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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 105
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Edited by: P. Iványi and B.H.V. Topping
Paper 39

Integration of Phase-Dependent Work-Hardening into Transient Weld Simulation

M. Stoschka, M.J. Ottersböck and M. Leitner

Department Product Engineering, Chair of Mechanical Engineering
Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
M. Stoschka, M.J. Ottersböck, M. Leitner, "Integration of Phase-Dependent Work-Hardening into Transient Weld Simulation", in P. Iványi, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 39, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.105.39
Keywords: structural weld simulation, process chain, work-hardening, high-strength steel, residual stresses, fatigue.

Summary
This paper shows a novel method to incorporate the transient work-hardening effect of different material phases into a thermo-mechanically coupled structural weld process simulation. The work-hardening behaviour of metals differs for "soft" ferritic-perlitc and "hard" bainitic, or even martensitic, phases. Previously conducted experimental work revealed that a soft material phase or rather a high operating temperature are mainly related to isotropic work-hardening, though the hard phased microstructure and accordingly ambient operating temperature are closer equated to a combined work-hardening. An enhanced methodology to implement the temperature- and phase-dependent work-hardening into structural weld process simulation is given. A longitudinal stiffener is chosen as a three-dimensional application example. The change in transient work-hardening is evaluated both for common construction steel S355J2G3 and high-strength steel S700MC. The simulated residual stress state after welding, unclamping and final cool-down is characteristically affected by the material dependent transient work-hardening behaviour. Finally, the effect of cyclic loading is depicted for selected loads in the finite-life fatigue region of the longitudinal stiffener specimen.

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