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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multi-electrode submerged arc welding method capable of controlling a bead width without considerably changing welding conditions and electrode arrangement, of increasing the bead width to prevent surface defects, such as undercut, and of forming beads in an excellent shape evenly on both sides of the weld line.SOLUTION: An N-th electrode arranged at the backmost part in the welding progress direction and an (N-1)th electrode arranged immediately before the N-th electrode are arranged on both the left side and the right side of the weld line; a distance between a wire tip end position and the weld line on the steel sheet surface of the N-th electrode and a distance between the wire tip end position and the weld line on the steel sheet surface of the (N-1)th electrode are both set within a range between 5 and 15 mm, and an electrode-to-electrode distance in the welding progress direction of the N-th electrode and the (N-1)th electrode is set within a range between 0 and 20 mm; and at the same time, a phase difference θbetween an (N-2)th electrode arranged immediately before the (N-1)th electrode and the (N-1)th electrode, a phase difference θbetween the (N-1)th electrode and the N-th electrode, and a phase difference θbetween the (N-2)th electrode and the N-th electrode are all set within a range between 60 and 300°.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To evaluate a low-temperature crack of a seam weld zone without using a high-strength UOE steel pipe itself.SOLUTION: A test piece 1 for welding evaluation test is formed by butt-joining two flat plates 2a, 2b formed using the same material as the high-strength UOE steel pipe, and includes a butt joint simulation part 2 having grooves 7, 8 formed on both surfaces 2c, 2d along a linear butt connection region, and restriction plates 3, 4 in a flat-plate shape provided on one surface 2c of the butt joint simulation part 2 in such a way that the restriction plates 3, 4 are parallel to a formation direction of the groove 7 on the surface 2c.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tube stock for high strength thick-walled welded bend tube having superior toughness at low temperature for an entire portion of welded metal which is as-welded, or as induction-hardened, or subjected to heat treatment, namely, induction hardening and tempering or tempering. SOLUTION: In the contents of the welded metal, amounts of Ti, V, Al, O, N, B and Ni, in particular, satisfy the following component ranges and equations (1) and (2). Ti: 30 to 400 ppm, V: 20 to 500 ppm, Al: 20 to 500 ppm, O:500 ppm or less, N: 80 ppm or less, B: 3 to 60 ppm and Ni: 3.0 mass% or less, [N]-0.087[Ti]-0.03[V]-9≤0...(1) and 0.17≤[B]/G≤2.5...(2) wherein, G=0.15[O]-0.113[Al]-0.0345[Ti]+1. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a submerged arc welding method for a steel material which is favorably used for the pipe-making welding of a steel pipe of large diameter such as a UOE steel pipe and a spiral steel pipe. SOLUTION: When performing the submerged arc welding for a steel material from inner and outer sides, the welding condition is set so that the inner surface weld metal sectional area S 1 and the outer surface weld meal sectional area S 2 satisfy inequalities (1), (2), (3). (1) 0.40≤(S 1 +S 2 )/t 2 ≤0.80; (2) S 1 /t 2 ≤0.35; and (3) S 2 /t 2 ≤0.45; wherein t denotes the thickness (mm) of the steel material; S 1 denotes the inner surface weld metal sectional area (mm 2 ), except that of a portion overlapping an outer surface weld metal after the welding of the outer side; and S 2 denotes the outer surface weld metal sectional area (mm 2 ). COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electroslag welding method capable of improving the toughness of a weld metal and also of inhibiting variation of toughness when bonding a diaphragm to the inside of a box column composed of four skin plates by electroslag welding.SOLUTION: There is provided an electroslag welding method for bonding a diaphragm 2 to the inside of a box column composed of four skin plates 1. The electroslag welding is conducted by: providing a clearance between the upper face of the skin plate 1 and the lower face of the diaphragm 2; contacting the backing strips 3 on the facing two sides of the diaphragm 2; contacting the lower face of the backing strip 3 on the upper face of the skin plate 1; and contacting on the upper face of the skin plate 1 between the backing strips 3, the lower face of a thin steel sheet which contains 0.10 mass% or less of C, 0.008 mass% or less of N, and has a thickness of 1 to 5 mm.