TY - JOUR A1 - Biegler, M. A1 - Wang, J. A1 - Kaiser, L. A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Automated Tool-Path Generation for Rapid Manufacturing of Additive Manufacturing Directed Energy Deposition Geometries JF - Steel research international N2 - In additive manufacturing (AM) directed energy deposition (DED), parts are built by welding layers of powder or wire feedstock onto a substrate with applications for steel powders in the fields of forging tools, spare parts, and structural components for various industries. For large and bulky parts, the choice of toolpaths influences the build rate, the mechanical performance, and the distortions in a highly geometry-dependent manner. With weld-path lengths in the range of hundreds of meters, a reliable, automated tool-path generation is essential for the usability of DED processes. This contribution presents automated tool-path generation approaches and discusses the results for arbitrary geometries. Socalled “zig-zag” and “contour-parallel” processing strategies are investigated and the tool-paths are automatically formatted into machine-readable g-code for experimental validation to build sample geometries. The results are discussed in regard to volume-fill, microstructure, and porosity in dependence of the path planning according to photographs and metallographic cross-sections. KW - Porosity KW - Path planning KW - Mechanical properties KW - Laser metal deposition KW - Additive manufacturing PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-510454 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/srin.202000017 VL - 91 IS - 11 SP - 2000017 PB - WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & co. KGaA CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-51045 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Böhne, Chr. A1 - Meschut, G. A1 - Biegler, M. A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Avoidance of liquid metal embrittlement during resistance spot welding by heat input dependent hold time adaption JF - Science and Technology of Welding and Joining N2 - Liquid metal embrittlement (LME) cracking can occur during resistance spot welding (RSW) in zinc-coated advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) for automotive production. In this study, a methodological variation of hold time is performed to investigate the process-related crack influence factors. A combination of numerical and experimental investigations confirms, that the extent of heat dissipation and re-heating of the sheet surface can be influenced and thus the degree of crack formation can be controlled in a targeted manner by the parameterisation of the hold time. The temperature and stress history of crack-free and crack-afflicted spot welds are analysed and a conclusion on the borders defining the LME active region is derived. KW - Liquid metal embrittlement KW - Crack KW - Advanced high-strength steels KW - Resistance spot welding KW - Hold time KW - Heat input KW - Simulation PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/13621718.2020.1795585 SN - 1362-1718 VL - 25 IS - 7 SP - 617 EP - 624 PB - Taylor Francis Online AN - OPUS4-51096 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - El-Sari, B. A1 - Biegler, M. A1 - Graf, B. A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Distortion-based validation of the heat treatment simulation of Directed Energy Deposition additive manufactured parts JF - ScienceDirect N2 - Directed energy deposition additive manufactured parts have steep stress gradients and an anisotropic microstructure caused by the rapid thermo-cycles and the layer-upon-layer manufacturing, hence heat treatment can be used to reduce the residual stresses and to restore the microstructure. The numerical simulation is a suitable tool to determine the parameters of the heat treatment process and to reduce the necessary application efforts. The heat treatment simulation calculates the distortion and residual stresses during the process. Validation experiments are necessary to verify the simulation results. This paper presents a 3D coupled thermo-mechanical model of the heat treatment of additive components. A distortion-based validation is conducted to verify the simulation results, using a C-ring shaped specimen geometry. Therefore, the C-ring samples were 3D scanned using a structured light 3D scanner to compare the distortion of the samples with different post-processing histories. KW - Directed Energy Deposition KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Heat Treatment KW - Numerical Simulation KW - Finite Element Method PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-513153 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2020.09.146 VL - 94 SP - 362 EP - 366 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-51315 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brunner-Schwer, C. A1 - Graf, B. A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Entwicklung des hybriden Auftragschweißens als leistungsfähigen Bechichtungsprozess für Korrosions- und Verschleißschutzschichten JF - Schweißen und Schneiden N2 - Dieser Beitrag stellt Ergebnisse der Untersuchungen zum Auftragschweißen als Plasma-Laserstrahl-Hybrid-Prozess dar. Es hat sich gezeigt, dass ein Laserstrahl, der in einer gemeinsamen Prozesszone mit einem Plasma-Pulver-Auftragschweißprozess vorlaufend angeordnet ist, diesem Prozess eine erhebliche Geschwindigkeitssteigerung sowie eine Verbesserung der Stabilität ermöglicht. Der Hybrid-Prozess konnte mit Verschleißschutzwerkstoffen sowie dem Korrosionsschutzwerkstoff Inconel 625 bei Vorschubgeschwindigkeiten von bis zu 10 m/min erfolgreich validiert werden. Im Hinblick auf die aktuellen Entwicklungen zu Hochgeschwindiglceits-Laserstrahlauftragschweißen kann der Plasma-Laserstrahl-Hybrid-Prozess zwischen diesen und den konventionellen Verfahren eingeordnet werden. KW - Auftragschweißen KW - Hybridschweißen KW - Laserstrahlschweißen KW - Schutzgasschweißen PY - 2020 SN - 0036-7184 VL - 72 IS - 8 SP - 474 EP - 475 AN - OPUS4-51321 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bakir, Nasim A1 - Üstündag, Ömer A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Experimental and numerical study on the influence of the laser hybrid parameters in partial penetration welding on the solidification cracking in the weld root JF - Welding in the World N2 - In this study, the influence of the welding speed, the arc power, and the laser focal position on the solidification crack formation for partial penetration laser hybrid–welded thick-walled plates was investigated. The solidification cracking in the weld root is a result of interaction between metallurgical and geometrical and thermomechanical factors. Experimentally, a direct correlation between the welding speed and the crack number was observed. That is by reducing the welding velocity, the crack number was decreased. The focal position shows also a significant influence on the crack number. By focusing the laser on the specimen surface, the crack number has been significantly diminished. The wire feed speed showed a very slight influence on the crack formation. That is due to the large distance between the critical region for cracking and the arc region. The numerical model shows a high stress concentration in the weld root for both components (vertical and transversal). Numerically, the reduced welding speed showed a strong impact on stress, as the model demonstrated a lower stress amount by decreasing the welding speed. The metallurgical factors, such as the assumed accumulation of the low-melting eutectics in the weld root, should be a contribution for solidification cracking, where the tensile stress is acting. KW - Laser hybrid welding KW - Solidification cracking KW - Partial penetration welding KW - Weld root KW - Numerical simulation PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s40194-020-00847-w VL - 64 SP - 501 EP - 511 PB - Springer AN - OPUS4-50625 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schaumann, P. A1 - Schürmann, K. A1 - Pittner, Andreas A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Experimental investigations on the fatigue resistance of automatically welded tubular X-joints for jacket support structures JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series N2 - The development within the offshore wind sector towards more powerful turbines combined with increasing water depth for new wind parks is challenging both the designer as well as the manufacturer of bottom fixed support structures. Besides XL-monopiles, the market developed an innovative and economic jacket support structure which is based on automatically manufactured tubular joints combined with standardized pipes. Besides the improvements for a serial manufacturing process the automatically welded tubular joints show a great potential in terms of fatigue resistance e.g. due to a smooth weld geometry without sharp notches. However, these benefits are not considered yet within the fatigue design process of automatically manufactured jacket substructures according to current standards due to the lack of suitable S-N curves. Therefore, 32 axial fatigue tests on single and double-sided automatically welded tubular X-joints have been performed to determine a new hot spot stress related S-N curve. Based on these constant amplitude fatigue tests a new S-N curve equal to a FAT 126 curve was computed which implicitly includes the benefits of the automatically welding procedure. T2 - EERA Deep Wind 2020 CY - Trondheim, Norway DA - 15.01.2020 KW - Notch stress approach KW - Fatigue tests KW - Automated manufacturing KW - Tubular X-joints KW - Structural stress approach PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-518509 DO - https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1669/1/012022 VL - 1669 SP - 012022 PB - IOP Publishing Ltd AN - OPUS4-51850 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Biegler, M. A1 - Elsner, B. A1 - Graf, B. A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Geometric distortion-compensation via transient numerical simulation for directed energy deposition additive manufacturing JF - Sience and Technology of Welding and Joining N2 - Components distort during directed energy deposition (DED) additive manufacturing (AM) due to the repeated localised heating. Changing the geometry in such a way that distortion causes it to assume the desired shape – a technique called distortion-compensation – is a promising method to reach geometrically accurate parts. Transient numerical simulation can be used to generate the compensated geometries and severely reduce the amount of necessary experimental trials. This publication demonstrates the simulation-based generation of a distortioncompensated DED build for an industrial-scale component. A transient thermo-mechanical approach is extended for large parts and the accuracy is demonstrated against 3d-scans. The calculated distortions are inverted to derive the compensated geometry and the distortions after a single compensation iteration are reduced by over 65%. KW - DED KW - Welding simulation KW - Dimensional accuracy KW - Additive manufacturing KW - Laser metal deposition KW - LMD PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/13621718.2020.1743927 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - Taylor & Francis AN - OPUS4-50877 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Üstündag, Ö. A1 - Gook, S. A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Hybrid laser arc welding of thick high-strength piepline steels of grade X120 with adapted heat input JF - Journal of Materials Processing Tech. N2 - The influence of heat input and welding speed on the microstructure and mechanical properties of single-pass hybrid laser arc welded 20mm thick plates of high-strength pipeline steel X120 were presented. The heat Input was varied in the range of 1.4 kJ mm−1 to 2.9 kJ mm−1, while the welding speed was changed between 0.5m min−1 and 1.5m min−1. A novel technique of bath support based on external oscillating electromagnetic field was used to compensate the hydrostatic pressure at low welding velocities. A major advantage of this technology is, that the welding speed and thus the cooling time t8/5 can be variated in a wide parameter window without issues regarding the weld root quality. The recommended welding thermal cycles for the pipeline steel X120 can be met by that way. All tested Charpy-V specimens meet the requirements of API 5 L regarding the impact energy. For higher heat inputs the average impact energy was 144 ± 37 J at a testing temperature of −40 °C. High heat Input above 1.6 kJ mm−1 leads to softening in the weld metal and heat-affected-zone resulting in loss of strength. The minimum tensile strength of 915 MPa could be achieved at heat inputs between 1.4 kJ mm−1 and 1.6 kJ mm−1. KW - High-strength low-alloy steel KW - Hybrid laser-arc welding KW - Mechanical-technological properties KW - Microstructure KW - Toughness KW - Pipeline steel of grade X120 PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2019.116358 SN - 0924-0136 VL - 275 SP - 116358 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-50008 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Üstündag, Ömer A1 - Gook, S. A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Hybrid laser-arc welding of thick-walled pipe segments with optimization of the end crater JF - Procedia CIRP N2 - The study deals with the application of the high-power hybrid-laser arc welding process on up to 15 mm thick pipe segments with the intention to avoid end crater imperfections during closing of the circumferential welds, where the pipes were turned during welding in 1G- and 2Gpositions. Different techniques such as laser power ramp-down, abrupt switch-off of the laser power and change of the magnification of the laser spot diameter and defocusing of the laser beam relative to the workpiece were tested to remove the laser energy from the process. It could be shown that a high defocusing of the optic system above 40 mm with a resulting beam diameter > 2.9 mm in a short overlap length of approx. 20 mm leads to the formation of a cup-shaped weld seam, which is preferred for avoidance of cracks and pores in the end crater. A laser optics with motor-driven lens system was used for the welding experiments to defocuse the laser beam without changing the position of the arc. KW - Hybrid laser-arc welding KW - Circumferential weld KW - Thick-walled steel KW - Single-pass welding KW - End crater PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-513260 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2020.09.106 VL - 94 SP - 676 EP - 679 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-51326 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bakir, Nasim A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Pavlov, V. A1 - Volvenko, S. A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - In situ determination of the critical straining condition for solidification cracking during laser beam welding JF - Procedia CIRP N2 - A self-restraint hot cracking test (free edge test) was used in combination with a novel optical measurement technique to determine the critical straining conditions for solidification cracking for the stainless steel grade 1.4828 (AISI 309). The Lucas-Kanade algorithm for the optical flow (OF) calculation was implemented to obtain the full-field displacement and then the full-field strain. The use of external laser illumination with appropriate filters allows to obtain good image quality with good contrast. The critical straining conditions required for solidification cracking can be obtained by means the proposed technique in the immediate vicinity of the solidification front. A very good repeatability was demonstrated for the used measurement technique. The critical straining conditions for solidification cracking for the tested steel und under this welding conditions has been detected KW - Laser beam welding KW - Solidification cracking KW - Critical strain KW - Critical strain rate KW - Optical flow PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-513070 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2020.09.104 SN - 2212-8271 VL - 94 SP - 666 EP - 670 PB - Elsevier AN - OPUS4-51307 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -