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Abstract
Fillet welding is widely used in the assembly of ships and offshore structures. The T-joint configuration is fre-
quently reported to experience fatigue damage when a marine structure meets extreme loads such as storm loads.
Fatigue damage is affected by the magnitude of residual stresses on the weld. Recently, many shipping registers
and design guides have required that the fatigue strength assessment procedure of seagoing structures under wave-
induced random loading and storm loading be compensated based on the effect of residual stresses. We propose a
computational procedure to analyze the residual stresses in a T-joint. Residual stresses are measured by the X-ray
diffraction (XRD) method, and a 3-D finite element analysis (FEA) is performed to obtain the residual stress pro-
file in the T-joint. The proposed finite element model is validated by comparing experiments with computational
results, and the characteristics of the residual stresses in the T-joint are discussed.
Seagoing marine structures are often subjected to demonstrated by comparing FEA results with ex-
dynamic service loads, including random fluctua- periment results.
tions of storm loading. Tomita et al. (1995)[6] re-
ported that a significant proportion of fatigue cracks
occurring in ship and ocean structures occurred by
wave-induced random loading. In high wave height
conditions, wave height reaches a maximum value
at one point. The higher wave condition is called
‘storm condition or loading’. The fatigue behavior
of those seagoing structures is complicated by nu-
merous factors intrinsic to the nature of welded
joints. Recently, shipping registers and classifica-
tions have required that a fatigue life assessment
must consider residual stress distributions for a
marine vessel that experiences storm loading [7]. It
is obvious that a detailed knowledge of the residual Fig. 1. Fatigue life assessment process
stress profiles generated is required together with
methods for incorporating these into fatigue life-
2. Measured Residual Stress
time calculation procedures [3, 8]. This requirement
is schematically illustrated in Fig. 1. 2.1 Specimens
Estimating the fatigue life of welded joints can
be complex, costly, and time consuming due to AH32 steel was chosen for this study because it is
complex joint geometry, the number of stress con- widely used for marine structures, and it is easily
centration points, and the residual stress distribu- welded without special heat treatment. The welded
tions. Assessment of the fatigue life of welded specimens were fabricated from TMCP (Thermo-
structures considering residual stresses should be Mechanical Control Process) AH32 structural steel.
performed using fracture mechanics, and should The chemical composition and mechanical proper-
also be based on residual stresses. Accurate predic- ties of the specimen are presented in Table 1. DW-
tion of residual stresses induced by the welding 55LSR electrode with a diameter of 1.2 mm was
process is very difficult because the thermal and used for the weldment generation [9]. The chemical
mechanical behavior in welding includes extremely composition and mechanical properties of the elec-
high temperatures, a moving heat source, and the trode are presented in Table 2.
temperature dependence of material properties.
Finite element analysis (FEA) of the welding pro- Table 1. Chemical composition and mechanical properties of
cess is effective in predicting residual stresses. AH32
We performs a thermal elastic-plastic analysis C Si Mn P S Ni Cu Mo
using finite element techniques to analyze the 0.15 0.14 0.91 0.19 0.44 0.01 0.02 0.02
thermomechanical behavior and assess residual Yield Stress 310 MPa
stresses in T-joint weldment, and also measures the
residual stress by a non-destructive method. This Ultimate Strength 500 MPa
study is the preceding task for the prediction of
fatigue life in a T-joint fillet, which is the most Table 2. Chemical composition and mechanical properties of
commonly reported fatigue damage in ships and DW-55LSR
ocean structures subjected to storm loading. The C Si Mn P S Ni
residual stresses of a T-joint weld specimen were 0.04 0.36 1.37 0.008 0.008 1.4
measured using X-Ray diffraction (XRD), and a
Offset Yield Stress 550 MPa
three-dimensional (3-D) thermal elasto-plastic FEA
was performed. The validity of the FEA was Tensile Strength 585 MPa
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The geometric configuration and the dimensions of lattice strain distributions. With the XRD method,
the T-joint are illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, respec- components of strain are obtained from measure-
tively. ments of changes in the lattice spacing of crystals.
Noyan and Cohen (1987)[10] and Cullity
(1978)[11] explain in detail the complete method
for measuring residual stresses. In this work, the
XRD measurements of residual stresses near the
weld bead are based on the following equation [3].
E d d0
(1)
(1 )sin d0
2
specimens were symmetric so only the stresses in mulation using the MSC.Marc code [12]. In the
the right half were measured. present study, the thermal analysis and the mechan-
The measured values of the stresses at each point ical analysis were coupled and conducted in se-
are shown in Table 4 and Fig. 5. quence. As a first step, the thermal analysis was
carried out calculating the transient temperature
Table 4. Measured residual stresses distribution during welding. As a second step, the
No. Measured location (mm) Residual Stress(MPa) mechanical analysis was conducted based on the
1 0 302 temperature field. The finite element model em-
2 5 169.4 ployed for the mechanical analysis is similar to the
3 10 26.3 thermal model except for the boundary conditions.
4 15 -70.0 The thermal analysis was based on the heat conduc-
5 20 -62.9 tion formulation with a double ellipsoidal heat
6 30 -31.0 source composed of a surface flux and a volumetric
7 40 1.6
flux. For the analysis, the eight-node brick element
was chosen.
8 60 -1.1
9 80 1.4
10 100 -2.0 3.1 FE Modeling
the thermal strain is zero) for thermal expansion stress-strain curves are depicted in Fig. 9. The
coefficients of filler and base metals, respectively. phase transformation temperatures, the correspond-
In the mechanical analysis, boundary conditions ing latent heats, and the way in which the latent
are just used to prevent rigid body motion. The heat was released during the phase transformations
boundary condition is shown in Fig. 7. Twelve were considered in the model. Metallurgical phase
points on both sides of horizontal plate were con- transformation effects were not considered in our
strained in all directions. analysis due to the lack of a thermo-metallurgical
model in MSC.Marc.
In thermal analysis and mechanical analysis, the 3.3 Heat source of Arc FCA Welding
computations used temperature dependent thermo-
The first step in the analysis of welds is to accu-
physical and mechanical properties of the base met-
rately determine the transient temperature field. We
al and the filler metal. The thermo-physical proper-
have used a 3-D heat diffusion finite element model
ties and mechanical properties of the AH32 steel
to simulate heat transfer during welding. The gov-
are shown in Fig. 8 and Fig. 9, respectively. The
erning energy balance equation for transient heat
plastic hardening model was assumed to be nonlin-
transfer analysis is given as follows:
ear isotopic hardening and to follow the von Mises
yield criteria and the associated flow rules. The
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7 7 5 9
6 3 f fr QW
Q f ,r ( x , y , z ) e3 x / a 2 3 y 2 / b2 3 z 2 / c 2
2
e e (5)
abc f ,r
Fig. 11. Temperature distribution on the weldment.
loss due to convection is accounted for using New- is modeled using Hooke’s law with a temperature-
ton’s law: dependent elastic modulus. The Von Mises yield
surface and temperature-dependent material proper-
q h(Ts To ) (6) ties are employed to model the plastic strain.
4. Conclusion
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