A MINI PROJECT

REPORT
“INVESTIGATIONON OF
MECHANICAL
PROPERTIES OF DISIMILAR
WELDS
BY USING DISIMILAR MATERIAL
OF MILD STEEL AND
STAINLESS
STEEL”
 CONTENTS
• Experiment Methodology
• Result
• Conclusion
 Experiment methadology

• Welding experiment was designed to investigate the joining

of austenitic stainless steel (304L ) to mild steel plates (4
mm thickness). All welding process was performed using
arc welding and the welding current used was 100 ampere.
The electrodes used were stainless steel welding electrode
(AWS: E304L) and mild steel welding electrode (AWS:
E6013). The work pieces were cut according to dimensions
given below:
• For tensile test, the welded parts were machined to a
tensile specimen shape as illustrated in Figure 2. The
specimen was pull using a Universal Testing Machine (UTM)
to obtain information on yield strength and tensile strength.
 RESULTS

• Figures and show the tensile test samples using stainless steel and mild steel electrodes
respectively. Figure shows all welded samples were fractured at the mild steel base metal
because of stainless steel type 304 L had higher mechanical strength than mild steel .
• Similarly, as shown in Figure , welded samples using mild steel electrode also fractured at the
mild steel base metal. Table 2 and Table 3 show the value of mechanical properties of welded
samples using stainless steel and mild steel electrodes respectively. The highest value of
mechanical properties in terms of yield strength (598) and tensile strength (760) is given by
the welded samples using stainless steel electrodes.
• On the other hand the lowest value of yield strength (542) and tensile strength (668) is given
by the welded samples using mild steel electrode. During the tensile test, all samples start
cracking from mild steel base metal when the stress reaches the yield point and continue
with necking process. After a while, the stress imposed on the test sample reaches the
maximum strength and all samples fracture at the mild steel base metal side
• . None of the welded samples fractured either at stainless steel type 304 base metal, fusion
metal or heat affected zone (HAZ). However, the mechanical properties of the joint strength
are acceptable for both welded samples using stainless steel electrode+
•r mild steel electrode. The joint strength improved because of the HAZ region had gained
o
heat treatment (cooling and heating) during welding process. It was reported that the
variation in mechanical properties across the weld can be attributed to several factors such
as residual stresses, grain size, phase composition
Sample No. Yield Point (Mpa) Tensile
Strength(Mpa)

1 535 645

2 542 668

AVERAGE 539 656.5

1 :Mild steel as filler material

Sample No. Yield Point (Mpa) Tensile

Strength(Mpa)

1 590 730

2 598 760

AVERAGE 594 745

2 :Stainless steel as filler material

 CONCLUSION

• 1.The results of this investigation have shown that stainless steel

304 can be welded to mild steel using either stainless steel welding
electrode: AWS/ASME: E304 L or mild steel welding electrode:
AWS: E6013.
• 2. The yield strength and tensile strength of welded samples using
mild steel welding electrode were slightly lower than welded
samples using stainless steel welding electrode, however, both
types of welded samples exhibited optimum strength of the welded
joint.
• 3. All welded samples fractured at mild steel base metal indicated
the regions of stainless steel base metal, fusion zone and heat
affected zone are stronger than mild steel base metal.