Influência da adição de recobrimentos a base de PVC e de alumínio no metal depositado com eletrodos revestidos E-7018

Abstract

The shielded metal arc welding (SMAW) presents competitive advantages that become this union process as one of most important in industrial scale. However, the humidity absorption is a problem that requires special cares to stock the electrodes, to avoid the mechanical properties degradation. Trying to control the H, PVC films and aluminum ink coatings were applied in E-7018 electrodes to weld ASTM SA36 steel. In this paper was realized a comparative study among different welded samples: E7018, pure and with coating. The molten zone characterization of these samples is a sequential continuation of the works developed by RAMOS (2015) and SOUZA (2017). Through the optical and scanning electron microscopies, it was observed that the molten zone microstructure, in all samples, is composed by acicular, polygonal and Widmanstatten ferrite, upper bainite, ferrite-carbine aggregates and, in some regions, MA micro-constituent. The EBSD technique application permitted detect that the coating was responsible to refine the monten zone microstructure, comparing with the pure condition, to form AF grains in greater quantity and smaller. In all cases, the acicular ferrite aspect ratio variated between 2 and 10. Also though the EBSD, it was possible to note that the coating provided higher MA microconstituent formation and this condition could reduce the steel toughness.