Development of a physical simulation method of steel welds for fatigue crack propagation studies, on heat affected zones

In order to study the fatigue crack propagation in the Highly Affected Zone (HAZ) of structural steel weld joints, test specimens of 90 mm x 49.5 mm x 7 mm in size were used to carry out the simulations, for which a special procedure was required to be developed in the Gleeble system. By doing so, t...