FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS AND WELD EFFICIENCY OF FCAW PROCESS WITH DIFFERENT WELD PARAMETERS ON EN8

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS AND WELD EFFICIENCY OF FCAW PROCESS WITH DIFFERENT WELD PARAMETERS ON EN8

Gopinath T¹,Dr.Makesh M²,Sathees T³

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, PG Scholar of  Engineering Design,        

 Paavai Engineering college, Namakkal-637018.

^2&3Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,  Paavai Engineering college, Namakkal-637018.

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Abstract - In the welding world,Flux-cored Arc Welding (FCAW) is a process commonly used in different industries to join the metals and alloys. It has a few benefits such as high deposition rates, more tolerance of rust and mill scale than GMAW, simpler and more adaptable than SAW, less operator skill required than GMAW, high productivity than SMAW and good surface appearance. For the repairs industry they are performed by used the Manual Metal Arc Welding (MMAW), however the flux cored arc welding (FCAW) process are more benefits and have been appreciated by the industry for many years Flux Core Arc Welding (FCAW) is an arc welding process that using continuous Flux-cored filler wire. The flux is used as a welding protection from the atmosphere environment. In this project work finally concluded that the changes in valve of heat inputs will lead to affect the thermal distribution on the work piece. From the above experimentation, due to higher heat input, the thermal flux is also increased. If current increased thermal flux gets increased both are directly proportional with each other.

Key Words:  GMAW, SMAW, MMAW, ANSYS WORKBENCH, SOLIDWORKS, VCR system, performance improvement.