Heat treatment

associated with welding

Objective:
At the end of the lesson, the
students are able to explain
the importance of heat
treatment associated with
welding.
Welding specification frequently
call for heat-treating joints before
welding or after fabrication. To
avoid mistakes in their
application, welders should
understand the reasons for these
heat treatments.
Preheat
Is the process applied to raise the
temperature of the parent steel
before welding, to slow the cooling
rate of weld and the base material,
potentially resulting in softer weld
metal and heat affected zone
microstructures with a greater
resistance to fabrication hydrogen
cracking.
Stress Relief, Process annealing
It is an annealing process below
the transformation temperature
with subsequent slow cooling,
the aim of which is to reduce
the internal residual stresses in
a work piece without
intentionally changing its
structure and mechanical
properties..
Annealing
Annealing , frequently referred
to as full annealing, involves
heating the structure of a metal
to high enough temperature,
slightly above, to turn it
completely austenitic.
Normalizing
Consist of heating steels to slightly
above holding for austenite to form,
and then cooling. On cooling,
austenite transforms, giving
somewhat higher strength and
hardness and slightly less ductility
than in annealing.