The welding buckling distortion in thin plates of high-strength steels AH36 seriously affected the manufacturing accuracy and was difficult to be completely eliminated by means of correction after welding. TTT was an effective method to control buckling distortion during thin plates welding. A TTT platform was built with induction heating as the auxiliary heat source to conduct conventional welding and TTT experiments in thin plates of high-strength steels AH36 . After the joints were cooled to room temperature, welding distortion was measured by the three-coordinate measuring machine. The maximum relative out-of-plane deformation is as 23.88 mm under conventional welding, and decreases to 13.68 mm under TTT processes. Subsequently, the FE model of butt welded joint was established and thermal elastic plastic FE analyses were carried out for conventional welding and TTT processes. The results are in good agreement with the measured ones. Meanwhile, the maximum relative out-of-plane deformation could be reduced to 4.42 mm with modifying the temperature during TTT processes. Finally, the causes of welding buckling distortion and the control mechanism of TTT during thin plates welding processes with high-strength steels AH36 were clarified based on the welding inherent strain theory. The thermal tensile action formed by the auxiliary heat source changes the constraint degree of the base materials on the weld, which results in less compressive plastic strain during the heating processes and more tensile plastic strain during the cooling processes, so that the inherent strain at the weld is decreased. The tendon force is reduced by 26.4%. The reduction of instantaneous deformation decrease the transverse inherent bending moment by 95.2%, which reduces the initial disturbance resulting in welding buckling distortions, so as to further control the welding buckling distortion of thin plate structures.
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