Avaliação cinemática e dinâmica da transferência metálica na soldagem MIG/MAG

Abstract

The goal of this work is to improve the knowledge of the metal transfer in MIG/MAG welding and supply data to improve the elaboration of its models. In this intention, experiments were accomplished with steel (inverse polarity; Ar+5%O2 shield gas) and aluminum (inverse polarity, Ar shield gas) electrodes, with steel electrode and several shield gases (inverse polarity, Ar+5%O2+ of 0 to 25%He shield gases) and experiments with steel electrode in direct polarity (Ar+5%O2 shield gas). The flat position welds were filmed by a high-speed video camera using the shadowgraph technique. Kinematics and dynamics characteristics of metal transfers in those experiments were obtained experimentally (droplets arrival speed in the weld pool, in flight droplets average acceleration, effective quantity of movement), and the weld geometry, and compared whenever possible with experimental and numeric results available in literature. The results showed that the weld current influences the kinematics and dynamics characteristics of the drops in all of studied conditions, that the arc length influences the cinematic characteristics and dynamics in the welds with steel and aluminum electrodes, and in the steel welds with different shield gasses; that the shield gas doesn't exercise significant influence in the appraised characteristics, and that the current polarity only affects the cinematic characteristics and dynamics in globular transfer mode. Additionally, the welding current affects the weld penetration despite the use of approximately the same heat input, the arc length affect the steel and aluminum weld penetration and with different shield gasses, the shield gas didn't exercise influences in the values of the penetration but it altered the form of the weld and the current polarity didn't exercise influences the weld penetration, but just in width and reinforcement, being more slender the weld bead in direct polarity.