Title : ( Using FEM for Prediction of Thermal Post-Buckling Behavior of Thin Plates During Welding Process )
Authors: Amin Esmaeilzadeh , mohammad sadeghi , Farhad Kolahan ,
Full TextAbstract
Arc welding is an important joining process widely used in many industrial applications including production of automobile, ships structures and metal tanks. In welding process, the moving electrode causes highly non-uniform temperature distribution that leads to residual stresses and different deviations, especially buckling distortions in thin plates. In order to control the deviations and increase the quality of welded plates, a fixture can be used as a practical and low cost method with high efficiency. In this study, a coupled thermo-mechanical finite element model is coded in the software ANSYS to simulate the behavior of thin plates located by a 3-2-1 positioning system during the welding process. Computational results are compared with recent similar works to validate the finite element models. The agreement between the result of proposed model and other reported data proves that finite element modeling can accurately predict the behavior of welded thin plates.
Keywords
Welding; Thin Plate; Buckling Distortion; Fixture Locators; Finite Element Modeling
@article{paperid:1085711,
author = {Esmaeilzadeh, Amin and Sadeghi, Mohammad and Kolahan, Farhad},
title = {Using FEM for Prediction of Thermal Post-Buckling Behavior of Thin Plates During Welding Process},
journal = {International Journal of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering},
year = {2011},
volume = {5},
number = {2},
month = {February},
issn = {2227-2771},
pages = {403--408},
numpages = {5},
keywords = {Welding; Thin Plate; Buckling Distortion; Fixture Locators; Finite Element Modeling},
}
%0 Journal Article
%T Using FEM for Prediction of Thermal Post-Buckling Behavior of Thin Plates During Welding Process
%A Esmaeilzadeh, Amin
%A Sadeghi, Mohammad
%A Kolahan, Farhad
%J International Journal of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
%@ 2227-2771
%D 2011
