Effect of Heat Flux on Welding by using FEA

Joining of Materials and Structures is the first and only complete and highly readable treatment of the options for joining conventional materials and the structures they comprise in conventional and unconventional ways and for joining emerging materials and structures in novel ways. The welding technology has obtained access virtually to every branch of manufacturing viz. bridges, ships, rail road equipment, building construction, boilers, pressure vessels, pipe lines, automobiles, aircrafts, launch vehicles and nuclear plants. In many fields welding has replaced riveting and casting processes. The current work focuses on to calculate the maximum stress, displacement and strain for curved plates being welded and also the deformation due to the temperature variation is to be calculated. For this the software like Solid works for modeling and ANSYS for analysis of the welded joint is used. It can be concluded that the heat input has a significant response on the weld element. And the cost incurred for the experimental set up and testing is reduced with the mentioned work.