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Issued from two successive RD studies in 1991–1995 for shipbuilding in France, a simplified method of numerical simulation of arc welding has been developed and validated on samples in full scale executed inside the shipyard. The metallurgical concept of the methodology is based on two main characteristic diagrams of iron-carbon steel: metallurgical phase transformation diagram and thermal dilatation diagram. In this paper, the simplified methodology is described with on its basic assumptions.

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