Abstract
The process capability of gas metal arc welding (GMAW) processes is mainly determined by the arc properties and the material transfer. In recent years, numerical methods are being used increasingly in order to understand the complex interactions between the arc and material transfer in gas metal arc welding. In this paper, we summarize a procedure to describe the interaction between an arc and a melting and vaporizing electrode. Thereafter, the presented numerical model is used to investigate the arc properties and the metal transfer for a pulsed GMAW process of mild steel in argon. The results of the numerical simulation are compared with OES measurements as well as high-speed images at different times in the pulse cycle and show excellent agreement. The results illustrate the high influence of the changing vaporization rate on the arc attachment at the wire electrode in the high current phase. It could be shown that a substantial part of the current does not participate in the constriction of the wire electrode via the resulting lorentz force which explains the nearly spatter-free droplet detachment in pulsed GMAW processes of mild steel in argon shielding gas.
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