TY - CONF A1 - Schwenk, C. A1 - Kannengießer, Thomas A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Restraint conditions and welding resiudal stresses in self-restrained cold cracking test N2 - In the last decade, high-strength fine grained steels and welding consumables have gained a strong raise of application ranging from mobile cranes to bridge constructions. However, the cracking susceptibility of these steels increases significantly in correspondence with the achieved improvements in yield strength and the loss in plastic deformation reserves. In order to determine this behavior a series of different standardized cold cracking tests has been developed. One remaining major problem of these tests is the uncertainty about the quantitative intensity of the restraint conditions as well as the corresponding welding residual stresses. Consequently, the comparison of different tests and welding conditions as well as the transferability of the results onto real parts is difficult at best. The main topic of this paper is the analysis of the restraint conditions and their link with the welding induced residual stresses. The importance of the given standardized selfrestrained tests and first results about the transferability of results onto real parts are discussed. The influence of the test specimen geometry on the restraint conditions of the test is investigated for a selected test with numerical Simulation using commercial FEA software. Additionally, the residual stresses caused by the welding process are measured and linked with the restraint conditions which are defined mainly by the geometry parameters. Finally the transferability of the selected cold cracking test results is validated experimentally. The test results of a multilayer weld on high-strength fine grained steel of real size weldments are investigated. For these experiments a 16 MN large scale testing facility is used which is capable of applying the high reaction forces and clamping conditions found at large scale demonstrator parts. The results show the importance of the quantitative knowledge of the restraint conditions and the welding residual stresses on the cold cracking resistance. T2 - 8th International Conference on Trends in Welding Research CY - Pine Mountain, USA DA - 01.06.2008 KW - Cold Cracking Test KW - Intensity of Restraint PY - 2008 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1361/cp2008twr766 SP - 766 EP - 771 PB - ASM international AN - OPUS4-47623 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Bakir, Nasim A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Investigation of solidification cracking susceptibility of laser welded joints of austenitic stainless steels N2 - Laser welding is a widely established manufacturing process in many industry sectors. Solidification cracking represents one of the most inadequately solved problems in welding and has major economic implications. The avoidance of hot crack forms for most fusion welding processes poses a key challenge for an important range of metallic construction materials and affects not only the manufacturers of welding equipment and material manufacturers, but also a large number of customers using welding technologies, as well as welding technical standardization and research. Solidification cracking susceptibility was examined with the help of the Controlled Tensile Weldability Test (CTW) developed by Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin. The test is based on the fact that hot crack formation depends on a critical strain that emerges within a critical temperature range, the so called brittle temperature range (BTR). Using this test and defined investigation programme a centreline solidification crack was generated. By controlling the applied strain during the laser beam welding process, it was possible to determine the critical strain and strain rate that led to solidification cracking formation. The hot cracking susceptibility of the tested stainless steels was qualified and quantified. The results demonstrate that the crack length increases with increasing applied strain. Furthermore, the strain rate has a significant influence on the formation of the solidification crack. T2 - 3rd International conference in Africa and Asia CY - Luxor, Egypt DA - 02.11.2015 KW - Laser beam welding KW - Hot cracking KW - Solidification cracking KW - Hot cracking test PY - 2015 SP - A-29, 1 EP - A-29, 9 AN - OPUS4-36522 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Bakir, Nasim A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Investigation of hot crack susceptibility of laser welded joints of four austenitic steels N2 - Laser welding is a widely established manufacturing process in many industry sectors. Solidification cracking represents one of the most inadequately solved problems in welding and has major economic implications. The avoidance of hot crack is for most fusion welding processes a key challenge for an important range of metallic construction materials and affects not only the manufacturers of welding equipment and material manufacturers, but also a large number of customers using welding technologies, as well as welding standardization and research. In this study a new investigation programme has been developed to qualify the hot cracking susceptibility of a variety of austenitic stainless steels. The results show the possibility of using this technique to determinate the critical values that occur with initiation of solidification cracking during laser beam welding T2 - The METEC and 2nd European Steel Technology and Application Days CY - Düsseldorf, Germany DA - 15.06.2015 KW - Laser beam welding KW - Hot cracking KW - Solidification cracking KW - Hot cracking test PY - 2015 SP - 1 EP - 5 AN - OPUS4-36525 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Na, S.