MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PLASMA ARC WELDED

DISIMILAR BUTT JOINT OF 304 AND 316 AUSTENITIC

STAINLESS STEELS

ABSTRACT

Plasma arc welding process are one of the most important metal joining
process use in the manufacturing industries. The reason behind the selection of
304 and 316 dissimilar austenitic stainless steel materials are that it has
numerous application. In this project welding should be processed by varying
the parameters like current, welding speed. Defect free welds are obtained at
certain welding parameters only. . The major part of the study contributes to the
mechanical properties such as tensile strength ,hardness showed enhanced
strength and hardness on the welded zone. The experiments were conducted
based on a Threefactor, three-level and L9 using Taguchi method. It applied to
improve the quality of welding .

Taguchi orthogonal array is designed with three levels of welding

parameters with the help of software Minitab 16. Nine run experiments of single
sheets and nine runs for overlap weld sheets are performed, surface hardness
and tensile properties are calculated using the Minitab 16 software.