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"She is cracking up Captain and there is not a
decent weld to see or "Weld failures in ships"By Dr Jasper Graham-Jones
Support from Dr Brian Mellor, Engineering Materials Consultancy Service,
Southampton University.
The opinions expressed are purely personal and do not represent any other person or organisation.
Dept of Mechanical and ManufacturingEngineering, University of Portsmouth
Anglesea Road, Portsmouth, PO1 3DJ
Tel: 023 92 842113
Fax :023 92 842351
email [email protected]
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Ship Failure & Loss of Life
x 1930s Welded ships, Manual Metal Arc
x Liberty Ship failures. WW2 +250 ships fractured or
cracked; 19 of these broke completely in two.
x Fracture Mechanics comes of age!
x Factors:- stress concentration, high tensile stress,
relatively low temperature, susceptible steel
Titanic (14 April 1912) Weak rivets andBrittle steel hull.
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Esso
Manhattan
29 March
1943 at the
entrance to
New York
Harbour
John P. Gaines,
November 1943. Vessel
broke in two off Shumagin
Aleutians With the loss often lives
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Schenectady,
A liberty Tanker,
16 January 1943,
split in two while
moored in calmwater.
Only 24 hrs old
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Post-War Ship Failures
x Tyne Bridge, Kow loon Bridge, Longitudinal beam cut
and weld either side of the bulk head frame 65. Poor
welding design, laminar tearing, fractures, etc?
x
Derbyshire 9/10 Sept 1980, associated with poorstructural strength, and poor design of hatch covers.
(doubled skinned)
x Torrey Canyon, Ran aground (19th March 1967)
x Costly Billions: insurance and life expectancyx Many Lives, Environmental Damage: who is affected?
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Welding Methods
x Manual Metal Arc (Most common in ship building)
x MIG (Easy to use, but not as portable)
x TIG (Mix of above, but harder)
x Submerged metal arc.x Gas welding
x Solid phase bonding (explosive welding, Friction Stir)
x
Electron beam & Laser Welding
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Welding Defects
x Solidification cracking
x Lack of fusion
x Lack of penetration
x Porosity (Hydrogen)x Distortion
x Fatigue, Corrosion, Embrittlement, etc.
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Welded Joints & Defects
Butt Joint
Lap Joint
Tee, joint
Corner Joint
Edge weld
Fillet and
Full
Penetration
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Ship Failure 2
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Tanker 1 Failure
x Force 8 gale in the Indian Ocean, land 800 mile.
x Noise & vibration at the bow
x Witness:- Irish deckhand, Mast Lights
Bow disappears???What would YOU do next?
Sailed 1200 miles in reverse to destination in India.
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No.1
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No.2
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Photo 37, Side longitudinal 27 Cracked through(1) Fatigue crack at toe of Bracket
(2)Longitudinal detached (cracked or never connected?)
1
2
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Photo 38 Bracket at side longitudinal 29, Note renewed bracket is smaller than
original. Remains of original bracket are visible
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Not renewed and L26 fractured at weld
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Highly corroded non-renewed longitudinal (see photo 46)
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What happen?
x Many experts sent to photograph and assess ship.
x Design change to a fuel efficient engine thus no bow
fuel tank installed.
x
Fuel tank considered as a stressed member.x Corrosion Fatigue, cracks originating from the welds on
one side. Rapid crack growth, considerable distortion,
and final fracture on far side.
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Tanker Failure 2
x Background, Super tanker 250,000 Tonnes, 20,000 T
water ballast, Oil cargo just unloaded.
x Greek owners, Japanese built, USA standards, British
Insurer (Lloyds), repaired in Singapore.
x Failed in Amsterdam, Holland at Shell Oil terminal.
Loud bang and ship moved and strained on its ropes
from the quay side.
Shi F il
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Ship Failures
30m
etreFracturein
25-3
0mmSteelplate
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Failure
x Initial unexpected soft grounding
x Loud bang, and ship movement caused by 20kT of
water.
x
Dry dock: 30m (90ft) crack through 25-30 mm thicksteel plate.
x Many internal weld failures and buckled steel members.
x Repair cost 10 million, not including loss of trade
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What happened?
x 30m brittle fracture, then escaping ballast water causes
bent steel sections and failed welds.
x Material of poor quality. (low temperature brittleness,
sulfide inclusions)
x Weld failures, Examine Standards, for general ships.
Fillet or Fully Penetrating welds
Fracture in bottom plating
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Fracture in bottom plating
of oil tanker
18 m fracture in 25 mm thick bottom plating.
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Inside theb ll
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centre ballasttank
Port transverse web frames.
