Manufacturing Technology 2023, 23(3):366-379 | DOI: 10.21062/mft.2023.046

Gas Metal Arc Welding Input Parameters Impacts on Weld Quality Characteristics of Steel Materials a Comprehensive Exploration

Tesfaye Negash Wordofa ORCID..., Perumalla Janaki Ramulu ORCID...
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Center of Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Adama Science and Technology University, Ethiopia

To be competitive, present-day manufacturing industries strive to optimize manufacturing parameters and produce quality products consistently. From various manufacturing processes, welding is one of the key processes for joining a large variety of indispensable products including the production of automotive body in white structures, assembly of large metal civil structures, nuclear installations, pressure vessels, aircraft, and spacecraft materials, etc. In order to get the level of quality requirement of welded components, an optimized combination of welding parameters plays a vital role. However, the realizations of this optimum combination of welding parameters for all processes in different conditions are the big challenge for the manufacturing industry. The current study presents a critical assessment of the various researches in the fields of gas metal arc welding of steel to create a descriptive picture of the effect of input parameters on weld quality characteristics. To realize this, intensive literature reviews and comparisons of different results have been made, and findings have been incorporated. Where there are differences in trends of parameter effects, proper explanations and justifications have been drawn. As a result, it was found that arc voltage, welding current, wire feed rate, and travel speed affect the quality of the weld (mainly penetration, bead height, bead width, and heat affected zone) significantly compared with other parameters considered in the context of this paper. This shows that the proper setting of the optimum combination of welding parameters specifically, arc voltage, welding current, wire feed rate, and travel speed yield the desired quality level of the weldment.

Keywords: GMAW, Welding parameters, Weld quality characteristics, Steel materials

Received: September 3, 2022; Revised: June 21, 2023; Accepted: June 22, 2023; Prepublished online: June 22, 2023; Published: July 5, 2023  Show citation

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Wordofa TN, Ramulu PJ. Gas Metal Arc Welding Input Parameters Impacts on Weld Quality Characteristics of Steel Materials a Comprehensive Exploration. Manufacturing Technology. 2023;23(3):366-379. doi: 10.21062/mft.2023.046.
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