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Original Article

TIG and A-TIG welding experimental investigations and comparison to simulation

Part 1: Identification of Marangoni effect

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Pages 609-615 | Received 09 Mar 2012, Accepted 30 Mar 2012, Published online: 12 Nov 2013
 

Abstract

In the present work, the chemical mechanism was shown for tungsten inert gas (TIG) and active TIG (A-TIG) welding. The results obtained with a two-dimensional axial symmetric model developed to simulate the flow behaviour in the meting pool on a stainless steel disc (304L) melted by a stationary heat source were presented to show the influence of Marangoni convection combined with Lorentz forces. This study shows the influence of the addition of an activating flux on the geometric characteristics of the weld beads in A-TIG welding.

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