Discussion and calculation on welding residual longitudinal stress and plastic strain by finite element method

Abstract

In recent years, some researchers have put forward the new viewpoint that the weld is merely formed during the cooling process, not concerned with the heating process. According to this view, it can be concluded that it is not the compressive but the tensile plastic strain that may remain in the weld. To analyze the formation mechanism of the longitudinal residual stress and plastic strain, finite element method (FEM) is employed in this paper to model the welding longitudinal residual stress and plastic strain. The calculation results show that both the residual compressive plastic strain and the tensile stress in the longitudinal direction can be found in the weld.

Keywords

residual stress / plastic strain / finite element method (FEM) / temperature field

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Acknowledgements

This research was sponsored by the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 20070410900).

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