Electron Beam Welding and Characterization of 21-6-9 Stainless Steel Annealed Plate and Welds
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
This report summarizes the electron beam (EB) welding and characterization work performed on annealed 21-6-9 stainless steel plate during the 2011-2012 time period. The work was directed at producing legacy autogeneous EB welds with the use of the Enhanced Modified Faraday Cup (EMFC) EB diagnostic to characterize the beam, and measuring the resulting tensile and hardness properties of the weld relative to annealed 21-6-9 stainless steel base metal. Different tensile bar configurations were produced, and the results were analyzed to determine how well the stress-strain behavior of small tensile samples compares to standard sized tensile samples for the same material. Additional comparisons were made between cross-weld tensile samples with and without weld steps to determine how the unwelded portion of a step joint affects the measured tensile behavior. Base metal tensile data was further used to calibrate a spherical indentation method to estimate uniaxial tensile behavior using a nanoindenter. The calibrated method was then used to generate the first engineering stress-strain curve for EB welded 21-6-9 stainless steel. Additional analysis was performed to determine Steinberg-Guinan and Johnson-Cook model parameters to represent both the annealed 21-6-9 SS base metal and the EB weld metal stress-strain behaviors under quasi static strain rate conditions.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344
- OSTI ID:
- 1132011
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL--TR-606312-REV-1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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