Butt Fusion is the most important welding technique used for joining materials of similar compositions
and melting points, resulting in welded joints as strong as the materials itself. The principle of butt fusion is to heat
the materials ends to a designated temperature under pressure for a specified amount of time, then the materials ends
are fused together under pressure for a period of time. In the present work a set of experiments has been conducted
on base material of steel 52-3N (DIN 17100) to study the effect of butt welding process variables on the temperature
distributions, welding thermal cycles behavior, peak temperature and the cooling rate for the steel butt-welding joints
in the multiple pass welding process by means of the practically measurements. Also the effect of heat input which
presented by the welding process variables on the mechanical properties of the welded joints has been investigated
to reach the optimum welding variables which give the optimum mechanical properties. It is observed through the
experiments that the optimum mechanical properties can be achieved at interpass temperature of 200º, welding
voltage of 35V and welding speed of 6 mm/sec. |
