Journal of Welding Science

In this research, tensile strength of ultrasonic welded parts made of thermoset polymer-reinforced glass fiber with surface preparation has been investiagted. In order to elevate the adhesion of two surfaces laser grooving method has been applied. Two type of thermoplastic materials including Plymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and polypropylene (PP) have been used as interlayers. Influences of main welding parameters were investigated. The results show that the force and compression parameters in these joints have been ineffective parameters and in higher weld welds, the thermosetting resin has started thermal degradation. The pressure considered constant and set at 2 bar, welding time set at 1.6 seconds and holding time considered 3 seconds. The results showed that the minimum tensile strength of welded samples with laser surface preparation method is 1286 N, which is much more than maximum tensile strength of welded samples without any surface preapration. This indicates that laser beam surface preparation is an effective method in improving of the adhesion strength of thermoset polymeric parts.

The results showed that the microhardness and tensile strength of the heat-affected zone as the weakest welding zone in some samples reduced up to 30% compared to the base metal. On the other hand, a decrease in rotational speed, an increase in tool movement speed, and the number of welding passes cause grain refinement and improve mechanical properties. However, the effect of decreasing the rotation speed and increasing the tool movement speed were shown to be more favorable due to less heat production. Accordingly, the hardness in the welded zone with a rotational speed of 600 rpm and a movement of 80 mm/min increased from 90 to 125 HV  compared to the base metal, and the hardness reduction in the zones around the welded zone was only 5 Vickers. It was also found that reducing the grain size of the stir zone, while improving the mechanical properties leads to increasing the density of the surface pasive layer, preventing the attack of aggressive chlorine ions and thus reducing the corrosion intensity by 50 times in saline seawater.

In this research, the effect of bonding temperature on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Inconel 939 super alloy by transient liquid phase bonding method. For this purpose, the middle layer of MBF20 with a thickness of 50 microns and three temperatures of 1060 °C, 1120 °C, 1180 °C and a time of 45 minutes have been used. In order to evaluate the microstructure, a scanning electron microscope equipped with an elemental analysis system has been used. Vickers hardness test and shear strength test have been used to evaluate the mechanical properties. The research findings showed that with increasing temperature from 1060 °C to 1120 °C, the width of the athermal solidification zonedecreased from 38µm to 35µm and with increasing temperature at 1180 °C, the athermal solidification zone was completely removed and isothermal solidification zone was replaced. In addition, with increasing temperature, the hardness in the joint center decreases and the shear strength increases.

Todays, application of composite materials has been increased in various industries due to their special strength properties and also other unique features. One of the important things during making of such materials, is their connection to each other. In this article, the Joining of heat-hardened parts with surface preparation with the help of laser, simple and rough, has been investigated. The main goal is to investigate the better surface adhesion mechanisms of the connection compared to the simple surface, as well as to create practical approaches to increase the adhesion strength of the thermosetting parts. The composites were made of heat-hardened epoxy resin (which hardens after 12 hours at room temperature) and two-dimensional woven glass fibers and were connected by glue after volume heating at a temperature of 180-200 degree Celsius. In this research, the overlapping surface of the part was engraved by laser in circular patterns. The raw parts were prepared by manual polishing and mechanical abrasion. The results show that by examining the effect of surface roughness and composite thickness, the highest value of shear strength is related to the surface roughness compared to other preparation methods. Surface preparation increases the amount of adhesive penetration in the parts and expands the tensile strength. The thickness also has a conditional effect on the strength of the connection.
 

In this research, dissimilar joining of biodegradable AZ31 alloy to Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy by rotary friction welding method was investigated with aim of preparation of pin or screw for orthopedic applications. optical and scanning electron microscope (sem) were used to investigate the microstructure, x-ray diffraction was conducted for phase analysis, torsion and micro-hardness tests were carried out to investigate mechanical properties, and polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy were employed to evaluate corrosion resistance. in the welding procedure, rotational speed of 1100, 1200 and 1300 rpm and friction time of 2 and 4 seconds were considered as variable parameters, and two parameters of friction pressure and forge pressure were considered as constant parameters at 50 and 40 MPa, respectively. The microstructure of the joint zone showed that there is no deformation in the titanium alloy side. However, in the magnesium side, the greatest amount of deformation occurred with the distance from the joint line, where weld center zone (CZ), dynamic recrystallization zone (DRX), thermomechanical affected zone (TMAZ) and partial deformation zone (PDZ) are detected. The formation of intermetallic phases such as Mg2AlZn, Ti3Al and also the refining the grains size is the main reason for increasing the hardness of the magnesium side near the joint line up to 150 HV. The results of the torsion test showed that the welded sample has the highest shear strength of 81.51 MPa and also the highest corrosion resistance among other samples at a rotation speed of 1200 rpm and a friction time of 4 seconds.

