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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY-JMR&T
Volume 15, Issue -, Pages 199-212Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmrt.2021.07.154
Keywords
316L austenitic stainless steel; Mechanical properties; Phase equilibria; Fracture mode; Gas tungsten arc welding; Continuous and pulsed current
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This study investigated the effect of continuous and pulsed current in gas tungsten arc welding on the properties of AISI 316L stainless steel joints. The change in welding current mode was found to affect the grain morphology and size in the weld metal, thereby impacting the hardness and fracture toughness of the joints. The results showed that both joints experienced a completely ductile fracture and the welding current mode influenced the microstructure and mechanical properties of the joints.
In this paper, the effect of continuous and pulsed current in the gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) on the various properties of an AISI 316L stainless steel joints was investigated. 316L austenitic stainless steel sheets with a thickness of 10 mm were used together with ER309L filler. The sheets were welded together by the GTAW technique in two modes of continuous and pulsed currents. Microstructural characterization and phase equilibria were done using optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) equipped with electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) detector, techniques. Charpy impact, uniaxial tensile, and microhardness tests were used to investigate the effect of the type of the welding current on mechanical properties of the joints. The fracture surfaces were evaluated by FE-SEM after tensile and Charpy impact tests. Results showed that the weld metal (WM) microstructure is austenitic-ferritic (AF). It was also consisted of columnar and coaxial structures, in a way that varying the welding current from continuous to the pulsed mode changed the morphology of the grains from elongated columnar to a fine coaxial morphology. In addition, such a change in the welding current reduced the size of the grains in the WM, and the width of the unmixed zone (UMZ) as well. XRD analysis showed that the predominant phase and the preferred crystal plane of the WM are austenite, and (111), respectively. Both joints were broken from the base metal (BM) during the tensile test. Also, the above change of the welding current mode increased hardness and fracture toughness of the WM. Finally, fractography of the joints indicated that both joints experienced a completely ductile fracture.
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