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Effect of welding processes on the fatigue behaviour of ultra-high strength steel butt-welded joints

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ENGINEERING FRACTURE MECHANICS
卷 275, 期 -, 页码 -

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2022.108845

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Fatigue strength; Welded joints; Ultra-high strength steel; Fracture mechanics approach; Welding process

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  1. Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica Tecnologia, Argentina
  2. Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS)
  3. [0982]
  4. [P2-0137]

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This study analyzes the fatigue behavior of ultra-high strength steel butt-welded joints through experimental testing and fracture mechanics approach. Different welding techniques result in different fatigue strengths, and joint geometry alone cannot fully explain the differences. Microstructure and defect size play important roles in early crack growth.
In the last decades, advances in steel manufacturing made possible the use of high-strength steel (HSS) and ultra-high strength steel (UHSS) for several applications, such as bridges, cranes, offshore structures, oil pipelines and automotive parts. Capacity of withstanding loads with reduced cross-section and minimum weight could be efficiently increased. Since most structures need to be joined, welding procedures are a major issue in mechanical design of HSS elements. Particularly in construction codes and design documents, it is normally assumed that fatigue resistance of as-welded joints is independent of strength level. Nevertheless, fatigue loaded as -welded components with high quality welds or post-weld treated joints could experience bene-fits from the use of HSS as the base material (BM).The purpose of the present work is to analyse fatigue behaviour of ultra-high strength steel butt-welded joints, by means of experimental testing and a fracture mechanics approach. Sheets of steel S960MC and S960QL were joined with different welding techniques: Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW), Laser Hybrid Welding (LHW) and Electron Beam Welding (EBW). Fatigue tests were performed with stress ratio R = 0.1, under four points bending loading.All specimens exhibited fatigue crack initiation and subsequent propagation from the weld toe area, near the heat affected zone (HAZ). Different S-N curves were obtained for the different welding processes. The Resistance Curve methodology was employed to assess the effect of microstructure, defect size, hardness, and joint geometry resulting from each technique. This fracture mechanics approach allowed to estimate the relative influence of the different geomet-rical and mechanical parameters of the weld and showed that joint geometry could not explain by itself the differences in fatigue strength. It was observed that microstructure and the size of de-fects played an important role in early crack growth, and they can reduce the benign effect of a high-strength base material.

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