-J. A1 - Han, S.-W. A1 - Muhammad, S. A1 - Zhang, L. A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael A1 - Karhu, M. A1 - Kujanpa, V. T1 - Flow and Bead Formation Characteristics in High Power Laser Welding at Different Welding Positions (Invited Talk) N2 - The numerical simulations of high power laser keyhole welding at different welding positions are performed by using Volume-Of-Fluid (VOF) method. The main material is SS400. The multi-physics phenomenon is considered using several models, such as the heat flux of Gaussian heat source, the recoil pressure with Clausisus-Clapeyron equation, the Marangoni flow considering temperature gradient, the buoyancy force with Boussinesq approximation, the additional shear stress and heat source due to metallic vapor ejected through keyhole entrance, the bubble formation assumed as adiabatic bubble, and the multiple-reflection by solving proper discriminant, are used. To analyze the fluid flow pattern, the concept of streamline formed by reconstructing the value of the velocity vector is applied. Partial and full penetration cases at different welding positions are considered. The welding position seems to have only a minor influence on bead formation characteristics in both cases. This is probably due to the fact that the recoil pressure has a major influence when compared to other driving forces. The flow characteristics and fluid velocity in weld pool are analyzed to compare the gravity direction effect at different welding positions. It is observed that the clockwise flow pattern is mainly formed by the recoil pressure on the keyhole surface in the case of partial penetration. The laser energy can't maintain the whole weld pool when the weld pool size becomes too large. And then the solidification starts from the middle part of weld pool and a necked weld pool shape is formed. In the full penetration welding, the weld pool flow patterns are affected by the leakage of laser power through the full penetration keyhole and also by surface tension. Furthermore, the numerical simulation of full penetration welding with AISI316L is also performed to analyze the effect of material properties. The weld bead shapes obtained by simulations were compared with the corresponding experimental results to confirm the validity of the process models adopted and the CFD simulation tool. T2 - Lasers in Manufacturing Conference 2015 CY - München, Germany DA - 22.06.2015 KW - Macro Processing (Joining, Welding) KW - Weld pool KW - Flow pattern KW - Different welding position KW - Numerical simulation KW - High power laser keyhole welding PY - 2015 SP - 1 EP - 6 AN - OPUS4-37163 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Petrat, Torsten A1 - Graf, B. A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Build-up strategies for generating components of cylindrical shape with laser metal deposition N2 - Laser Metal Deposition LMD) as additive manufacturing process offers the potential to produce near net shape components. This reduces the amount of material and post-processing. The components are composed of individual layers. Already mall irregularities within a layer can add up over multiple layers and lead to error propagation. This paper deals with the issue of build-up strategies to minimize irregularities and prevent error propagation. Different travel paths and the influence of a changing starting point regarding to error propagation are discussed. Different deposition rates between core and peripheral area are detected and successfully compensated by adjusting the build-up sequence. Stainless steel and titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V are used in the experiments. The results are intended to illustrate the potential of an adjusted build-up strategy and provide basic information on the way to an automated deposition process. This paper is of interest for engineers in industry or science using LMD as additive manufacturing process. T2 - Lasers in Manufacturing Conference 2015 CY - Munich, Germany DA - 22.06.2015 KW - Ti - 6Al - 4V KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Build - up Strategy KW - Laser Metal Deposition KW - Stainless Steel PY - 2015 UR - http://www.wlt.de/lim/Proceedings/Stick/sessions.html SP - 1 EP - 6 AN - OPUS4-37829 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Bakir, Nasim A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Experimental study and numerical simulation of hot crack formation for novel laser weldability test. N2 - Laser beam welding is a widely established manufacturing process in several industries. The solidification cracking seriously effecting the safety of welded joints could