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International Journal of Advanced Engineering and Science, Vol. 5, No.

2, 2016

SPOT WELD GROWTH ON MEDIUM CARBON STEEL, PART 2:

SERVO BASED ELECTRODE ACTUATION SYSTEM

Nachimani Charde1,2, Leow Chee Seng2


1
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,
University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel:+60379674497 Fax:+60379675317
Email: nachicharde@yahoo.com

2
Graduate School, IIC University of Technology,
Building 650, National Road 2, Sangkat Chak Angre Krom,
Khan Mean Chey, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tel:+85523425148
Email: drleowcs32@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

In part 1, the medium carbon steel was welded using pneumatic based electrode actuation system and
later it was investigated for the fatigue strength under tensile shear load, hardness and micro structural
changes. Similar type of welding conditions and strength test are carried out in this experiment but the
electrode actuation system is replaced with servo based electrode actuation system. A 1.5 kW servo motor
and its driving mechanical assembly were newly designed to control the upper electrode movement as to
improve the force profiles before, during and after the welding process takes place. By doing so, the force
profiles were significantly improved and the corresponding changes are analyzed for the fatigue strength.
As such the base metals and its sizes were similar to previous experiments but the welding lobe
parameters and force profiles are slightly changed. The servo based electrode actuation system improves
the forging forces during welding process and consequently minimizes the porosity occurrences at the
welded region. Specifically the diameters of welded regions were increased for the same welding
conditions as compared to part 1 results and therefore the tensile shear force was increased to break the
welded joints in this experiment. However the hardness distributive values were remained almost the
same as part ones results because the solidification process was happened to be same for both
experiments. This has been confirmed by the metallurgical study which reveals that the micro structural
changes are not very much deviated from both experiments.

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ISSN 2304-7712

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