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Initial examination of ship.
x Design specified fully penetration welds.
x Although corrosion within standard (25% thickness).
x Many welds pulled out, many crack originate from
welds.
x Fillet welds not as strong, but easier and quicker to do
compared to fully penetrating.
x Ship has fillet welds????
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Selection of samples for laboratory
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p yexamination
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Setup Metallurgical Inspection
x
Visit site, cut out 3/4 Tonne of samples.x Take before and after photos, detail exact locations and
record on samples. Securely pack in box for shipping
x Set up lab, dry storage, logging samples, photographs,
agree samples with all parties.x Layout in lab and agree which smaller samples to cut
from the main samples. Concentrated on fracture path.
Agree cutting method as some methods can damage
samples. (Make sure samples are not cleaned)
Laboratory
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Laboratory
investigation
Underside of face plate on
transverse web just above
diagonal stiffener.
Transverse section at S. 16 mm gap
between transverse web and face
plate has been filled with weldmetal.
Laboratory
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y
investigation
continued
Transverse section through
diagonal stiffener and upper andlower sections of transverse web.
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Results
x
Lack of penetration and fusionx Mix of old and new repair welds
x Considerable weld build up to conceal poor fit up.
x Some cracked welds not repaired (old fatigue marks)
and painted over (paint deep inside cracks).
x Although outside profile good, large pores at weld
centre.
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Weld details
x Poor fit up cured by filling gap with weld metal.
x Misalignment of upper and lower sections of transverseweb.
x True weld leg lengths as small as 2 mm. Corrosionreduced effective weld throat size.
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Weld details continued
x Weld between upper and lower sections of transverseweb should be a butt weld not a fillet weld.
x This had no effect on the static strength of the joint but
the fatigue strength of a butt weld is 1.6 times that of awell prepared fillet weld.
Welded structures fracture
l ld FE d l
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Welds and structural failurealong welds so FE models
must replicate this.
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Use sub-models of weld details
Load elongation on 5 mm
element corresponding to fillet
weld leg length.
Input into main FE model.
Pull off failure of fillet welded bracket.
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Local Materials Properties
Use an instrumented
microhardness technique with a
spherical indenter to derive the
stress-strain curve for localregions of a weld.
Modelling of complex failuresequences in welded structures
using FE is hampered by lack of
local material properties.
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Conclusions continued
x
The failure mode is only part of the story.
x Need to answer question, What is special about thispart?.
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Tanker 2 failure conclusions
x Poor build and repair, (likely known to owner??)x Uneven loading with full ballast tanks.
x Soft mud grounding. (Owners requested non-grounding
berth)
x Ship unable to support own weight and that of ballast.
x Longitudinal split allowing water to rush out
(10KT/min) causing further damage.
x Some damage possible from dry dock.
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Inspection, What happened?
x One man (US) to inspect a 250,000 t Tanker, built inJapan. Language problem?
x Ship access, individual weld inspection problems? Poor
inspection in difficult conditions.
x Why cant ships be inspected like planes????
x MONEY (Cost to benefit)
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Overview
x
Ship losses are primarily caused by a number of events,perhaps even minor when considered individually in
isolation, which conspire together in a sequence which
leads inevitably to the loss
x
Failures will occur, and are required to be managed(Failure Management)
x There will be the inevitable differences of opinion
depending upon particular points of view and interest.
x You have to strive throughout to treat all possiblescenarios equally in terms of effort, time and depth of
analysis.
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Areas of Future Research
x Structural DesignModelling & Analysis of loading
x Life Cycle Risk Management
Corrosion rates, time variable stresses
x Production Technology
Good fit-ups & Production design detail
x People Dynamics & concepts of risk assessment.
Groupthink & Risky shift phenomenon'
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Seacat propeller failure.
x New in service, Vibration from propeller.x Dry dock, Half a blade missing (1 of 3).
x Initial inspection, fatigue and brittle overload failure.
x
Detailed inspection, small pore, and welding heataffected zones around fatigue initiation sites.
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Cause of propeller failure
x Overlay welded to repair a casting problem.x Poor finishing and NDT (Dye penetrate).
x Small pore, stress concentration, leading to fatigue
initiation.
x Crack growth, followed by multiple fatigue initiation
sites and rapid crack growth around welds
x Possible damage or excessive wear to bearings.
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Metallurgical testing methods
x Eye, magnifying glass, (cracks, distortion)x Stereo low powered microscope. Cut samples, polish
smooth (stain) and examine for heat affected zones.
x High power microscope, Electron beam microscope
(Fatigue striations, inclusions, etc).
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Local materials properties
Use an instrumented microhardness technique with aspherical indenter to derive the stress-strain curve for local
regions of a weld.