Analysis of Optimum Butt Welded Joint for Mild Steel Components Using FEM (ANSYS)

Collins Eruogun Etin-osa; Joseph Ifeanyi Achebo

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Analysis of Optimum Butt Welded Joint for Mild Steel Components Using FEM (ANSYS)

Collins Eruogun Etin-osa, Joseph Ifeanyi Achebo

Published in Advances in Applied Sciences (Volume 2, Issue 6)

Received: 18 February 2017 Accepted: 19 May 2017 Published: 2 November 2017

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Weld failure due to vibrations can be minimized if appropriate measure is implemented to ensure forced vibration is not equal to the natural frequency of the material. This research focuses on determining the optimum butt welded joint, by analyzing the various natural frequencies and mode shape response obtained from five different types of butt joints. In this study, modal analysis was carried out using ANSYS 14.5 on two mild steel plates of dimensions 250mm by 175mm by 25mm welded together. Five different geometries of butt joints namely: single V groove butt weld, double V groove butt weld, single U groove butt weld, double U groove butt weld and square groove butt welded joints were examined. The natural frequencies and mode shape deformations obtained were compared with the natural frequency of mild steel of zero weld plate of dimension 500mm by 175mm by 25mm. Natural frequency of zero weld plate was found to be 51.549Hz, it was observed that the natural frequencies of the five joints mentioned were of close range in increasing order of 45.020Hz, 47.949Hz, 48.506Hz, 49.264Hz and 50.342Hz for square groove butt welded joint. The natural frequency of the square groove butt welded joint was observed to be closest to the zero weld plate; therefore we recommend square groove butt weld as optimum butt weld for engineering constructions because it failed the least when compared to other types of butt joints.

Published in	Advances in Applied Sciences (Volume 2, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.aas.20170206.12
Page(s)	100-109
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Butt Welded Joints, Finite Element Method (FEM), Fixed-Fixed Beam, Forced Vibration, Mild Steel Plates

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Collins Eruogun Etin-osa; Joseph Ifeanyi Achebo. Analysis of Optimum Butt Welded Joint for Mild Steel Components Using FEM (ANSYS). Adv. Appl. Sci. 2017, 2(6), 100-109. doi: 10.11648/j.aas.20170206.12

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Collins Eruogun Etin-osa, Joseph Ifeanyi Achebo. Analysis of Optimum Butt Welded Joint for Mild Steel Components Using FEM (ANSYS). Adv Appl Sci. 2017;2(6):100-109. doi: 10.11648/j.aas.20170206.12

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Collins Eruogun Etin-osa

Department of Production Engineering, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria
Joseph Ifeanyi Achebo

Department of Production Engineering, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria

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