Shrink-fitting, a common bonding technique in metal assemblies, was used for mortise and tenon wood joints. The joints had considerable strength. Shrink-fitting yielded joint strengths comparable to those obtained by using several welded dowels. Increasing the number of welded dowels, however, produced joints of higher strength than those bonded just by shrink-fitting. Combining in the same joi...

The fatigue fracture of structural details subjected to cyclic loads mostly occurs at a critical cross section with stress concentration. The welded joint is particularly dangerous location because of sinergetic harmful effects of stress concentration, tensile residual stresses, deffects, microstructural heterogeneity. Because of these reasons many methods for improving the fatigue resistance o...

A finite element scheme for simulation of welding residual stresses is presented in this paper. Detailed thermal and residual stress analyses for butt-welded and socket-welded pipes are performed using ANSYS and ABAQUS. The calculated distribution of axial stress and hoop stress at welded joint are validated against experimental results. Furthermore, residual stress relaxation under high amplit...

The reliability of welded structure can be evaluated through welding residual stress analysis and fatigue strength assessment. In this study, welding residual stresses of multi-pass dissimilar material welded joint between alloy 617 and 12Cr steel were analyzed numerically and experimentally. Fatigue strength was then assessed in the air. Based on results of welding residual stress analysis and...

Conventional assessment of welded joint impact toughness, as defined in relevant standards for welding procedure qualification is based on testing of real specimens taken from base metal, weld metal, and heat affected zone. Here particularly, testing of heat affected zone may become unreliable, mainly due to the welded joint configuration and placement of initial notch. In addition, from genera...

Q690E high strength low alloy (HSLA) steel plays an important role in offshore structures. In addition, underwater local cavity welding (ULCW) technique was widely used to repair important offshore constructions. However, the high cooling rate of ULCW joints results in bad welding quality compared with underwater dry welding (UDW) joints. Q690E high strength low alloy steels were welded by mult...

Very often, in order to optimized welded constructions, some of their parts are made of heterogeneous steels. For example, microalloyed steels are in use for cars chassis making and high alloyed steels for different constructions making. From that reason, it’s not rare to find welded joints between ferrite microalloyed and austenitic highalloyed steels. As a rule, these joints are welded by usi...

the aim of this article is study of tool plunge depth (tpd) effects on mechanical properties of friction stir welding of aa1100 aluminium alloy to a441 aisi steel. for this purpose the 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, and 0.6 mm tpd selected and other welding parameters kept constant. the results shows that the frictional heat increases and stir zone grain size decreases with increasing tpd at both base metals. ...

This paper proposes a novel Lamb wave line sensing technique for crack detection in a welded stiffener. The proposed technique overcomes one of the biggest technical challenges of Lamb wave crack detection for real structure applications: crack-induced Lamb waves are often mixed with multiple reflections from complex waveguides. In particular, crack detection in a welded joint, one of the struc...