Welding Material Selection for a Specific Butt V-Weld by Means of Assisted Stress and Fatigue Calculations

摘要

When talking about welding joints, an important issue is choosing the proper welding material in order to comply with design requirements, if possible, without undertaking physical tests. The present research focuses on an assisted approach for the selection of the proper welding material for a specific butt V-weld by using the tools made available by the Autodesk Inventor software. The main elements taken into consideration for the research program are: identification of a number of suitable welding materials for the designed butt joint, assisted stress and fatigue resistance analysis of the weld joint for each possible welding material, record and interpretation of the results, selection of the welding material(s), making a weld sample for further physical testing and results comparison.