<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/10004892" mdate="2016-05-03 00:00:00"> <author>A. A. Ugla</author> <title>Characterization of Metallurgical and Mechanical Properties of the Welded AISI 304L Using Pulsed and NonPulsed Current TIG Welding</title> <pages>488 - 495</pages> <year>2016</year> <volume>10</volume> <number>4</number> <journal>International Journal of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10004892</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/112</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>The present paper aims to investigate the effects of the welding process parameters and cooling state on the weld bead geometry, mechanical properties and microstructure characteristics for weldments of AISI 304L stainless steel. The welding process was carried out using TIG welding with pulsednonpulsed current techniques. The cooling state was introduced as an input parameter to investigate the main effects on the structure morphology and thereby the mechanical property. This paper clarifies microstructure mechanical property relationship of the welded specimens. In this work, the selected pulse frequency levels were 5500 Hz in order to study the effect of low and high frequencies on the weldment characteristics using filler metal of ER 308LSi. The key findings of this work clarified that the pulse frequency has a significant effect on the breaking of the dendrite arms during the welding process and so strongly influences on the tensile strength and microhardness. The cooling state also significantly affects on the microstructure texture and thereby, the mechanical properties. The most important factor affects the bead geometry and aspect ratio is the travel speed and pulse frequency. </abstract> <index>Open Science Index 112, 2016</index> </article>