arise during the beam welding of stainless steels caused by high solidification rates. In this study the controlled tensile weldability test (CTW) was used to investigate the solidification cracking susceptibility the fully austenitic stainless steels CrMnNi (1.4376), CrNi (1.4301), CrNiMo (1.4404) and CrNiSi (1.4828) during laser beam welding. The test facility allows welding of specimens with simultaneous application of tensile load along or cross to the welding direction while the speed of tensile force application is either constant or increases linearly. The tensile force increment and/or the displacement are set by means of a CNC controller. Trials were conducted by varying the ultimate tensile strain and cross-head speed while keeping the welding parameters constant. By observing the crack-no crack behaviour and estimating the generated crack length for each trail using a new optimized experimental procedure the influence of the two important conditions (the strain and the strain rate) for the formation of solidification cracks can be investigated, the critical values of strain and strain rate that are responsible for solidification cracking formation have been determined. In the present study a three-dimensional FEM using the contact element technique was developed to simulate the solidification cracking during laser full penetration welding under external load conditions for the steel 1.4376 in order to get a better understanding of the mechanisms of hot crack initiation and the theoretical results were compared to the experimental ones. By comparing the resulting solidification crack with simulated crack, it is possible to determine the critical condition of solidification crack formation in the region where the strains and the strain rates cannot be measured due to the high temperature. The results show a good agreement between numerical calculation and experiment. It is proposed that the solidification cracking susceptibility may be predicted by FEM analysis by using the correct mechanical and thermo-physical constants of the materials. T2 - BEAM TECHNOLOGIES & LASER APPLICATION CY - St. Petersburg, Russia DA - 21.09.2015 KW - Solidification cracking KW - Hot cracking test KW - FEM KW - Laser beam welding PY - 2015 SN - 978-5-7422-5150-7 SP - 55 EP - 68 AN - OPUS4-36615 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gook, S. A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael ED - Schneider, G. ED - Zschech, E. ED - Petzow, G. T1 - Laserstrahl-MSG-Hybridschweißen von Rohren aus Hochfestem Stahl API-X80/ -X100 N2 - Das Laser-MSG-Hybridschweißverfahren führt bei untersuchten hochfesten Pipelinestählen API X80 und X120 reproduzierbar zu Schweißverbindungen mit anforderungsgerechten Zähigkeitseigenschaften. Eine metallurgische Beeinflussung der Schweißnahtzähigkeit ist durch eine gezielte Auswahl des Zusatzwerkstoffes möglich, wobei die maximale Eindringtiefe des Zusatzwerkstoffes in die Tiefe der Laserhybridnaht zu beachten ist. Die maximal erzielbare Eindringtiefe des Zusatzwerkstoffes ist auf ca. 14 mm begrenzt. Die eingesetzte Art des MSG-Lichtbogens hatte keinen erkennbaren Einfluss auf die Aufmischung im Laseranteil der Laserhybridnaht. Die besseren Ergebnisse der Kerbschlagzähigkeit konnten mit Metallpulverdrähten erreicht werden. Mit den erzielten gemittelten Werten der Schlagarbeit: ca. 200 J bei -60°C für X80 und ca. 53 J bei -40°C für X120 werden Anforderungen der Norm API 5L und DIN EN 10208-2 für die beiden untersuchten Grundwerkstoffe erfüllt. T2 - 49. Metallographie-Tagung CY - Dresden, Germany DA - 16.09.2015 KW - Hochfester Stahl KW - Laserstrahl-MSG-Hybridschweißen PY - 2015 SN - 978-3-88355-410-5 VL - 47 SP - 139 EP - 144 PB - Inventum CY - Sankt Augstin AN - OPUS4-44419 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Avilov, Vjaceslav A1 - Fritzsche, André A1 - Bachmann, Marcel A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Full penetration laser beam welding of thick duplex steel plates with electromagnetic weld pool support N2 - Full penetration high power bead-on-plate laser beam welding tests of up to 20 mm thick 2205 duplex steel plates were performed in PA position. A contactless inductive electromagnetic (EM) weld pool support system was used to prevent gravity drop-out of the melt. Welding experiments with 15 mm thick plates were carried out using IPG fiber laser YLR 20000 and Yb:YAG thin disk laser TruDisk 16002. The laser power needed to achieve a full penetration was found to be 10.9 and 8.56kW for welding velocity of 1.0 and 0.5 m min(-1), respectively. Reference welds without weld pool support demonstrate excessive root sag. The optimal value of the alternating current (AC) power needed to completely compensate the sagging on the root side was found to be approximate to 1.6 kW for both values of the welding velocity. The same EM weld pool support system was used in welding tests with 20 mm thick plates. The laser beam power (TRUMPF Yb:YAG thin disk laser TruDisk 16002) needed to reach a full penetration for 0.5 m min(-1) was found to be 13.9 kW. Full penetration welding without EM weld pool support is not possible-the surface tension cannot stop the gravity drop-out of the melt. The AC power needed to completely compensate