WELDING SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTATION OF MILD STEEL 1018 & 1062 USING ELECTRIC ARC WELDING PROCESS

Abstract

Today all the metal industries utilizes distinctive kinds of welding forms for joining material. Assembling and outlining specialists should know the maximum capacity of accessible joining procedures. In this project, the work is to compare and discuss the methods of Experimental & Simulation of Electric Arc welding process by taking AISI/SAE 1018 & 1062 Mild Steel as work piece material that
are adopted in order to find the following objectives by both experimentally and Analytically. The objectives are to assess the welding simulation capabilities of the commercial software package ANSYS. To evaluate three different plate lap-joint designs, undergoing welding. To compare both Experimental & Simulated Analysis with respect to Maximum welding Tensile strength. Evaluate the verification of experimental and Numerical results. A sample containing three pieces are welded with electric Arc Welding process taking current, voltage, and welding time as a input parameters to define the variety of the tensile strength of the samples. The tensile test is carried out using uniformly varying load up to rupture strength. The experimentation is divided into three cases (1018+1018, 1062+1062 and 1018+1062) for these three cases strength analysis were conducted experimentally and analytically. Modeling is done in CATIA -V5 and Static Structural analysis is done in ANSYS. A quite good results were obtained between measurements and simulations. The results show that ANSYS is able to simulate welding, though with some limitations and difficulties