Effects of Microstructure on Mechanical Property in Weld Metal Formed with the Hot-Wire Method Applying Ordinal CO2 Gas Shielded Arc Welding Method

• Published in: Tetsu-to-Hagane Vol. 99; no. 7; pp. 468 - 474
• Main Authors: Tsuyama, Tadahisa, Nakai, Kiyomichi, Akiyama, Mei, Takahashi, Bunpei, Sakamoto, Tatsuaki, Kobayashi, Sengo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan 2013
• Subjects: acicular ferrite; alloy element; ALPS; hot-wire; mechanical property; weld metal
• ISSN: 0021-1575; 1883-2954
• DOI: 10.2355/tetsutohagane.99.468

New welding method (F-MAG) based on CO2 gas-shielded arc welding method (MAG) was developed to increase deposition rate of weld metal. In F-MAG, filler wire (hot-wire) heated using direct-current was put into rear part of weld-pool formed with main electrode used in MAG. Multi-layered weld metals were prepared using both F-MAG and MAG. Microstructures of both as-weld and reheated zones in uppermost layer of the multi-layered weld metals were examined and the effects of microstructures on mechanical properties were analyzed. Both the as-weld and reheated zones of weld metal formed with F-MAG consisted of acicular ferrite (AF) and/or equiaxed ferrite and so on. Both strength and elongation in as-weld and reheated zones formed with F-MAG were superior compared with those formed with MAG. It could be suggested that strength increased by refinement of AF due to increase in the concentration of alloy elements being contained in hot-wire. Larger elongation of weld metal in F-MAG compared with that in MAG could be analyzed in terms of the aggregate of AFs with almost parallel slip systems between neighboring AFs, hereafter referred as to ALPS. The number of AFs contained in an ALPS formed in weld metal formed with F-MAG is larger than that with MAG, in spite of the sizes of ALPSs in weld metals formed with MAG and F-MAG being almost same between them. Deformation occurs over a lot of AFs in the case of finer AF through the rotation of tensile test piece during deformation.