NUMERICAL ASPECTS FOR EFFICIENT WELDING COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS

Abstract

The effect of the residual stresses and strains is one of the most important parame-ter in the structure integrity assessment. A finite element model is constructed in order to simulate the multi passes mismatched submerged arc welding SAW which used in the welded tensile test specimen. Sequentially coupled thermal mechanical analysis is done by using ABAQUS software for calculating the residual stresses and distortion due to welding. In this work, three main issues were studied in order to reduce the time consuming during welding simulation which is the major problem in the computational welding mechanics (CWM). The first issue is dimen-sionality of the problem. Both two- and three-dimensional models are constructed for the same analysis type, shell element for two dimension simulation shows good performance comparing with brick element. The conventional method to calculate residual stress is by using implicit scheme that because of the welding and cooling time is relatively high. In this work, the author shows that it could use the explicit scheme with the mass scaling technique, and time consuming during the analysis will be reduced very efficiently. By using this new technique, it will be possible to simulate relatively large three dimensional structures.

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Dates

  • Submission Date2013-02-27
  • Revision Date2013-09-19
  • Acceptance Date2013-11-24
  • Online Date2014-07-06

DOI Reference

10.2298/TSCI130227180A

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