Electric heating – Metal heating – By arc
Patent
1998-07-28
2000-06-27
Shaw, Clifford C.
Electric heating
Metal heating
By arc
219 61, 21912511, B23K 923
Patent
active
060809604
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention concerns a method of jointing a first part made of low alloy constructional steel and a second part made of austenitic stainless steel by heterogeneous welding.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Nuclear reactors in general and pressurized water nuclear reactors in particular include components, such as the reactor containment vessel, steam generators and the pressurizer which are made of low alloy high strength constructional steel lined with a layer of stainless steel, and connected by one or more connecting tubes to one or more austenitic stainless steel pipes constituting parts of the primary circuit of the reactor, for example.
Steam generators of pressurized water nuclear reactors include a water box having a hemispherical wall constituting the lower part of the steam generator in which are two connecting tubes welded to two pipes of the primary circuit of the reactor.
The connecting tubes of the steam generator, which are made of constructional steel lined with stainless steel, must be butt-welded to an austenitic stainless steel pipe.
It is therefore necessary to make a heterogeneous welded joint between the connecting tube and the pipe, the heterogeneous weld being effected by depositing a filler metal into a groove formed between the connecting tube and the pipe or between the connecting tube and an intermediate austenitic stainless steel connector.
Before effecting the heterogeneous weld between the connecting tube and the pipe or the intermediate connector, it is necessary to deposit a thick layer of stainless steel or nickel alloy onto an end part of the connecting tube constituting one surface delimiting the groove into which the filler metal is deposited during welding.
A process of this kind, which necessitates preparation of the areas of the parts to be jointed after they are machined, is difficult and necessitates a relatively long execution time.
The welded joint is effected by juxtaposing weld beads in the form of successive layers superposed in the direction of the thickness of the parts, this direction being substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the welded joint. Each of the layers which occupies all of the width of the groove between the two parts, in a direction perpendicular both to the longitudinal direction and to the direction of the thickness of the parts, is made up of a possibly large number of juxtaposed weld beads, depending on the average width of the groove.
If the TIG process is used, each of the weld beads is obtained by melting a filler wire by means of an electrode fed with a particular current at a particular voltage. The filler metal wire which is fed at a fixed speed into the weld area is melted by the electric arc formed between the electrode and the parts to be welded in the groove.
It is also possible to use other welding processes such as the covered electrode process.
Obtaining successive layers of filler metal having a substantially constant thickness combined with very high quality and a good consistency of the filler metal requires totally accurate control of welding conditions during the deposition of each of the weld beads.
Prior art heterogeneous welding jointing processes are therefore complex and their execution times can be very long.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention is to propose a method of jointing by heterogeneous welding a first part made of constructional steel and a second part made of austenitic stainless steel, consisting in disposing machined ends of the parts face-to-face to constitute a welding groove extending in a longitudinal direction between the parts and depositing a filler metal in the welding groove in successive layers superposed in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the groove corresponding to the thickness of the parts, by melting a wire fed at a particular speed by an electric arc formed between an electrode fed with a particular welding current at a particular voltage and the parts to be welded which are separated, in a dire
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Dunand-Roux Leon
Fournier Yves
Peigney Alain
Framatome
Shaw Clifford C.
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