1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to dissimilar metal welds and its manufacturing method, and more particularly, to a product obtained by welding and integrating two different materials of large welded structures such as the turbine rotor, and its manufacturing method.
2. Background Art
Some large welded structures are laterally placed and welded due to limitations of deformation of their shapes, work space, and the like. Examples of the structures include a turbine rotor to be welded. In general, a large steam turbine rotor has a large shaft length. In addition, a high-pressure-side rotor is required to have a high-temperature creep rupture strength, and a low-pressure-side rotor is required to have a tension strength and toughness. Therefore, in the case of forming a steam turbine rotor using one member, it has been difficult to obtain characteristics that satisfy these demands. In this regard, there is known a manufacturing method in which a high-pressure-side rotor is made of a material excellent in high-temperature creep rupture strength; a low-pressure-side rotor is made of a material excellent in tension strength and toughness; and these materials are integrated by welding.
However, when the rotor is welded, a heat affected zone (HAZ) is formed in the parent material of the rotor. This HAZ includes a rapid cooling structure region with a high hardness and an over aging region with a low hardness. Accordingly, a strength uneven region is generated in the HAZ. In the case where the rotor is formed of a combination of the same materials by welding, the unevenness of the strength is alleviated by performing stress relief annealing after welding. Meanwhile, in the case where the rotor is formed of a combination of dissimilar metals, heat treatment temperatures required for the stress relief of the rotor are different. For this reason, the effect of alleviating the unevenness of the strength caused by heat treatment cannot be expected.
Accordingly, as disclosed in JP Patent Application Publication No. 2001-123801, JP Patent Application Publication No. 2000-64805, and JP Patent Examined Application Publication No. 6-78721, for example, there are known methods of forming a buttering portion to achieve relaxation of the chemical composition of each of a rotor and a weld on a groove face of the rotor, before welding the rotor in the case of welding the rotor made of dissimilar metals. These methods use a weld having a chemical composition located between the rotor and the welding material, and perform padding welding on the buttering portion by tungsten inert gas arc (TIG) welding, metal inert gas (MIG) welding, submerged arc welding (SAW), or the like.
JP Patent Application Publication No. 2007-278064 proposes a method of performing butt welding using a buttering material and forming a buttering portion from a welding metal.
In the dissimilar metal welds including the buttering portion disclosed in JP Patent Application Publication No. 2001-123801, JP Patent Application Publication No. 2000-64805, and JP Patent Examined Application Publication No. 6-78721, a laminated direction of a buttering is perpendicular to the plate thickness of the parent material and thus coincides with a stress loading direction, leading to deterioration in strength reliability. Further, the buttering is applied to an end (plane) of a parent material. As a result, the shielding effect is reduced and the oxygen concentration of the welding metal is increased, leading to deterioration in strength.
Further, in the dissimilar metal welds including a buttering layer disclosed in JP Patent Application Publication No. 2007-278064, the bottom of the buttering is located in a butt portion with great dilution between the welding metal and the parent material, which deteriorates the strength reliability. Furthermore, the outer peripheral end of the buttering portion is located in the vicinity of an opening of a welding groove, which produces the same conditions as those for the buttering to be subjected to padding welding on the plane as disclosed in JP Patent Application Publication No. 2001-123801, JP Patent Application Publication No. 2000-64805, and JP Patent Examined Application Publication No. 6-78721. Thus, there is a problem of deterioration in strength due to an increase in oxygen concentration of the welding metal.
To solve the above-described problems, the present invention has an object to provide dissimilar metal welds which are formed by welding two parent materials having at least one of different compositions and different refining conditions and which include a buttering portion with a small variation in strength distribution in a plate thickness direction, and a manufacturing method of the dissimilar metal welds.
To achieve the above-described object, the present inventor(s) has (have) researched the composition distribution of butt welding metals to obtain a buttering portion. As a result, it has turned out that a butt portion corresponding to the bottom of the buttering portion is formed by mixing two parent materials to be butted against the welding metals, and has a high dilution ratio. Further, it is obvious that in a welding opening corresponding to a surface layer portion of the buttering portion, the oxygen concentration is higher than that of a central portion and the strength reliability is lowered.
On the basis of the above results, according to an aspect of the present invention, dissimilar metal welds are formed by welding two parent materials having at least one of different compositions and different refining conditions, through a buttering for alleviating mismatch between one of the different compositions and the different refining conditions of the two members and through a welded metal for joining one of the parent materials and the buttering. The buttering is formed of welding metals laminated in a plate thickness direction, and a dilution ratio of the buttering with the parent materials is equal to or less than 50%.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a manufacturing method of dissimilar metal welds formed by welding two parent materials having at least one of different compositions and different refining conditions, through a buttering for alleviating mismatch between one of the different compositions and the different refining conditions of the two members and through a welded metal for joining the buttering and one of the parent materials, the manufacturing method including at least the steps of performing butt welding on a dummy material formed by increasing a groove depth by providing a member on a side of a bottom of a welding groove, and on the parent materials, by using the buttering; and processing a groove within a welding metal formed of the buttering.
According to the present invention, buttering is formed of welding metals laminating in a plate thickness direction, and the dilution ratio of the bottom of the buttering portion and the oxygen concentration of the surface layer portion of the buttering portion are low, which makes it possible to set the dilution ratio to 50% or less. Consequently, it is possible to provide an effect of preventing the deterioration in strength of the welding metal due to an increased in oxygen concentration, and improving the strength reliability of large welded structures such as the turbine rotor.
Examples will be described below as embodiments for carrying out the present invention.
Example 1 of the present invention will be described below with reference to
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Example 1 uses a tungsten-inert gas (TIG) welding with a heat input amount of 20 KJ/cm. Alternatively, other methods such as submerge ark welding (SAW), shielded metal ark welding (SMAW), metal inert gas (MIG) welding, laser welding, and CMT (Cold Metal Transfer) may also be used.
The bottom of the dummy material 21 extends beyond an end of the parent material 20 so as to overlap the parent material 20. In Example 1, the plate thickness of the bottom of the dummy material 21 extending to the side of the parent material 20 is 3 mm, but the plate thickness may be equal to or more than 3 mm. When the plate thickness is less than 3 mm, a portion having a high dilution ratio unfavorably remains in the buttering 22 to be subsequently processed. In this case, however, the plate thickness of the bottom of the dummy material 21 is preferably as small as possible as long as the plate thickness is 3 mm or more, and a maximum length of 10 mm is sufficient.
The length of the bottom of the dummy material 21 extending to the side of the parent material 20 is 10 mm from the center of the groove, but a length of 3 mm or more is sufficient. A bottom length of less than 3 mm is not favorable, because there is a problem in that a hole is generated in the shape of the butting groove portion, or the thickness of the groove portion is reduced with the result that the groove portion is melted down. Note that the bottom length of the dummy material 21 is preferably as small as possible as long as the bottom length is equal to or larger than 3 mm from the center of the groove, and a maximum length of 15 mm from the center of the groove is sufficient.
Referring next to
In the case of performing padding welding on the plane shown in
(dilution ratio)=1−(volume of welding metal for first layer welding)/(volume of fusion zone by first layer welding) (1)
According to Formula 1, the dilution ratio is determined by the welding metal for the first layer welding and the volume of the fusion zone obtained by the first layer welding. Here, the dilution ratios in various groove shapes are estimated.
(dilution ratio)=1−y/(2z+y) (2)
In Formula 2, since “x” has no relation with the estimation of the simple model, the dilution ration was estimated using “y” and “z” as variables. The actual “y” is in the range of 1 to 3 mm under the conditions for forming the welding metal. Further, the actual “z” is in the range of 1 to 3 mm under the condition of forming a sound penetration. As a result of estimating the dilution ratio within the variance range of the actual “y” and “z”, the range was 0.6 to 0.7. Thus, when the dilution ratio is high, the characteristics of the buttering portion deteriorate to be lower than the originally intended value. Therefore, it is preferable that the dilution ratio be at least 50% or less, and preferably 25% or less.
On the other hand, the buttering 22 shown in
Example 2 according to the present invention will be described with reference to
Example 3 according to the present invention will be described with reference to
Example 4 according to the present invention will be described with reference to
Next, the following table shows exemplary materials of the two different parent materials of the dissimilar metal welds according to the present invention. Here, Examples 1, 3, and 4 described above, as well as Examples 5 to 8 are illustrated.
Examples of a combination of parent materials in the dissimilar metal welds according to the present invention may include a combination of an Ni-base superalloy and 12%-Cr-based steel according to Examples 1 and 2, a combination of an Ni-base superalloy and 1%-Cr—Mo—V-based steel according to Example 3, and a combination of an Ni—Fe-base alloy and 12%-Cr-based steel according to Example 4, as well as a combination of an Ni—Fe-base alloy and 1%-Cr—Mo—V-based steel (Example 5), a combination of 12%-Cr-based steel and 1%-Cr—Mo—V-based steel (Example 6), a combination of 12%-Cr-based steel and 3-4%-Ni—Cr—Mo—V-based steel (Example 7), and a combination of 1%-Cr—Mo—V-based steel and 3-4%-Ni—Cr—V-based steel (Example 8). The manufacturing flows shown in Examples 1 to 4 are also applicable to Examples 5 to 8, and the same operation and effect can be achieved.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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2011-115134 | May 2011 | JP | national |