-20 PY - 2010 SP - 254 EP - 269 AN - OPUS4-22165 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Gebhardt, Moritz Oliver A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Hot crack susceptibility of laser and laser-hybrid welded joints T2 - VI. International conference "Beam technologies & laser application" T2 - VI. International conference "Beam technologies & laser application" CY - Saint Petersburg, Russia DA - 2009-09-23 PY - 2009 SP - 127 EP - 136 CY - Saint Petersburg, Russia AN - OPUS4-20941 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Quiroz Penaranda, Vanessa A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael A1 - Gebhardt, Moritz Oliver T1 - Einfluss der Einspannbedingungen auf die Heißrisssicherheit beim Laserstrahl- und Hybridschweißen T2 - 2. Rostocker Schweißtage Laser-MSG-Hybridschweißen-Erfahrungen und aktuelle Entwicklungen T2 - 2. Rostocker Schweißtage Laser-MSG-Hybridschweißen-Erfahrungen und aktuelle Entwicklungen CY - Rostock, Germany DA - 2009-11-03 PY - 2009 AN - OPUS4-20406 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -