TY - CONF A1 - Rhode, Michael A1 - Schröpfer, Dirk A1 - Kromm, Arne A1 - Kannengießer, Thomas T1 - Adaption of Heat Control Concepts for Welding Stress Optimization in High-strength Steel Components N2 - High-strength structural steels from 690 MPa are increasingly applied at present. Major reasons are lightweight design trends and potential cost reductions. The structural design of welds and their manufacturing become more challenging with increasing material strength. By reasons of a higher yield ratio of these steels, the development of high residual stresses has to be avoided, since they are detrimental to the components safety and performance. Local restraint stresses and welding loads due to external shrinkage restraints occur. Frequently, this leads to critical tensile residual stresses in the weld and HAZ. In this study, influences of welding process parameters and restraint conditions on the residual stress state in welded components of high-strength steels were investigated. Multilayer GMAW tests under free shrinkage and experiments under well-defined restraints in special in-house developed testing facilities were accomplished. The tests permitted analyses of the resulting local residual stresses measured by means of X-ray diffraction and global reaction stress build-up while welding and cooling. Significant effects were found for heat control, seam configuration and restraint condition. Besides high restraints, elevated preheating and interpass temperatures lead to increased welding stresses. An adaption of welding parameters considering heat control, weld run sequence and seam configuration proved to be beneficial. T2 - 10th Conference on Trends in Welding Research CY - Tokyo, Japan DA - 11.10.2016 KW - Weld heat input KW - Residual Stress KW - High-strength Steel KW - Welding KW - Component Test PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37828 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Pasternak, H. A1 - Launert, B. A1 - Rhode, Michael A1 - Kannengießer, Thomas ED - Zingoni, A. T1 - Residual Stresses and Imperfections in Welded High-strength I-shape Sections T2 - Insights and Innovations in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation N2 - This article addresses the imperfections caused by the weld assembly in I-shape sections made of two structural steel grades. Load influencing imperfections are assumed as deviations from the ideal shape (e.g. bending distortion) and longitudinal residual stresses. The quality of a numerically aided design of components exposed to either compression and/or bending is significantly affected, depending on these parameters. The Eurocode (EC3) provides robust simplified models. As a result, the Ultimate Limit State (ULS) is approached on a conservative basis. The following investigations are aimed at providing further guidance on these values in component-like specimens. The long term goal is an improved understanding of the load-bearing capacity of such sections. As a first step in this process, the experimental and corresponding numerical studies are presented. T2 - 6th International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation (SEMC 2016) CY - Cape Town, South Africa DA - 05.09.2016 KW - Residual Stresses KW - Welding KW - High-strength Steel KW - Numerical Modeling KW - Component PY - 2016 SN - 978-1-138-02927-9 VL - 2016 SP - 1139 EP - 1146 PB - CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Boca Raton, FL, USA AN - OPUS4-37888 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -