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Metallurgy of
Weld Joints
Dr. Chaitanya Sharma
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Welding Metallurgy
Lesson Objectives
Keywords:
Learning Activities
1. Look up
Keywords
2. View Slides;
3. Read Notes,
4. Listen to lecture
What Is Metallurgy ?
The science of joining metals by welding is closely relates to
the field of metallurgy.
Metallurgy involves science of:
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Fusion zone,
Weld Interface,
Heat affected Zone and,
Base material
Buoyancy force,
Surface tension gradient force,
Electromagnetic force,
Friction force.
Liquid
L+
Zone 3: Coarse grain HAZ
Zone 4: Fine grain HAZ
Zone 5: Intercritical HAZ
Zone 6: Tempered HAZ
Zone 7: UBM
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Fig: Schematic illustration of various regions in a fusion weld zone (and the
corresponding phase diagram) for 0.30% carbon steel. Source: AWS
PMM
partially
melted
material & partially melted
materials (PMM) and mushy
zone (MZ).
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WS 12.7 mm/min
Axial grains
Columnar grains
Columnar grains
WS 250 mm/min
Welding direction
WS 3.6 mm/min
Axial grains
Columnar grains
GTAW of 99.96% aluminium at welding
speed of (a) 1000 and (b) 250 mm/min
Columnar grains
Axial grains of GTAW (a) 1100 aluminium
at 12.7 mm/s welding speed, (b) 2014
aluminium at 3.6/s welding speed
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