JP2007313530A - Structure of weld part of cylindrical member - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the structure of a weld part capable of enhancing strength of a joined portion of axle cases or other cylindrical members with each other. <P>SOLUTION: In the structure of the weld part for performing the annular welding of one layer or a plurality of layers in the butt welding of base materials constituted of axle cases or other cylindrical members to each other, an annularly continuous weld parts are constituted of a plurality of welded portions, a plurality of connection parts in which ends of the respective welded portions overlap each other, and the length of the adjacent connection parts is set in a range of three to five times the thickness of the base materials. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a welded part structure that improves the strength of a joint part between an axle case and other cylindrical members.

Conventionally, in the butt welding of the cylindrical members 21 and 22 such as the welding joint between the longitudinal ends of the case body of the axle case and the spindle, as shown in FIG. Since welding is performed only from the outside, the unwelded portion 25 remains on the inner surfaces of the cylindrical members 21 and 22, and therefore the plate thickness L2 at the welded portion 20 is shorter than the plate thickness L1 of the base material. This is a cause of a decrease in strength of the weld 20.
In order to prevent this, a backing material (ring-shaped gold) 26 as shown in FIG. 6 is added to the inside of the joint portion of the cylindrical members 21 and 22, or one of the joints ( In the illustrated example, a joint shape in which 21) and a backing material 26 'are integrated is used, and when welding is performed from the outside of the cylindrical member, the backing materials 26 and 26' are welded to form a cylindrical shape as a base material. An unwelded portion of the members 21 and 22 is eliminated and the joint efficiency is set to 1.
In such a case, the thickness of the welded portion 20 is the same as that of the base materials 21 and 22, but the gap between the backing materials 26 and 26 'and the base materials 21 and 22 acts as a crack, and the bottom of this gap Stress concentrates on 27 and 27 '.

Further, by welding the cylindrical members 21 and 22 and the ring-shaped backing materials 26 and 26 ', the diameters of the backing materials 26 and 26' and the weld metal 20 shrink in the process of cooling the generated welding heat. In this deformation, as shown in FIG. 8, compressive stress remains on the outer surface side of the welded portion 20, and tensile stress remains on the inner surface side of the welded portion 20.
This tensile residual stress after welding (schematically shown by a one-dot chain line in FIG. 8) S and the bottoms 27 and 27 ′ of the gaps between the backing materials 26 and 26 ′ and the base materials 21 and 22 are generated. There is a possibility that stress concentration acts synergistically to reduce the strength of the weld 20 and cause cracks.
Therefore, the applicant of the present invention, in the axle case of Japanese Patent Application No. 2004-262302, joined at least one joining end portion of the case body and the spindle so that the vertical dimension is smaller than the adjacent portion continuous to the joining end portion. The strength of the part is improved. Further, in the welded part structure and welding method of Japanese Patent Application No. 2005-161378, a contact part that comes into contact with the gold at at least one end of the cylindrical member, and an inclination that is inclined in a direction away from the gold with respect to the contact part. And a stepped portion that is continuous with the inclined portion and spaced apart from the abutment, and a welding beat is provided so as to cover the contact portion and a part of the inclined portion. Strength is improved.
Japanese Patent Application No. 2004-262302 Japanese Patent Application No. 2005-161378

The present applicant has created the present invention as a result of diligent research and development, and its main problem is to reduce the residual stress by providing a plurality of welding joints at a predetermined interval, thereby reducing the welding joint of the cylindrical member. It is to improve the strength.
Further, in the present invention, the thickness of the cylindrical member is reduced without reducing the strength of the welded joint of the cylindrical member, thereby reducing the weight of the part and saving the material cost.

