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Effect of microstructural heterogeneities on variability in low-temperature impact toughness in multi-pass weld metal of 420 MPa offshore engineering steel

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Multi-pass steel weld metal is heterogeneous in nature due to spatial variations of multiple thermal cycles which leads to variations in mechanical properties. In this research, 420 MPa offshore steel was welded in the 1G, 2G, and 3G positions, and the fusion zone was divided into as-deposited weld metal (AD-WM) and reheated zone (RHZ). Subsequently, the sub-regions of the RHZ were identified, and their microstructural constituents, including martensite–austenite (MA) constituents and inclusions, were characterized and quantified. The results indicated that reheating the weld metal by the subsequent passes decides the area fraction of the RHZ in the weld metal and thus the impact toughness. The low heat input in the 2G sample led to the formation of alternate layers of AD-WM and RHZ throughout the fusion zone. The higher cooling rate led to the formation of fine acicular ferrite (AF) microstructure and thus high impact toughness (120 kJ). Increasing the heat input in the 3G and 1G samples resulted in the transformation of the AF to polygonal ferrite (PF), thereby decreasing the impact toughness. Increased number of passes in the 1G specimen led to higher area fraction of the RHZ (39.5%) than in the 3G sample (34%). Thus, the 3G sample exhibited higher low-temperature impact toughness (80 kJ) than the 1G sample (47 kJ). Thus, higher heat input and number of layers would result in multiple heating of the RHZ, which can be detrimental to the toughness.

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This research was supported by the MSIT (Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the Grant Information Technology Research Center support program (IITP-2023–2020-0–01791) supervised by the IITP (Institute for Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation) and Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (No. 20010583) for the Development of joining technology for high performance section steels and evaluation of their integrity.

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  1. Department of Advanced Materials Engineering, Dong-Eui University, Busan, 47340, Republic of Korea

    Savyasachi Nellikode, Sunusi Marwana Manladan, Ilguk Jo & Yeong-Do Park

  2. R&D Institute, Chosun Welding Co. Ltd, Ulsan, 45009, Korea

    Seung-Jin Jung & In-Chan Kim

  3. Advanced Materials Division, Ferrous Alloy Department, KIMS, Changwon, 51508, Republic of Korea

    Hyungkwon Park

  4. Dongnam Division, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, Busan, 46938, Republic of Korea

    Dae-Geun Nam

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Nellikode, S., Manladan, S.M., Jo, I. et al. Effect of microstructural heterogeneities on variability in low-temperature impact toughness in multi-pass weld metal of 420 MPa offshore engineering steel. Weld World 67, 1679–1693 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40194-023-01521-7

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