Distortion Analysis of Steel Stiffened Plates Accounting for Different Welding Configurations | ||||
| Port-Said Engineering Research Journal | ||||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 13 March 2024 | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/pserj.2024.251565.1294 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Saad Saad-Eldeen   1; Mohamed Mansour2; Menna-Allah Eltaramsy3
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| 1Faculty of Engineering, Port Said University | ||||
| 2Emeritus Professor, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Port Said University, Port Said | ||||
| 3Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The present work presents a series of experimental distortion analysis of square shipbuilding steel plates with an attached stiffener. Two approved fillet welding configurations are applied to attach the stiffener using shielded metal arc welding at Port Said Shipyard. The specimens are welded using continuous and intermittent chain fillet welding for variant plating thicknesses with constant stiffener geometrical configurations, where two welding passes are applied. The effect of different fillet welding geometry on the induced initial imperfection amplitudes for different base plating thicknesses is investigated. The imperfection shapes are tracked, and the amplitudes are measured during and after the welding process. The imperfection amplitudes for each plating thickness and welding geometry are analyzed considering both preheat after the first pass and heat relief. Several relationships considering the welding time and the amount consumed electrodes are performed for different plating thicknesses and welding geometries. A comparison between existing empirical formulations and the observed results is performed in the form of plate slenderness, showing reasonable conclusions. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Experiment; Analysis; Distortion; Welding; Stiffened plates | ||||
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