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Investigating Welding Distortion of Thin-Plate Stiffened Panel Steel Structures by Means of Thermal Elastic Plastic Finite Element Method

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In the past decades, thin-plate weldments have been increasingly used in various engineering structures to meet the requirements of lightweight. However, deformation induced by welding process has a negative effect on assembly accuracy and structural integrity. Therefore, it is critical to predict welding deformation and then to control or reduce the total deformation. Because the thermal elastic plastic FEM has the advantage of high computational accuracy, an attempt was made to predict the welding deformation of a large-scale thin-plate welded structure in this study. Based on the commercial software MSC. Marc, a thermal elastic plastic FEM with the consideration of material nonlinearity, geometrical nonlinearity, and boundary nonlinearity was developed to simulate the welding deformation of large-scale welded structures. The effectiveness of the developed computational approach was verified by the experimental measurements. Moreover, the mechanism of buckling distortion in a large-scale stiffened panel structure was investigated based on the simulated results. In addition, the influences of heat input, welding procedures, and constraint condition on welding deformation were also examined numerically.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant numbers 51875063, 51905055] and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities Project [Grant numbers 2019CDXYCL0031, 2020CDJ-LHZZ-086].

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    Ziliang Li, Guangjie Feng & Dean Deng

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Li, Z., Feng, G., Deng, D. et al. Investigating Welding Distortion of Thin-Plate Stiffened Panel Steel Structures by Means of Thermal Elastic Plastic Finite Element Method. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 30, 3677–3690 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-021-05646-y

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