Resumo Este trabalho enfoca o desenvolvimento dos aços API para tubulações desde o aço API
API 5L X80 pipes, built with high strength-low alloy steel, are specified for the construction of pipelines to transport oil and oil products under high pressure, with consequent reduction in weight of the tubes. The most often pipeline construction used for welding circumferential pipe field in Brazil is the SMAW process, for root and filling passes. An alternative welding process to the root pass is the GMAW-STT® process, while the filling passes can be welded with FCAW-G (Flux Cored Arc Welding with Gas shielding) and FCAW-S (Flux Cored Arc Welding with Self shielding). This combination of processes (GMAW-STT® + FCAW) is presented as a promising substitute for the SMAW process, bringing high-quality weld metal deposited and high productivity. The objective of this work is to study the weldability of the Brazilian API 5L X80 pipe, with 508 mm (20 inches) in diameter and 19 mm (3 / 4 inch) thick, comparing the two combinations of circumferential welding processes: GMAW-STT® + FCAW-G and GMAW-STT® + FCAW-S. The welding was done with the ER80S-G wire in the root pass and process GMAW-STT® using pure CO 2 as shielding gas. The filling passes were made with the wires E101T1-GM-H8 for FCAW-G and E91T8-G for FCAW-S. Preheat and interpass temperatures were kept constant, respectively 150 °C and 250 °C for both welding processes combinations. The joints were characterized using: chemical analysis, magnetic saturation, optical metallography and scanning electron microscopy and mechanical tests such as: Vickers hardness, tensile, bending, nick-break and Charpy V test at 0 o C. It was followed API 1104 standard as reference to the basic technical requirements for the qualification of a welding procedures. The results showed that, according to the criteria of the API 1104 standard, only one combination of the two processes was approved. The other combination was reproved in the nick-break test due to lack of fusion occurred in one of the quadrants in the root pass. The GMAW-STT® process at the root pass requires a specific skill of the welder.
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