Abstract

Welding distortion of pozidriv-type welded structure with rectangular pipes by 20 welding passes was examined with experimental and computational approaches, and mitigation techniques were also investigated for precision fabrication. Welding experiment to fabricate pozidriv type welded structure was conducted beforehand, and out-of-plane welding distortion was measured with contact type displacement sensor. Effective thermal elastic plastic finite element computation with iterative substructure method and parallel computation was developed, and then employed to examine the thermal-mechanical response during the entire welding process and predict the residual out-of-plane welding distortion. Good agreement between computed results and measurement data was observed with comparison. The influences of welding sequence and clamping constraint with tack welding on welding distortion were considered, which were also practiced for out-of-plane welding distortion mitigation. Both experiment and finite element computation show that out-of-plane welding distortion with welding sequence optimization and clamping constraint can be significantly reduced with about 38% and 56% magnitude of original welding distortion, respectively, while their mechanisms were also clarified by means of stiffness variation of solving welded structure.

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