Abstract: Recent years, downward welding is used widely more and more in petrochemical, pipeline engineering and so on. However, with the increase in volume of weld pool during downward welding, weld pool becomes instable because of influence of gravity, even affecting the good bead shape. Weld pool mechanical behavior and the control strategy of the weld pool forming is analyzed and researched, on the base, a method is proposed in the welding that the Lorenz force produced to overcome bad effect of gravity component when the weld pool is exposed to exterior high frequency alternative magnetic field. The numerical simulation on electromagnetic field, eddy current field and electromagnetic force in the interior of weld pool are implemented. 45 degree and 90 degree downward welding experiments are carried out to verify the theory analysis. Experiment results show that it is feasible for using eddy current technology to overcome weld pool instable resulted by gravity component in downward metal active gas(MAG) welding.

Key words: Eddy current, High frequency magnetic field, Metal active gas welding, Weld pool, High-speed train Window Sound transmission loss Low noise design Lightweight