Study the Effect of Welding Joint Location on the Fatigue Strength and Fatigue Life for Steel Weldment

1 ATE-80212044©Asian-Transactions September 2012 Study the Effect of Welding Joint Location on the Fatigue Strength and Fatigue Life for Steel Weldment Dr.Ali Sadiq Yasir Kufa University / Faculty of Engineering Mechanical Engineering Department IRAQ E-mail:[email protected] / [email protected] Abstract: The welding process is one of the oldest joining processes between the materials, this paper try to find the effect of welding joint location in the steel on the fatigue strength of steel. The welding process done by electrical arc welding to joining steel samples at different locations at (X/L=0.25, X/L=0.5, and X/L=0.75), where (X) the location of welding zone centre and sample subjected to fully reversed bending stress, then comparing the fatigue test results with un-welded sample. The experimental results show that the welding joint decrease the tensile strength of steel and the fatigue failure strength also decreased specially for that with (X/L=0.5 and X/L=0.75) and failure occur at welding zone, but the sample with (X/L=0.25) had less effected by welding joint and the failure occur at the support not at welding zone. The results show fatigue life affected by the welding joint when draw (S-N) diagram for each sample especially for sample with (X/L=0.5 and X/L=0.75).