INITIATION AND PROPAGATION IN FATIGUE LIFETIME ASSESSMENT OF STEEL WELD ENDS FOR OFF-ROAD VEHICLES USING THE PEAK STRESS METHOD

Giovanni Meneghetti¹, Jacopo Pelizzari², Alberto Campagnolo¹, Carlo Dengo²

¹University of Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering, Italy; ²Virtual Validation Department, Carraro S.p.A., Italy

Ductile crack growth of high-graded pipeline steels in the presence of Lüders plateau

Shengwen Tu¹, Yu Tang², Yinhui Zhang³, Jie Shu²

¹School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, No.28, Xianning West Road, Xi’an, 710049, Shaanxi, China; ²Safety, Environment & Technology Supervision Research Institute, Southwest Oil & Gas Field Company, PetroChi-na, 610041, Chengdu, Sichuan; ³PipeChina Institute of Science and Technology, PipeChina, 065000, Langfang, Hebei, China

ASSESSING THE FATIGUE LIMIT OF WELDED JOINTS: AN EFFICIENT APPROACH USING THE CYCLIC R-CURVE AND THE PEAK STRESS METHOD

Luca Vecchiato, Giovanni Meneghetti

University of Padua, Italy

Gas tungsten arc welding of low carbon steel with Ni-Cr and Medium Mn stainless steels

Mahmoud Khedr^1,2, I. Reda Ibrahim^2,3, Tamer Mahmoud², Atef Hamada¹

¹University of Oulu, Finland; ²Benha University, Egypt; ³Southern Methodist University, United States of America

INFLUENCE OF GTAW AND SMAW TECHNIQUES ON THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF S275JR LOW CARBON MANGANESE STEEL WELDED JOINTS

Mahmoud Khedr^1,2, Ahmed Abdelghany¹, Hamed Abdelalim³, Ahmed Gaafer², I. Reda Ibrahim⁴

¹University of Oulu, Finland; ²Benha University, Egypt; ³Central Metallurgical R&D Institute, Egypt; ⁴Southern Methodist University, United States of America

Indentation Behavior of Additively Manufactured 316L stainless steel Welded by Tungsten Inert Gas and Laser Welding Techniques

Mohamed Elsayed², Mahmoud Khedr¹, Antti Järvenpää¹, Ahmed Gaafer², Atef Hamada¹

¹University of Oulu, Finland; ²Benha University, Egypt