Publications related to Fatigue Strength Upgrading of Cover Plate Ends by Welded Extensions in Existing Steel Bridge Girders

Experimental Evaluation of Steel Columns under Seismic Hazard-Consistent Collapse Loading Protocols

This paper presents results from 21 large-scale experiments on steel columns that examined their collapse behavior as related to steel moment resisting frames (MRFs). The test specimens included wide-flange and square hollow structural shapes (HSS) and wer ...

2021

Recommendations for Improved Welding Procedures for Thick Steel Plates Through Thermo-Mechanical Analysis

Dimitrios Lignos

Welding of steel plates is accompanied by residual stresses that increase as the constraint provided by the welded components becomes greater. Consequently, crack initiation has been reported after welding thick plates due to the high residual stresses dev ...

2019

Strain-based approach to fatigue crack initiation on high-strength-steel welded joints under multiaxial loading

Alain Nussbaumer, Martin Antonio René Garcia, Heikki Tapani Remes

A recently novel strain-based approach recently proposed by Remes (Remes 2013) for the fatigue strength modelling of welded steel joints is extended here to consider multiaxial loading conditions and three dimensions finite element models. Only the first s ...

CRC Press (Taylor & Francis)2019

Residual stresses of friction melt bonded aluminum/steel joints determined by neutron diffraction

Jean-Marie Drezet

Near interfacial residual stresses are investigated in a joint composed of aluminum alloy and dual phase steel. A small step neutron diffraction scan was initially performed to determine the weld interface position along the measured transverse cross secti ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Stress intensity factors for axial semi-elliptical surface cracks and embedded elliptical cracks at longitudinal butt welded joints of steel-lined pressure tunnels and shafts considering weld shape

Anton Schleiss, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Alexandre Jean Pachoud

When for steel liners of pressure tunnels and shafts high-strength steels are used, welded joints are subject to the risk of hydrogen induced cold-cracking in the base material. Longitudinal butt welded joints are critical regions as they are loaded transv ...

Elsevier2017

The importance of mantle wedge heterogeneity to subduction zone magmatism and the origin of EM1

Stéphane Laurent Escrig

The composition of the convecting asthenospheric mantle that feeds the mantle wedge can be investigated via rear-arc lavas that have minimal slab influence. This "ambient mantle wedge" composition (the composition of the wedge prior to the addition of a sl ...

Elsevier2017

New parametric equations to estimate notch stress concentration factors at butt welded joints modeling the weld profile with splines

Anton Schleiss, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Alexandre Jean Pachoud

For fatigue life estimation as well as for fatigue testing analysis of welded structures by local stresses approaches, the stress concentration factor (SCF) at the weld must be known. Full penetration butt welded joints are extensively used in steel struct ...

Elsevier2016

Proposed modeling approach of welding procedures for heavy steel plates

Dimitrios Lignos

A numerical modeling approach is proposed to assess the effectiveness of automatic submerged arc welding procedures for steel plates with thickness larger than 50 mm. The scope of study includes partial joint penetration butt welds, their numerical analysi ...

Elsevier2016

Hand Impedance Measurements During Interactive Manual Welding With a Robot

Aude Billard, Mustafa Suphi Erden

This paper presents a study of hand impedance measurements comparatively across ten professional and 14 novice manual welders, when they are performing tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding interactively with the KUKA lightweight robot arm (LWR). The results sh ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Robotic training for hand movements during manual welding with real-time alarm feedback

Aude Billard, Mustafa Suphi Erden

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to develop a robotic training system for the hand movements during manual welding. The system provides real-time notice-feedback with sound or light alarms, whenever the welding hand vibrates beyond the nominal level ...

Emerald2015

Fatigue behaviour and detailing of slotted tubular connection

Alain Nussbaumer, Luís Costa Borges, Cláudio Alexandre Pereira Baptista, Santosh Yadav

Tubular elements are used in steel structures not only for bracing of other members but also as cross girders diaphragms. They are a competitive solution both due to the lightweight and structural efficiency. Slotted tube-to-plate connections are the natur ...

2015

Extensive characterisation of advanced manufacturing solutions for the ITER Central Solenoid pre-compression system

The ITER Central Solenoid (CS), positioned in the center of the ITER tokamak, will provide a magnetic field, contributing to the confinement of the plasma. The 13 m high CS consists of a vertical stack of 6 independently driven modules, dynamically activat ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

End-point Impedance Measurements at Human Hand during Interactive Manual Welding with Robot

Aude Billard, Mustafa Suphi Erden

This paper presents a study of end-point impedance measurement at human hand, with professional and novice manual welders when they are performing Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding interactively with the KUKA Light Weight Robot Arm (LWR). The welding torch ...

2014

Multiscale, Multiphysics Numerical Modeling of Fusion Welding with Experimental Characterization and Validation

Jonathan Dantzig, Jun Liu, Yu Xie

Various physical interfacial phenomena occur during the process of welding and influence the final properties of welded structures. As the features of such interfaces depend on physics that resolve at different spatial scales, a multiscale and multiphysics ...

Springer Verlag2013

Effect of tool travel and rotation speeds on weld zone defects and joint strength of aluminium steel lap joints made by friction stir welding

Hossein Najafi

In this study, Al-5083 and St-12 alloy sheets were friction stir lap welded at different travel (7-23 cm min(-1)) and rotation (750-1125 rev min(-1)) speeds of the welding tool. The welded joints were characterised by various methods including shear tensil ...

2012

Laser Welding of Nickel-Titanium and Stainless Steel Wires : Processing, Metallurgy and Properties

Jonas Vannod

The biomedical industry has an increasing demand for dissimilar metal joining processes, which are used for complex configuration designs, such as guidewires and other intravascular interventional devices. Their production becomes more and more challenging ...

EPFL2011

Development of friction welding of wood : physical, mechanical and chemical studies

Bernhard Stamm

For several decades friction welding technology has found broad application in many fields of the metal and plastic connection industry. The fabricated joints are laminar or punctiform depending upon the shape of the parts to be welded. The work presented ...

EPFL2005

Joining wood by friction welding

Julius Natterer, Bernhard Stamm

At the Chair of Timber Constructions of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) tests were carried out to join wooden work pieces by friction welding without any additional welding deposit. It could be determined that this kind of tech ...

2005

Laser micro-spot welding of copper by real-time process monitoring

Simone Amorosi

A new laser micro-spot welding procedure for copper has been developed in order to eliminate the shortcomings of existing techniques based on laser pulse shaping or in-situ temperature control. This procedure consists in dividing the welding process in fou ...

EPFL2004