In this research, the optimization of the artificial neural network (ANN) capability for predecting the tensile strength and elongation of friction stir welded Al-5083 (FS-welded Al-5083) was carried out. The effective parameters of ANN, such as the number of layers, number of neurons in hidden layers, transfer function between layers, the learning algorithm and etc. were investigated and the efficient neural network was determined to predict the tensile properties of FS-welded Al-5083. The investigations revealed that the perceptron neural network with two hidden layers and 17 neurons numbers, Lunberg-Marquardt training algorithm and Logsig transfer function for the intermediate layers and Tansig transformation function for the output layer is the most optimized neural network for the prediction. The optimized network has an optimal structure based on the minimum value of the mean square error of 0.05, the maximum total correlation coefficient of 0.93 and the line regression with an angle of 45 degrees between the actual and estimated values. Therefore, this network has a good performance for training, generalizing and estimating of tensile strength and elongation of FS-welded Al-5083.

In this study, mechanical properties of the transient liquid phase (TLP) bonds between Hastelloy X to Ni3Al IMC at temperature range of 800 - 900 °C were investigated. The microstructure of the joints was examined by optical and scanning electron microscopy. Also, high temperature XRD (HTXRD) analysis was utilized to investigate the phase changes at different temperatures of half-joints. According to microscopic observations, the joint cross-section consisted of three regions including diffusion affected zone (DAZ), isothermal solidification zone (ISZ), and Athermal solidification zone (ASZ), which increasing temperature and time result in ISZ consisting of nickel-rich solid solution developed across the microstructure. The optimum joint bonding strength was achieved for the sample treated at 1100 °C – 180 min equal to 355 ± 4.5 MPa. The ultimate tensile strength reached 36.5 ± 1 and 20.5 ± 1 MPa at temperatures of 800 °C and 900 °C, respectively. Fracture occurred on the side of the IMC substrates at both test temperatures due to the presence of shrinkage porosity during the solidification stage of IMC and crystal lattice parameters mismatch with the matrix.

This study aimed to investigate the effect of diffusion welding parameters on the microstructural characteristics and mechanical properties of the dissimilar joint between AISI 418 stainless steel and Inconel 738 superalloy using Ni interlayer with a thickness of 50 µm. The experiments were performed in a vacuum furnace at three temperatures of 1000, 1050 and 1150 °C for 45, 60, 75 and 90 min under the pressure of 5 MPa.The results show that voids and non-bonded areas are seen in the samples that were bonded at a lower temperature (1000 °C). By increasing the joining temperature from 1000 °C to 1050 °C, all micro discontinuities have disappeared, which shows that the microplastic deformation of roughness has improved. Then, by increasing the temperature to 1150 °C,non-bonded areas are observed in the joint due to the reduction of pressure on the contact surfaces. When pure nickel is used as an interlayer, intermetallic compounds of
γ' [Ni3(Al, Ti)] are formed in the γ matrix phase on the side of Inconel 738 superalloy while compounds of FeNi3 and γ (γFe, Ni) are formed on the side of AISI 418 stainless steel. According to the results of line scan analysis, the slope and penetration of elements in Inconel 738 superalloy is lower than AISI 418 stainless steel , which indicates less penetration in Inconel 738 superalloy. In the sample welded at the temperature of 1050 °C and the time of  90 Min, the penetration value of the nickel interlayer in AISI 418 stainless steel  and Inconel 738 superalloy was 40 µm and 35 µm, respectively. By comparing the maximum hardness, it can be concluded that the joint at the temperature of 1050 °C and the time of 90 Min has a lower maximum hardness than other samples. Therefore, it has better joint characteristics than other samples in terms of intermetallic compounds. The highest value of shear strength was obtained at the temperature of 1050 °C and the time of 90 Min, which is equal to 270 MPa.

In this research, the transient liquid phase bonding of St52 carbon steel to WC-Co cermet using a copper interlayer with 50 μm thickness was done. For this purpose, samples were jointed to each other at a constant temperature of 1100 ºC and bonding times of 1, 15, 30, and 45 min. The microstructure of the joints was examined using an optical microscope and scanning electron microscope equipped with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. XRD analysis was also used to investigate the effect of bonding on the phase changes of the bonding area. Microhardness and tensile shear tests were also conducted to study the mechanical properties of the samples. Microstructural investigations showed the formation of three different zones including isothermal and athermal solidification zones and DAZ in the WC-Co base material side, which determine the characteristics of the samples. The isothermal solidification zone contained a Fe-rich solid solution and the athermal solidification zone contained a Cu-rich solid solution. η phase was not formed in the DAZ of WC-Co cermet at bonding times of 1 and 15 min. This phase was formed in the DAZ of WC-Co cermet by increasing the bonding time to 30 and 45 min. The microhardness studies showed that all samples had the same trend. Maximum microhardness was 1100 HV which was related to WC-Co base cermet and the lowest microhardness was about 220 HV which was related to steel base metal. Also, the maximum tensile-shear strength of the bonded samples was about 180 MPa for a bonded sample at a bonding time of 15 min, which was due to the increase in the volume fraction of iron-rich solid solution, as well as proper microstructural continuity and the presence of an optimal amount of copper-rich phase in the microstructure.