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Beside quenched and tempered (QT) high strength steels advanced technologies in steel manufacturing provide steels produced by the thermo-mechanical controlled process (TMCP) with yield strength of 960 MPa. These steels differ in the carbon and micro-alloying element content. With variation of heat control TIG-welded dummy seams on both steel types were performed. Analyses concerning microstructure and residual stress evolution due to welding showed typical stress distributions according to common concepts. Yet, the TMCP-steel shows higher residual stresses than the QT-steel.
We investigated hydrogen embrittlement and blistering in electrochemically hydrogen-charged technical iron samples at room temperature. Hydrogen-stimulated cracks and blisters and the corresponding hydrogen distributions were observed by neutron tomography. Cold neutrons were provided by the research reactor BER II to picture the sample with a spatial resolution in the reconstructed three-dimensional model of ~25 µm. We made the unique observation that cracks were filled with molecular hydrogen and that cracks were surrounded by a 50 µm wide zone with a high hydrogen concentration. The zone contains up to ten times more hydrogen than the bulk material. The hydrogen enriched zone can be ascribed to a region of increased local defect density. Hydrogen also accumulated at the sample surface having the highest concentration at blistered areas. The surfaces of the brittle fractured cracks showed micropores visualized by scanning electron microscopy. The micropores were located at grain boundaries and were surrounded by stress fields detected by electron backscattered diffraction. The cracks clearly originated from the micropores.
TRIP-steels offer a good combination between strength and ductility. Therefore TRIP-steels are widely used in the automobile industries. The aim of this work is to study the stability of involved phases during heating and to identify the kinetics of the occuring phase transformations. For that purpose, in-situ diffraction measurements, using high energy synchrotron radiation were conducted. The analysis revealed the decomposition of the metastable austenitic phase into carbide and ferrite along the heating process and the regeneration of the austenite by further heating of the sample.
Controlling the level of mostly detrimental residual stresses already during the welding process would be highly attractive as time and cost consuming post processing may be prevented. Innovative Low Transformation Temperature (LTT-) filler materials are specially designed for Controlling weld residual stresses by means of adjusted martensite formation already during welding. Numerous publications can be found on this issue, but they provide only little insight into the interaction between martensite formation and resulting welding residual stresses. Within this study a component weld test was performed in a special large-scale testing facility. In-situ load analysis revealed that the amount of stress reduction during deposition of the individual weld runs is dependent on the weld volume undergoing phase transformation related to the shrinking volume. The residual stresses found alter welding show that the desired residual stress control by using LTT alloys is sensitive to welding boundary conditions (i. e. weld geometry, plate thickness) and to be evaluated separately for varying weld scenarios.
Welding residual stress is of major concern for structural integrity assessment in industrial components. Shear and volume strains resulting from the austenite-martensite-transformation affect the development of residual stress during welding. Controlling the phase transformation allows adjustment of the welding residual stress. Low transformation temperature (LTT) weld filler materials exhibiting reduced MS-temperatures allow postponing the phase transformation. The associated strain arising from the delayed transformation compensates for the thermal contraction strains and as such may reduce tensile or even introduce compressive residual stress. In this article we discuss the tri-axial residual stress distribution in 15 mm S690Q steel plates joined with LTT filler materials with 10 wt% Cr and a Ni-content that varies from 8 to 12 wt%. Using complementary synchrotron X-ray and neutron diffraction stress analysis the macroscopic residual stress was derived from the phase specific lattice strain and phase fraction of martensite and retained austenite, respectively. The local phase specific unstrained lattice parameters were determined using stress relieved combs. The investigation revealed increasing phase fraction of retained austenite with increasing Ni-content. Further, independent of the Ni-content in each weld in the fusion zone, significant compressive residual stresses were found in the longitudinal direction, which are balanced by tensile residual stresses in the heat affected zone (HAZ). In the weld transverse and normal direction the stress distribution is qualitatively similar but less in magnitude. The increased amount of retained austenite reduces the compressive stress arising from shear and volume strains during the delayed phase transformation and therefore no significant increase in compression was observed for decreasing MS-temperatures.
Residual stress engineering in welding becomes more and more prominent as the use of tailored materials, e.g., high-strength steels, calls for maximum utilization of the material properties. As a consequence, residual stresses have to be considered as design criterion. Moreover, it may be utilized to improve the material's performance. Low transformation temperature alloys are a smart approach to control the residual stresses already during the welding process avoiding time-consuming postweld treatments. This paper gives an overview about the progress made in research in this topic with special focus on residual stresses. Basics as well as important developments will be addressed.
