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Investigation on various welding consumables on properties of carbon steel material in gas metal arc welding under constant voltage mode

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In this present work, the influence of different consumables on weld properties of carbon steel plate was studied by automatic gas metal arc welding under constant voltage mode. For all experiments, the process parameters such as welding current of 200 A, voltage of 28 V and welding speed of 200 mm/min were kept constant. The results indicate that the angular distortion remained higher for solid wire, whereas it was minimum for flux-cored wire and the lowest in metal-cored wire. Mechanical properties such as yield strength, tensile strength, elongation and joint efficiency remained high for solid wire relative to cored wire. Excellent impact toughness of the weld metal and heat-affected zone was reported for the flux-cored welds compared with solid wire and metal-cored welds.

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The authors want to express their aknowledgement to Dr. Kush P. Mehta for his significant supports at manuscript reviewing and executing revisions. The authors would like to thank Department of Science and Technology (DST), INDIA for the project of SR/FTP/ETA-19/08.

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    Pritesh Prajapati & Vishvesh J Badheka

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Prajapati, P., Badheka, V.J. Investigation on various welding consumables on properties of carbon steel material in gas metal arc welding under constant voltage mode. Sādhanā 42, 1751–1761 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-017-0715-8

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