Acoustic Emission Monitoring and Microscopic Investigation of Cracks in ERCuNi Cladding

摘要

A corrosion resistant CuNi cladding was deposited on SM45C (equivalent to AI5I1045) substrate by DC inverse arcwelding. During the welding process, a three channel acoustic emission (AE) monitoring system was applied to detectthe crack signals generating from both the cladding process and after cladding. Characteristics of the welding cracksignal and noise signal had been analyzed systematically. Based on the record time of the signal, the solidificationcrack and delayed crack were distinguished. By two-dimensional AE source location, the crack position was located,and then investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Results showed that the AE system could detect thewelding crack with high sensitivity and the two-dimensional source location could accurately determine the crackposition. Microstructures of the cladding and heat affected zone (HAZ) were examined. Dendrites in the claddingand coarse grains in the HAZ were found.