For a newly developed 10% Cr and 10% Ni low transformation temperature (LTT) weld filler material, the local phase transformation kinetics and the strain evolution during gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) under real welding conditions was studied. An experimental set-up and a measuring and evaluation strategy are presented to gain a real time insight into the welding process. The experiments were carried out at the beam line ID15@ESRF using a two detector EDXRD (energy dispersive X-ray diffraction) set-up and high energy synchrotron X-rays. The time-resolved diffraction analysis during welding was carried out locally throughout the weld in longitudinal as well as in transverse direction to the weld line to examine the interdependence of the strain state and the transformation kinetics. This comprehension is crucial for the optimization of the weld process, and thus for the tailoring of the resulting residual stress states, which is one of the main issues for the application of LTT alloys. Using the herein proposed approach EDXRD diffraction pattern can be monitored during real welding with a counting rate of 5 Hz. By means of the time resolved diffraction data the local transformation temperatures and times were determined and the local phasespecific strain evolutions are discussed with respect to the transformation rates and the time-delayed phase transformations.
Today’s light weight design trends lead to a growing application of high-strength structural steels (yield strength ≥ 690 MPa). The mechanical properties of the weld and the component safety have to meet the increased requirements of these steel grades. However, high residual stresses in welded components are detrimental to their safety and integrity. Analyses concerning weld stresses in high-strength steels welded under component related restraint conditions revealed that heat control significantly affects global and local stresses. This occurs especially in highly restrained joints due to superimposing local and global stresses and may cause crack-critical stress-levels. In this study weld tests were performed with plates of high-strength steel in a special test facility. The experimental setup allowed transferring defined restraint conditions to the test welds similarly to real components. Temperature and reaction forces due to restraint were observed online while welding and cooling of multilayer-component MAG-welds. Mobile X-ray diffraction was used for local stress determination in the weld seam areas of the restrained specimens. It was found that interpass temperature has a major influence on the local and global welding forces and stresses. Thus, among the analysed results especially transverse residual stresses of the heat affected zone were strongly affected.
Große Materialstärken und komplexe Strukturen bewirken eine erhebliche Schrumpfbehinderung der Schweißnaht.
Die aus dem Schweißprozess resultierenden multiaxialen Belastungen tragen maßgeblich zur Gesamteigenbeanspruchung einer Schweißkonstruktion bei und lassen sich nur unter realen Fertigungsbedingungen analysieren.
Zur wirklichkeitsnahen Simulation der komplexen Steifigkeitsverhältnisse realer Bauteile wurden hierzu in einer speziellen 3D-Prüfanlage UP-Mehrlagenschweißungen am warmfesten Stahl 13CrMoV9-10 durchgeführt. Während der schweißtechnischen Fertigung sowie der Abkühlung auf Raumtemperatur wurden die Proben an der freien Ausdehnung und Schrumpfung gehindert. Der Einfluss der Wärmeführung, d.h. Streckenenergie (E) und Vorwärm-/Zwischenlagentemperatur (T(Pli>), auf die resultierende Bauteilbeanspruchung wurde durch in-situ Messungen der Reaktionskräfte (Fy) und Biegemomente (Mx) während des Schweißens und der anschließenden Wasserstoffarmglühung untersucht. Sowohl die Reaktionskräfte als auch die Biegemomente steigen mit zunehmender Vorwärmtemperatur an und somit erhöht sich die Beanspruchung des Wurzelbereiches. Während die Vorwärm-/Zwischenlagentemperatur einen signifikanten Einfluss auf die resultierenden Reaktionskräfte hat, ist der Einfluss auf die Biegemomente nach Abkühlung auf Raumtemperatur vernachlässigbar. Eine Erhöhung der Streckenenergie wirkt sich nur geringfügig auf die Höhe der Endreaktionskraft aus, beeinflusst aber signifikant das resultierende Biegemoment nach erfolgter Abkühlung auf Raumtemperatur.
Die experimentelle Spannungsanalyse dient einerseits zur Ermittlung von Materialeigenschaften, andererseits erlangt sie gerade für die wirtschaftliche Auslegung und die Integrität von geschweißten Komponenten zunehmend an Bedeutung.
Da die Höhe und Veränderung von Bauteilbeanspruchungen und deren Auswirkung auf die Sicherheit von einer Vielzahl und sich überlagernder werkstofflicher, mechanischer und thermischer Einflussfaktoren (Steifigkeitsverhältnisse, Fertigungsprozesse, Lastwechsel) abhängt, sind fertigungs- bzw. betriebsbegleitende Messungen von mechanisch und thermisch bedingten Dehnungen und daraus ermittelten Spannungen oftmals unumgänglich.
In geschweißten Komponenten sind oft komplexe Spannungs- bzw. Eigenspannungsverteilungen in den verschiedenen Raumrichtungen vorhanden. In Abhängigkeit vom anzusetzenden Tragfähigkeitsnachweis bzw. Berechnungskonzept des Tragwerkes sind sowohl experimentelle Methoden mit hoher Ortsauflösung (lokale Messungen) als auch mehrdimensionale Analysen über weite Bereiche des Bauteils (globale Messungen) von Dehnungen und Spannungen notwendig.