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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.
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.
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.
Short Term Metallurgy and Hot Cracking During Laser Beam Welding of Austenitic Stainless Steels
(2011)
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.