• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.66-70
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• 2012

Welding is an essential process in the automotive industry. Most welding processes that are used for auto body is spot welding. And $CO_2$ arc welding is used in a small part. In production field, $CO_2$ arc welding process is decreased and spot welding process is increased due to welding quality is poor and defects are occurred in $CO_2$ arc welding process frequently. But $CO_2$ arc welding process should be used at robot interference parts and closed parts where spot welding couldn't. $CO_2$ welding is divided into lap welding and plug arc spot welding. In case of plug arc spot welding, burn through and under fill were caused in various welding environment such as different thickness combinations of base metal, teaching point, over the two steps welding and inconsistent voltage/current. It makes some problem like poor quality of welding area and decrease the productivity. In this study, we will evaluate the effect of teaching point through the weld pool behavior and bead geometry in the arc spot welding at the plut hole. Welding position is horizontal position. And galvanized steel sheet of 2.0mm thickness that has plug hole of 6mm diameter was used. Teaching point was changed by center, top, bottom, left and right of the plug hole. At each condition, the phenomenon of weld pool behavior was confirmed using a high-speed camera. As the result, we find the center of plug hole is the most optimal teaching point. In the other teaching point, under fill was occurred at the plug hole. This phenomenon is caused by gravity and surface tension. For performance of arc spot welding at the plug hole, the teaching condition should be controlled at a center of plug hole.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.59-64
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• 2012

Welding is an essential process in the automotive industry. Most welding processes that are used for auto body are spot welding and $CO_2$ welding are used in a small part. In production field, $CO_2$ welding process is decreased and spot welding process is increased due to welding quality is poor and defects are occurred in $CO_2$ welding process frequently. But $CO_2$ welding process should be used at robot interference parts and closed parts where spot welding couldn't. Because of the 0.65mm ~ 2.0mm thickness steel sheet were used in the automotive industry, poor quality of welding area such as burn through and under fill were happened frequently in $CO_2$ process. In this paper, we will study about the penetration depth which gives a huge impact on burn through changing a degree of base metal, welding position and torch angle. Voltage, current and welding speed were fixed but degree of base metal, welding position and torch angle were changed. And Cold- Rolled(CR) steel sheet was used. Penetration depth was analysed by multiple regression analysis to derive approximate calculations. And reliability of approximate calculations were confirmed through additional experiments. As the results of this research, we confirmed the effect of torch and plate angle to bead shape. And we present a possibility that can simulate more accurate to weld geometry, as deduced the verification equations that has tolerance of less than 21.69%.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제10권3호통권36호
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• pp.497-508
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• 1998

본 연구에서는 평면결함의 일종인 용입부족의 크기가 맞대기 용접부의 피로 특성에 미치는 영향을 정량적으로 규명하였다. 정적실험 결과 비드를 삭제하지 않은 맞대기 용접부의 인장강도와 항복강도는 용입부족 크기에 관계없이 일정하였다. 또한 피로실험 결과 완전용입된 맞대기 용접부의 피로강도는 국내 외의 시방서에서 규정하고 있는 피로 등급을 모두 만족하며, 용입부족 크기에 따른 피로강도의 저하는 용입부족 크기가 증가함에 따라 피로강도가 급격하게 감소하였다. 파단형태에서 완전용입 시험체와 용입부족 시험체의 파단형태가 서로 다른 형식을 취하고 있음을 알 수 있었는데 이는 용접지단부와 용접루트부의 기하학적 형상에 따른 응력집중계수의 변화에 기인하는 것을 유한요소해석에서 확인하였다. 따라서 강구조물에 대한 용접제작시 발생할 수 있는 용접결함 중 평면결함의 일종인 용입부족은 반드시 피해야만 강구조물의 공용수명을 충분히 확보할 수 있을 것이다.