The Effect of Groove Shape on Molten Metal Flow Behaviour in Gas Metal Arc Welding release_5oqpwk32tncq7ctlwebrddxpiu

by Amin Ebrahimi, Aravind Babu, Chris Kleijn, Marcel Hermans, Ian Richardson

Published in Materials by MDPI AG.

2021   Volume 14, Issue 23, p7444

Abstract

One of the challenges for development, qualification and optimisation of arc welding processes lies in characterising the complex melt-pool behaviour which exhibits highly non-linear responses to variations of process parameters. The present work presents a computational model to describe the melt-pool behaviour in root-pass gas metal arc welding (GMAW). Three-dimensional numerical simulations have been performed using an enhanced physics-based computational model to unravel the effect of groove shape on complex unsteady heat and fluid flow in GMAW. The influence of surface deformations on the magnitude and distribution of the heat input and the forces applied to the molten material were taken into account. Utilising this model, the complex thermal and fluid flow fields in melt pools were visualised and described for different groove shapes. Additionally, experiments were performed to validate the numerical predictions and the robustness of the present computational model is demonstrated. The model can be used to explore the physical effects of governing fluid flow and melt-pool stability during gas metal arc root welding.
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