In order to solve the above problem, the invention of claim 1
In the welded part structure in which one layer or a plurality of layers are welded annularly by butt welding of base materials made of cylindrical members,
A plurality of connecting portions in which the end portions of the respective welded constituent portions overlap each other are formed of a plurality of welded constituent portions that are continuously connected in an annular shape,
It is characterized in that the length of the adjacent connecting portions is set within a range of 3 to 5 times the thickness of the base material.
In the invention of claim 2,
In the welded part structure in which one layer or a plurality of layers are welded annularly by butt welding of base materials made of cylindrical members,
A plurality of connecting portions in which the end portions of the respective welded constituent portions overlap each other are formed of a plurality of welded constituent portions that are continuously connected in an annular shape,
A crossing angle between two straight lines connecting adjacent connecting portions and the center of the cylinder is set within a range of 30 to 60 degrees.
Furthermore, in the invention of claim 3,
The cylindrical member comprises a cylindrical portion at the end of the case body at the center of the case of a fully floating axle for medium and large trucks and a cylindrical spindle member, and the welded portion is the cylindrical portion and spindle of the case body. It consists of the butt welding part of members, It is characterized by the above-mentioned.

According to the present invention, it is possible to relax the tensile residual stress of the largest stress concentration portion generated on the inner surface side of the butt weld portion of the cylindrical member and widen the range of conversion to the compressive stress.
Therefore, for a load in which the welded part between the cylindrical members is bent in a certain direction, the tensile residual stress at the part where the strength becomes severer with respect to this load is completely reduced or converted to compression. By covering, the durability of the joint can be greatly improved.
On the other hand, when it is not necessary to improve the durability, it is possible to reduce the material and plate thickness of the cylindrical member while maintaining the same durability as the conventional one.
Therefore, in any case, the material cost can be reduced, especially when the plate thickness is reduced, the weight of the structural member can be reduced, and when applied to a vehicle member such as an axle case, the fuel consumption can be improved. Product value such as increase in quantity can be improved, and it can contribute to the improvement of the social environment through the reduction of material resources and fuel.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the welded part structure of a cylindrical member according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
In the conventional welding, as shown in FIG. 8, the welded portion 20 of the joint portion between the cylindrical members 21 and 22 as the base material is a single layer in which the start point 20 a and the end point 20 b are overlapped, and the welding discontinuous portion Is missing.

The welded portion 20 is cooled from two directions on both sides of the weld line after heat input (after welding), whereas the connecting portion P20 where the starting point 20a and the ending point 20b overlap is a single piece. Since the cooling is also performed from the two directions and the welding line extending direction of the welding end point 20b, the cooling is performed earlier than the portion where welding is continued.
For this reason, the residual stress S after cooling of the joint portion P20 is smaller than that of the continuous portion, and the stress concentration portion (see FIG. 6) at the bottom portion 27 of the gap between the base materials 21 and 22 and the backing material 26 is further increased. The tensile residual stress that lowers the strength is also reduced, and depending on the welding conditions, it may even become a compressive residual stress.

  Therefore, in the present invention, the welded portion to be welded in a single layer or a plurality of layers in an annular shape is formed by a plurality of welded constituent portions, and a plurality of joint portions that overlap at the end portions of the respective welded constituent portions are provided at predetermined intervals. As a result, the strength of the weld was improved.

  FIG. 1 shows a welding progress procedure in the welded part structure of Example 1 in which the backing material is omitted (indicated by the two-dot chain line on the outside in the figure) and residual stress on the inner surface side of the welded part (in the figure, on the inner side) It is a figure explaining S) which is typically shown with a dashed-dotted line, and backing material is abbreviate | omitting illustration (following, the same).

  In the welded part structure of Example 1 shown in FIG. 1, in the joint of butt welding in which a backing material as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 is added to a pair of cylindrical members, the welded part 10 formed in an annular shape is As the first welding component 1, a predetermined length from the first start point 1a to the first end point 1b in a certain direction (counterclockwise in the illustrated example) along the groove of the butt joint, Welding is performed up to a range in which the stress changing portion 11 is formed.

  Next, as the second welding component 2, a position overlapping with the first start point 1a is defined as a second start point 2a, and the first end point 1b is formed along the joint in the opposite direction (clockwise in the illustrated example). Welding is performed with the overlapping position as the second end point 2b, and the welded portion 10 is formed.

  The residual stress is from the first joint P1 where the first start point 1a and the second start point 2a overlap to the second joint P2 where the first end point 1b and the second end point 2b overlap. The change portion 11 is set to a length within a range of 3 to 5 times the thickness t of the base material (see FIG. 4).

  Here, when the distance between the residual stress changing portions 11 is less than 3 times the thickness t of the base material, the distance is too narrow to effectively reduce the tensile residual stress, and when it exceeds 5 times, the residual stress There is a drawback that the tensile residual stress cannot be reduced because the changed portion is divided and generated.

In this way, by setting the interval between the connecting portions to a predetermined length, a low residual stress range is continuously generated in the vicinity of each connecting portion, or a range that becomes a compressive residual stress is connected to a wide range. It becomes.
Therefore, the strength of the welded portion can be improved by disposing the residual stress changing portion 11 formed between the connecting portions so as to cover the severely stressed position of the welded joint of the cylindrical member serving as the base material.

  For example, as a cylindrical member that serves as a base material, when applied to a welding joint between a case body 6a provided at the center of an axle case 6 as shown in FIG. 9 and spindle members 6b welded to both ends thereof, Because the stress is severe at the bottom where tensile stress is generated by bending up and down, the ring-like bracket for brake mounting, etc., where the fillet is welded nearby, avoids welding all around, and the bottom side is 90 degrees or less. There is an example in which the range of 120 degrees is not welded.

However, if the spindle butt weld is not welded, the cross-sectional area to be joined is reduced and the strength is further lowered, and the internal gear lubricating oil leaks out, which is not practical.
Therefore, when the present invention is applied to the spindle welded portion of the axle case, it is preferable to form the residual stress changing portion 11 including a plurality of welded joint portions in the vicinity of the lowermost surface of the axle case.

  In the first embodiment, the case where the welded portion of the cylindrical member is a single layer and there are two joints at the welded part has been described. The same effect can be obtained even in the case of more than one part.

The welded part structure of Example 2 shown in FIG. 2 shows an example when the welded part 10 has a plurality of layers.
In this welded part structure, the first welding component 1 has a certain length in a certain direction (counterclockwise in the illustrated example) from the first starting point 1a to the first ending point 1b, that is, the residual stress changing part 11. It is welded to the place to form.
Next, as the second welding component 2, a second start point 2a of the second welding component is set at a position overlapping with the first end point 1b, and the direction opposite to the first welding component 1 (clockwise in the illustrated example). The second end point 2b is a position where the first start point 2a and the second start point 2a overlap with each other.

Next, as the third welding component 3, a third start point 3a of the third welding component is set at a position overlapping the second end point 2b, and the direction opposite to the second welding component 2 (counterclockwise) And a position overlapping the first start point 1a is set as a third end point 3b.
In this case, the residual stress changing portion is between the joint portion P1 where the first start point 1a and the third end point 3b overlap and the joint portion P2 where the first end point 1b, the second start point 2a and the third start point overlap. 11 and is set to a length within a range of 3 to 5 times the thickness of the base material (not shown).

In the welding structure of Example 3 shown in FIG. 3, an example in which the welded portion is one layer and there are three joint portions is shown.
In this welded structure, welding is performed from the first starting point 1a of the first welding component 1 to a certain length in a certain direction (counterclockwise in the illustrated example), that is, to a place where the first residual stress changing portion 11 is formed. Let it be the first end point 1b.

  Next, the second welding component is secondly positioned at a certain length from the first starting point 1a in the opposite direction (clockwise in the illustrated example), that is, to a position where the second residual stress changing portion 12 is formed. A start point 2a is set, and a second end point 2b is set by welding to a position overlapping the first start point 1a in a certain direction (counterclockwise in the illustrated example).

Next, the third start point 3a of the third welding component 3 is set at a position overlapping the first end point 1b, welded in a certain direction (counterclockwise in the illustrated example), and the second start point 2a. A third end point 3b is set at the overlapping position.
As a result, the third joint P3 between the second start point 2a and the third end point 3b, the second joint P2 between the first start point 1a and the second end point 2b, and the first end point 1b. And a first joint P1 between the first start point 3a and the third start point 3a.

In this case, an interval between adjacent connecting portions, that is, an interval P1-P2 between the first and second connecting portions becomes the first residual stress changing portion 11, and an interval P2-P3 between the second and third connecting portions. Becomes the second residual stress change portion 12, and each of the residual stress change portions 11 and 12 is set to a length within a range of 3 to 5 times the thickness of the base material.
In the above embodiment, there are three joints, but joints may be provided at three or more places.

  In the above embodiment, the interval between adjacent joints is set within a range of 3 to 5 times the thickness of the base material. However, in the present invention, as shown in FIG. It was confirmed that the same effect was also obtained when the crossing angle of the straight line connecting the changing portion) and the cylindrical center of the cylindrical member was in the range of 30 to 60 degrees.

  In the above-described embodiment, the case where the cylindrical members are butt-welded is illustrated. However, in the present invention, in the axle case such as the fully floating axle case for a large truck as illustrated in FIG. It can be applied to butt welding of the case main body, both cylindrical end portions of the case main body, and cylindrical spindle members at both ends, as well as other cases where various cylindrical members are butt welded. it can.

It is explanatory drawing which shows typically the welding progress procedure in the welding part structure of Example 1, and the residual stress of an inner surface side. It is explanatory drawing which shows typically the welding progress procedure in the welding part structure of Example 2, and the residual stress of an inner surface side. It is explanatory drawing which shows typically the welding progress procedure in the welding part structure of Example 3, and the residual stress of an inner surface side. It is explanatory drawing which shows the range of a residual stress change part typically. (A) is a figure which shows the butt welding which uses the conventional cylindrical member as a base material, (b) is the BB sectional drawing of (a). It is sectional drawing which shows the welding structure at the time of adding a backing material. It is sectional drawing which shows the welding structure at the time of integrally forming a backing material in one base material. It is explanatory drawing which shows typically the welding progress procedure in the conventional weld part structure, and the residual stress of an inner surface side. It is a front view which shows an axle case.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 1st welding component 1a 1st starting point 1b 1st ending point 2 2nd welding component 2a 2nd starting point 2b 2nd ending point 3 3rd welding component 3a 3rd starting point 3b 3rd ending point 6 Axle Case 6a Case body 6b Spindle part 10 Welded part 11 (First) residual stress change part 12 Second residual stress change part P1 First joint part P2 Second joint part P3 Third joint part

Claims (3)

In the welded part structure in which one layer or a plurality of layers are welded annularly by butt welding of base materials made of cylindrical members,
A plurality of connecting portions in which the end portions of the respective welded constituent portions overlap each other are formed of a plurality of welded constituent portions that are continuously connected in an annular shape,
A welded portion structure in which the length of adjacent connecting portions is set within a range of 3 to 5 times the thickness of the base material. In the welded part structure in which one layer or a plurality of layers are welded annularly by butt welding of base materials made of cylindrical members,
A plurality of connecting portions in which the end portions of the respective welded constituent portions overlap each other are formed of a plurality of welded constituent portions that are continuously connected in an annular shape,
A welded portion structure, wherein the crossing angle of two straight lines connecting adjacent connecting portions and the center of a cylinder is set within a range of 30 to 60 degrees. The cylindrical member is composed of a cylindrical portion at the end of the case body at the center of the case of a fully floating type axle for medium and large trucks, and a cylindrical spindle member, and the welded portion is the cylindrical portion of the case body and the spindle member. The welded portion structure according to claim 1, wherein the welded portion structure is composed of a butt welded portion.

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