Luis Angel Lázaro Lobato

Dr. Luis Angel Lázaro Lobato

Department of welding, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán de Ocampo, Mexico
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2Years (2025-Present)

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23 July 2025 in Metals
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LLLuis Angel Lázaro Lobato
Luis Angel Lázaro Lobato
GGGildardo Gutiérrez-Vargas
Gildardo Gutiérrez-Vargas
Francisco Fernando Curiel LopezFrancisco Fernando Curiel Lopez
Francisco Fernando Curiel Lopez
VMVictor Hugo Morelos
Victor Hugo Morelos
Maria del Carmen RamírezMaria del Carmen Ramírez
Maria del Carmen Ramírez
Jose Jaime Taha-TijerinaJose Jaime Taha-Tijerina
Jose Jaime Taha-Tijerina
The microstructure and mechanical properties of welded joints of API 5L X-52 steel plates cladded with AISI 316L-Si austenitic stainless steel were evaluated. The gas metal arc welding process with pulsed arc (GMAW-P) and controlled arc oscillation were used to join the bimetallic plates. After the root welding pass, buttering with an ERNiCrMo-3 filler wire was performed and multi-pass welding followed using an ER70S-6 electrode. The results obtained by optical and scanning electron microscopy indicated that the shielding atmosphere, welding parameters, and electric arc oscillation enabled good arc stability and proper molten metal transfer from the filler wire to the sidewalls of the joint during welding. Vickers microhardness (HV) and tensile tests were performed for correlating microstructural and mechanical properties. The mixture of ERNiCrMo-3 and ER70S-6 filler materials presented fine interlocked grains with a honeycomb network shape of the Ni–Fe mixture with Ni-rich grain boundaries and a cellular-dendritic and equiaxed solidification. Variation of microhardness at the weld metal (WM) in the middle zone of the bimetallic welded joints (BWJ) is associated with the manipulation of the welding parameters, promoting precipitation of carbides in the austenitic matrix and formation of martensite during solidification of the weld pool and cooling of the WM. The BWJ exhibited a mechanical strength of 380 and 520 MPa for the yield stress and ultimate tensile strength, respectively. These values are close to those of the as-received API 5L X-52 steel.