Residual Stresses and Micro-Hardness Testing in Evaluating the Heat Affected Zone’s Width of Ferritic Ductile Iron Arc Welds.pdfVIP

Materials Sciences and Applications, 2016, 7, 73-82 Published Online January 2016 in SciRes. /journal/msa /10.4236/msa.2016.71007 Residual Stresses and Micro-Hardness Testing in Evaluating the Heat Affected Zone’s Width of Ferritic Ductile Iron Arc Welds * Georgios K. Triantafyllidis , Dimitrios I. Zagliveris, Dionysios L. Kolioulis, Christos S. Tsiompanis, Titos N. Pasparakis, Athanasios P. Gredis, Melina L. Sfantou, Ioannis E. Giouvanakis Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece Received 17 December 2015; accepted 26 January 2016; published 29 January Copyright © 2016 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) in Ductile Irons (DI) is often required by foundries for prac- tical manufacturing reasons. The mechanical properties of the welded structures are strongly de- pendent on their HAZ’s width. A model based on the behaviour of the ferritic matrix of high-Si DIs in order to make an approach in measuring their HAZ’s width is developed in this study. A series of thermal treatments on 3.35 and 3.75 wt% Si as-cast DIs and spot SMAWs is applied on these materials. The applied SMAWs are done on non-preheated and preheated samples (150˚C - 300˚C). For welding we modify the amperage (100 - 140A). The micro-hardness Vickers changes in the ferrite of the as-cast samples and inside the HAZ of the welded ones can be attributed to the existence of residual stresses (RS) in the ferritic matrix and assist in estimating the HAZ’s width.