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flux-cored wire that is used for welding by a multi-electrode SAW (submerged arc welding) method with three or more electrodes, which is applied to secure HAZ (heat affected zone) toughness, and that is excellent in economic productivity.SOLUTION: The flux-cored wire is used for multi-electrode submerged arc welding where three or more electrodes are used, and has a wire diameter of 3.2 mm or less. The flux-cored wire for submerged arc welding contains, by mass% with respective to the total mass of the wire, 0.04-0.22% C, 0.1-0.6% Si, 1.0-3.0% Mn, 4.0-10.0% Ni, 3.0% or less Mo, 0.01-0.25% Ti, 0.01-0.5% REM, and the balance Fe with inevitable impurities in the total of a steel shell and/or a filler flux, wherein a filling factor of the filler flux relative to the total mass of the wire is 10-40 mass%.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flux cored wire for submerged arc welding capable of extremely effectively reducing the amount of diffusible hydrogen in a welding metal and a multi-electrode submerged arc welding method using the same.SOLUTION: The flux cored wire for submerged arc welding is a wire containing flux for use in submerged arc welding, and the flux filled in the wire has a composition containing 0.1 mass% or more and less than 10 mass% of a powdered fluorine compound whose melting point is 1,000°C or less.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multi-electrode submerged arc welding method, which enhances toughness of a welded part without increasing the amount of wire to be melted with low heat input and can obtain a deep penetration and a wide bead width.SOLUTION: The diameter of a wire of a first electrode at the leading head in welding proceeding direction is determined to 2.0 to 3.2 mm, two electrodes are provided on both sides of a welding line at the tail end of the welding proceeding direction, the position of the wire tip on the surface of the steel sheets of the two electrodes is arranged on the same line that is perpendicular to the welding line, the distance W (mm) between the position of the wire tip and the welding line is determined to 5 to 20 mm, and the distance M (mm) between the welding line and the position where the vertical line vertically drawn from the center of the top end of a contact tip intersects the surface of the steel sheet satisfies M≥W.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flux-cored welding wire which is suitably used for small diameter multiple electrodes submerged arc welding of 3 or more electrodes, has a diameter of 3.2 mm or less, and is excellent in low temperature toughness of a welded metal.SOLUTION: The flux-cored welding wire has the diameter of 3.2 mm or less, and the total of a steel-made shell and a flux component comprises, in wire total mass%, 0.04-0.22% of C, 0.1-0.6% of Si, 1.0-3.0% of Mn, ≤10.0% (including 0%) of Ni, ≤3.0% (including 0%) of Mo, 0.1-1.0% of Mg, 0.01-0.25% of Ti, and 0.1-0.5% of REM, and further comprises as needed one or more of 0.1-0.5% of BO, ≤0.5% of Cu, ≤1.0% of Cr, ≤0.1% of V, ≤0.05% of Nb and the balance of Fe with unavoidable impurities. A mass ratio (filling rate) of a metal base flux component to a wire total mass is 10-40%.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flux-cored welding wire with a diameter of ≤3.2 mm which is favorably used for fine diameter wire multiple electrode submerged arc welding with three or more electrodes and excellent in the low-temperature toughness of a welded metal.SOLUTION: The flux-cored welding wire has the wire entire composition containing by mass, 0.04-0.22% C, 0.1-0.6% Si, 1.0-3.0% Mn, 0.01-0.25% Ti, 0.01-0.5% REM, and further containing one or two kinds of ≤10.0% Ni, ≤3.0% Mo, and further containing 0.1-0.5% BOand ≤0.5% Cu as necessary, and the balance Fe with inevitable impurities, wherein the mass ratio (the filling ratio) of the metallic flux component to the entire wire mass is 10-40%.