Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of AISI 1106 /AISI 1045 Steels Drawn Arc Stud Welded Joints

Arc stud welding process was used to join a fully threaded low carbon steel AISI 1106 stud to medium carbon steel AISI 1045 plate, the effects of welding current 200, 400 A and the welding time 0.1 to 0.6 step 0.1 s on the microstructure and mechanical properties were investigated, additional parameters of adding 0.1, 1 g SiC powder and applying nano carbon layer to the welding area also included. The results demonstrate that the preferred stud welding process parameters for this system was 400 A with 0.4 s welding current and time, respectively, which has a maximum tensile strength of 583 MPa. The joints fabricated with ash and nano carbon coated at preferred welding parameters showed a slight reduction in tensile strength. The fracture of the tensile test specimen consists of three failure modes including of interface fracture between stud and plate surface due to incomplete melting at low processing parameter, pullout fracture which is featured by a hole in the plate surface and fracture at the stud shank instead of the weldment interface or heat affected zone. The microstructure of the stud and plate are characterized by equiaxed grain of ferrite and pearlite with small amount of ferrite, respectively. The fusion zone consists of fine grain of ferrite and perlite. The hardness of the fusion zone was recording 132 HV which it slightly higher than the stud hardness 128 HV and lower than that of plate of 164 HV.