Author, Year Supervisor and Co-Supervisor

Muhammad Radhi bin Ismail Nasrizal bin Mohd Rashdi and

Ahmad Adly bin Abdul Halim, Mohd Mazlan bin Hamedan
July 2009

Hafiz bin Jamaluddin. Khairudin bin Salim

Nov 2009 Mohamad Yazman Yaakub
Objective
To study the effect of welding:
a. current on tensile and hardness properties
b. speed on tensile and hardness properties
c. parameter to weld geometrical shape and size by mean of the physical
improvement

To study on the mechanical properties of low carbon steel in order to:

a. determine the effects of applied pre-heating and without applied pre-heating.
b. compare the effectiveness between the applied pre-heating and without
applied pre-heating
c. analyze and assess the resultant with applied pre-heating and without applied
pre-heating toward the ductility, hardness and brittleness.
Scope Welding Procedure and Parameters
Mechanical Properties: Sila tambah
Tensile Strength and hardness of single V butt joint
welding.
Five different weld parameters on 12 mm carbon steel
(SAW process) :
a. current
b. travel speed
Sila tambah

Involve:
a. Cutting, Marking, Joinr Preparation, Tack Weld, pre-
heating, welding,cleaning, testing, and reporting.
B. Welding procedure spesification were explored during
this study: welding parameter, mechanical testing result
and non destructive testing result following the AWS D1.1
code and standard
Equipment
1. Oxy-acetylene cutting (OAC)
2. Grinder and Polisher
3. Submerged arc welding machine
4. Vickers hardness testing machine
5. Tensile testing machine
Experimental Methods
1. Welding Procedure
2. Visual Examination
3. Macro-Etch Examination
4. Vickers Hardness Test
5. Tensile Test
Result & Discussion
1. Weld Geometry
a. The amount of deposited metal is directly related to heat input.
b. The height of inforcement increases with increasing deposition area.
c. Reinforcement and bead width decrease when travel speed increased.
2. Hardness Properties
a. The hardness of the WM, HAZ, and PM decrease when heat input increase
b. Heat input decrease and travel speed increase during welding, decomposition rate will
decrease
3. Tensile Properties
a. Sila tambah
Recommendation
1. Investigate the effect of SAW parameters on the strength and ductility of the weld metals, the
tensile specimens should be made along the welding direction
2. To obtain more reliable result, the parameter deviation between each weld sample should be in
extreme value and the number of test specimen taken from each specimen should be more than
one.
3. Hardness measurement should be taken on three lines: 3 mm from surface, center of metal
thickness, and 3 mm from root surface.
4. To obtain more obvious result, tensile value should be in three or four decimal places.
My Recommendation
1. Type of steel to be use/buy
2. How to manipulate SAW parameters
3. Effect on the course/workshop/lab syllabus