Use of nickel to improve the mechanical properties of high oxygen underwater wet welds
- Petrobras Research Center, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States). Center for Welding and Joining Research
The use of oxidizing electrodes for wet welding of offshore structural steels, in spite of their low susceptibility to hydrogen HAZ cracking, is limited, in part by the poor mechanical properties of their weld deposits. Low levels of carbon, manganese and other deoxidizers, together with high oxygen contents seems to be one of the reasons for this low performance. This work investigated the influence of nickel additions on the tensile strength and impact resistance of wet welds deposited at 1.1 m of water depth. It was found that maximum values of toughness and tensile strength occur for nickel contents between 2 and 3 weight percent. Nickel additions also had a strong effect in reducing the grain size of equiaxed ferrite in the reheated region of underwater wet welds thereby improving their mechanical properties. The deterioration of mechanical properties for nickel contents higher than 3 weight percent was attributed to weld metal solidification cracking.
- OSTI ID:
- 205444
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950695-; ISBN 0-7918-1309-6; TRN: IM9615%%224
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International conference on offshore mechanics and arctic engineering, Copenhagen (Denmark), 18-22 Jun 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of OMAE 1995 -- Proceedings of the 14. 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., Suita, Osaka (Japan)]; Liu, S. [ed.] [Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)]; Santos, J.F. dos; Kocak, M. [eds.] [GKSS, Geesthacht (Germany)]; Patterson, E.A. [ed.] [Univ. of Sheffield (United Kingdom)]; Berge, S. [ed.] [Univ. of Trondheim (Norway)]; Stacey, A. [ed.] [Health and Safety Executive, London (United Kingdom). Offshore Safety Div.]; PB: 600 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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