Pre-heating temperature for butt welding

Fundamentals of preheating Heat Input

Preheating involves heating the base metal, It can be see that an increase of heat input
either in its entirety or just the region (Q) during welding permits a reduction of
surrounding the joint, to specific preheat temperature.
temperature, The preheat temperature.
Heating may be continued during the
welding
ldi process, but
b t frequently
f tl the
th preheat
h t
Calculation of preheat temperature
form's sufficient to maintain the desired
The effect of chemical composition
temperature through out the weld.
characterized by the carbon equivalent
(CET) ,the plate thickness (d),the hydrogen
Hydrogen scale content of the weld metal (HD), and heat
The hydrogen scale to be used for any arc input (Q) can be combined by the formula
weldingg p process depend
p mainlyy on the given below to calculate the preheat
diffusible hydrogen content. temperature:
The effect of hydrogen content, HD, of the
weld metal in accordance with ISO3690 on
pre-heat temperature can calculate using the
following expression: Graphical determination of preheat
temperature
The relationship between preheat
temperature and plate thickness, for
selected heat input and carbon equivalent
Combined thickness can be represented:
When heating a joint to be welded, the
EN1011 code requires that the combined
e (ºc)

thickness should be determined as the sum

preheat temperature

of parent metal thicknesses averaged over a

distance of 75 mm from weld line.

plate thickness (mm)

Legend: 1-preheat temperature
Base material 2-plate thickness
The influence of the chemical composition
on the cold cracking behavior of steel is If the carbon equivalent and heat input in
characterized by mean of carbon equivalent the diagram do not agree with the actual
(CET).The effect of carbon and other values, the inferred preheat temperature
individual alloying element is given by shall be corrected.
corrected A correction of 7.5
7 5ºC
C has
to be made for every 0.01% difference in
carbon equivalent. The correction for heat
input can obtained in expression noted
before.