the gravity was found to be 2 kW. (C) 2016 Laser Institute of America T2 - ICALEO 2015 - 34th International congress on applications of lasers & electro-optics CY - Atlanta, GA, USA DA - 2015-10-18 KW - Electromagnetic weld pool support KW - Laser beam welding KW - Duplex stainless steel PY - 2015 SN - 978-1-940168-05-0 SP - 571 EP - 579 PB - Amer inst physics CY - Melville, NY, USA AN - OPUS4-35035 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Bachmann, Marcel A1 - Kunze, R. A1 - Avilov, Vjaceslav A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Finite element modelling of an AC electromagnetic weld pool support in full penetration laser beam welding of thick duplex stainless steel plates N2 - An electromagnetic weld pool support system for 20 mm thick duplex stainless steel AISI 2205 was investigated numerically and compared to experiments. In our former publications, it was shown how an AC magnetic field below the process zone directed perpendicular to the welding direction can induce vertically directed Lorentz forces. These can counteract the gravitational forces and allow for a suppression of material drop-out for austenitic stainless steels and aluminum alloys. In this investigation, we additionally adopted a steady-state complex magnetic permeability model for the consideration of the magnetic hysteresis behavior due to the ferritic characteristics of the material. The model was calibrated against the Jiles-Atherton model. The material model was also successfully tested against an experimental configuration before welding with a 30 mm diameter cylinder of austenitic stainless steel surrounded by duplex stainless steel. Thereby, the effects of the Curie temperature on the magnetic characteristics in the vicinity of the later welding zone were simulated. The welding process was modelled with a 3D turbulent steady-state model including heat transfer and fluid dynamics as well as the electromagnetic field equations. Main physical effects, the thermo-capillary (Marangoni) convection at the weld pool boundaries, the natural convection due to gravity as well as latent heat of solid–liquid phase transitions at the phase boundaries were accounted for in the model. The feedback of the electromagnetic forces on the weld pool was described in terms of the electromagneticinduced pressure. The FE software COMSOL Multiphysics 4.2 was used in this investigation. It is shown that the gravity drop-out associated with the welding of 20 mm thick duplex stainless steel plates due to the hydrostatic pressure can be prevented by the application of AC magnetic fields between around 70 mT and 90 mT. The corresponding oscillation frequencies were between 1 kHz and 10 kHz and the electromagnetic AC powers were between 1 kW and 2.3 kW. In the experiments, values of the electromagnetic AC power between 1.6 kW and 2.4 kW at oscillation frequencies between 1.2 kHz and 2.5 kHz were found to be optimal to avoid melt sagging or drop-out of melt in single pass fullpenetration laser beam welding of 15 mm and 20 mm thick AISI 2205. T2 - ICALEO 2015 - 34th International congress on applications of lasers & electro-optics CY - Atlanta, GA, USA DA - 2015-10-18 KW - Electromagnetic weld pool support KW - Laser beam welding KW - FE simulation KW - Duplex stainless steel PY - 2015 SN - 978-1-940168-05-0 SP - 650 EP - 659 AN - OPUS4-35036 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Petrat, T. A1 - Graf, B. A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Rethmeier, Michael ED - Schmidt, M. ED - Vollertsen, F. ED - Arnold, C. B. T1 - Laser metal deposition as repair technology for a gas turbine burner made of Inconel 718 N2 - Maintenance, repair and overhaul of components are of increasing interest for parts of high complexity and expensive manufacturing costs. In this paper a production process for laser metal deposition is presented, and used to repair a gas turbine burner of Inconel 718. Different parameters for defined track geometries were determined to attain a near net shape deposition with consistent build-up rate for changing wall thicknesses over the manufacturing process. Spot diameter, powder feed rate, welding velocity and laser power were changed as main parameters for a different track size. An optimal overlap rate for a constant layer height was used to calculate the best track size for a fitting layer width similar to the part dimension. Deviations in width and height over the whole build-up process were detected and customized build-up strategies for the 3D sequences were designed. The results show the possibility of a near net shape repair by using different track geometries with laser metal deposition. T2 - LANE - 9 International Conference on Photonic Technologies CY - Fürth, Germany DA - 19.09.2016 KW - Laser metal deposition KW - Inconel 718 KW - Additive manufacturing KW - Maintenance KW - Repair and overhaul PY - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-376723 UR - http://ac.els-cdn.com/S1875389216301857/1-s2.0-S1875389216301857-main.pdf?_tid=ed1d75de-84a2-11e6-af94-00000aab0f6c&acdnat=1474974777_4917d753cb3d316c4b000ba0760778b5 SN - 1875-3892 VL - 83 SP - 761 EP - 768 PB - Elservier AN - OPUS4-37672 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -