<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Water as the welding environment determines some essential problems influencing steel weldability. Underwater welding of high strength steel joints causes increase susceptibility to cold cracking, which is an effect of much faster heat transfer from the weld area and presence of diffusible hydrogen causing increased metal fragility. The paper evaluates the susceptibility to cold cracking of the high strength S355G10+N steel used, among others, for ocean engineering and hydrotechnical structures, which require underwater welding. It has been found from the CTS test results that the investigated steel is susceptible to cold cracking in the wet welding process.</p></abstract>

Water as the welding environment determines some essential problems influencing steel weldability. Underwater welding of high strength steel joints causes increase susceptibility to cold cracking, which is an effect of much faster heat transfer from the weld area and presence of diffusible hydrogen causing increased metal fragility. The paper evaluates the susceptibility to cold cracking of the high strength S355G10+N steel used, among others, for ocean engineering and hydrotechnical structures, which require underwater welding. It has been found from the CTS test results that the investigated steel is susceptible to cold cracking in the wet welding process.

Cold Cracking Of Underwater Wet Welded S355G10+N High Strength Steel

Gdansk University of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Welding Engineering, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland

Advances in Materials Science

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Water as the welding environment determines some essential problems influencing steel weldability. Underwater welding of high strength steel joints causes...

Cold Cracking Of Underwater Wet Welded S355G10+N High Strength Steel

Published Online: Oct 14, 2015

Page range: 48 - 56

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/adms-2015-0015

Keywords
Underwater welding, wet welding, high strength steel, weldability, cold cracking

© 2015 D. Fydrych et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Public License.

Cold Cracking Of Underwater Wet Welded S355G10+N High Strength Steel

Published Online: Oct 14, 2015

Page range: 48 - 56

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/adms-2015-0015

KeywordsUnderwater welding, wet welding, high strength steel, weldability, cold cracking

© 2015 D. Fydrych et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Public License.

Keywords
Underwater welding, wet welding, high strength steel, weldability, cold cracking