Fracture behavior of surface cracked wide plates of high strength steel containing overmatched repair welds
- GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht (Germany). Inst. of Materials Research
This paper presents the experimental results of tests conducted using surface cracked wide plates containing overmatched repair weld joints. The deformation and fracture characteristics of the repair welded wideplates notched at the original weld deposit, repair weld and HAZ regions are discussed. The aim of this work was to investigate the effects of strength mis-match and notch position on the fracture performance of such complex weldments. Furthermore, the predictions of crack driving force using the Engineering Treatment Model for mis-matched welds (ETM-MM) procedure was compared with the results of the wide plates containing semielliptical surface cracks. For this study, 1/2K weld joints were prepared on 30 nm thick pipeline steel X65 plates by using a SAW process, resulting in 50% overmatching. Repair was performed at the cap side of the original joint up to half depth of plate thickness with a GMA welding process under hyperbaric conditions, leading to 41% yield strength overmatching. In order to assess the fracture behavior of these welds, surface cracked (semielliptic defects) wide plates containing original and repair welds were tested in tension at {minus}10 C. The surface cracked wide plate tests results have confirmed that overmatched repair weld metal can exert a significant effect on the deformation and fracture behavior of the wide plates. Wide plates containing root cracks clearly showed a shielding effect of the overmatched repair weld since it prevented development of through thickness ligament yielding.
- OSTI ID:
- 403633
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9606279-; ISBN 0-7918-1492-0; TRN: IM9651%%668
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 14. international conference on offshore mechanics arctic engineering (OMAE), Florence (Italy), 16-20 Jun 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of OMAE 1996 -- Proceedings of the 15. international conference on offshore mechanics and arctic engineering. Volume 3: Materials engineering; Salama, M.M. [ed.] [Conoco Inc., Ponca City, OK (United States)]; Toyoda, Masao [ed.] [Osaka Univ. (Japan)]; Liu, S. [ed.] [Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)]; Santos, J.F. dos [ed.] [GKSS, Geesthacht (Germany)]; Stacey, A. [ed.] [Health and Safety Executive, London (United Kingdom)]; Tubby, P.; Pisarski, H. [eds.] [TWI, Cambridge (United Kingdom)]; PB: 579 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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