TY - JOUR A1 - Steppan, Enrico A1 - Mente, Tobias A1 - Böllinghaus, Thomas T1 - Numerical investigations on cold cracking avoidance in fillet welds of high-strength steels N2 - Industry faces a growing demand for high-strength structural steels with yield strengths of up to 1,300 MPa in order to cope with increasingly higher strength requirements in engineering. Higher strength levels are achieved by a special coordinated production process and an adapted chemical composition. Nevertheless, disastrous damage cases with high-strength steels have occurred in the past. The sensitivity to mechanical property degradation by hydrogen increases dramatically with strength. This phenomenon leads to hydrogen-assisted cold cracking. T-joints with fillet welds made from one side with an included angle of 60° were examined for their cold cracking behavior. Based on the T-joint, a modified heat input, even interpass temperature, plate thickness, and length ones were examined. The diffusion behavior and the effectiveness of different post-weld heat treatments in joints were simulated. The results of post-weld heat treatments are illustrated in practical hydrogen removal heat treatment diagrams. It is noticed that the T-joint is subject to a very high risk of hydrogen-assisted cold cracking (HACC). Contrary to other joints, its most critical area for cracking is not the weld metal but the heat-affected zone surrounding area of the root pass. The simulation shows that HACC in the T-joint can only be avoided by applying a sufficient post-weld heat treatment. KW - High-strength structural steels KW - Hydrogen diffusion KW - Numerical simulation KW - Hydrogen-assisted cold cracking (HACC) KW - T joints KW - Fillet welds KW - Post-weld heat treatment KW - Hydrogen removal heat treatment diagramm (HRHT) PY - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s40194-013-0036-4 SN - 0043-2288 SN - 1878-6669 VL - 57 IS - 3 SP - 359 EP - 371 PB - Springer CY - Oxford AN - OPUS4-27952 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dabah, Eitan A1 - Kannengießer, Thomas A1 - Mente, Tobias A1 - Beyer, Katrin A1 - Brauser, Stephan T1 - Quantification of hydrogen effective diffusion coefficients and effusion behavior in duplex stainless steel weld metals N2 - Modern methods like carrier gas hot extraction enable the quantification of dissolved hydrogen as well as the determination of the hydrogen trapping and diffusion behavior. This method was applied in order to compare for the first time the hydrogen diffusion and trapping behavior in electrochemically charged and welded duplex stainless steel (1.4462). Characteristic extraction temperatures (400, 650, and 900 °C) were used to quantify the amounts of diffusible hydrogen and trapped hydrogen for the base material and the weld metal, and in order to calculate the effective diffusion coefficients corresponding to the specific temperature. The comparison of the charging methods showed that electrochemically charged samples have a higher content of diffusible hydrogen than the welded samples. In addition, the effusion times increase in welded samples, which indicate a higher amount of trapped hydrogen. In electrochemically charged weld samples, a significant lower concentration of hydrogen was determined than in the base material. In addition, the effective diffusion coefficients were calculated for every microstructure and charging method. It was found that the base material has a higher effective hydrogen diffusion coefficient than that of the weld metal. This effect is due to the tortuous path of hydrogen diffusion in the weld metal. KW - Carrier gas hot extraction KW - Diffusion KW - Effusion KW - Hydrogen KW - Trapping PY - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s40194-013-0051-5 SN - 0043-2288 SN - 1878-6669 VL - 57 IS - 4 SP - 561 EP - 567 PB - Springer CY - Oxford AN - OPUS4-29417 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -