PSI - Issue 47

898 V. Giannella et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 47 (2023) 892–900 Author name / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2019) 000 – 000 7 slight discrepancies between the numerical energy supplied to the weld bead and that experimentally supplied by the welding machine. Finally, it is worth noting that, by using the results of the current simulation, a thermal-stress analysis could be performed so as to predict further results as residual stresses and deformations produced by the process (see Sepe et al. (2021c)) or estimate the fatigue life of the welded joint (see Giannella et al. (2018)).

Fig. 6. Experimental vs. numerical temperature distributions at thermocouple position 1.

Fig. 7. Experimental vs. numerical temperature distributions at thermocouple position 2.