Fatigue life extension by repairing fatigue cracks initiated around box welds with low transformation temperature welding wire

Welding in the World

Volumn 45, Issue 5-6, 2001, Pages 3-8

  Ohta, Akihiko ^a   Maeda, Yoshio ^a   Suzuki, Naoyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Austenite; C02 welding; Carbon manganese steels; Compression; Cracking; Fatigue cracks; Fatigue strength; Filler materials; Gma welding; Influencing factors; Martensite; Mechanical properties; Practical investigations; Repair; Residual stresses; Structures; Transformation; Weld metal; Welding position

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038418192     PISSN: 00432288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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