Two-pass two-sided welding is widely applied to manufacture large-diameter pipes for main gas and oil pipelines. It is obvious that metal of the welds that are the first to make is subjected to repeated heating in making the subsequent pass. The study is dedicated to evaluation of the effect of repeated heating on properties of the weld metal of the two-sided welded joints on pipes made from increased-strength microalloyed steels. Investigations were carried out on the weld metal of welded joints on the pipes made from ferritic-pearlitic steels of strength category K56-K60 and of different microalloying types (10(09)G2FB, 10G2FT, 10G2T, etc.). Impact toughness, hardness and peculiarities of structural characteristics of the inside weld metal of the welded joints on pipes subjected to repeated heating in making the outside weld were evaluated. It was shown that decrease in impact toughness of test specimens of the two-pass two-sided welded joints on the pipes, the tested section of which comprises the metal of intersection of the inside and outside welds, is caused by the presence of the local embrittlement zones forming in the inside weld metal due to its heating in making the outside weld. Investigations, including by transmission electron microscopy combined with microdiffraction, detected the following two zones present in the inside weld metal: low-temperature zone (heating to 450-650 °C) caused by occurrence of the dispersion hardening processes, and high-temperature zone (heating to 950-1100 °C) related to the MAC-phase containing a substantial amount of a more stressed lath martensite and forming as a result of decomposition of non-homogenised austenite.


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    Title :

    Properties of the weld metal of two-sided welded joints on pipes made from increased-strength microalloyed steels


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    Publication date :

    2013


    Size :

    6 Seiten, 6 Bilder, 3 Tabellen, 8 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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