scholarly journals Cold-Rolling Strain Hardening Effect on the Microstructure, Serration-Flow Behaviour and Dislocation Density of Friction Stir Welded AA5083

Metals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zainuddin Sajuri ◽  
Nor Fazilah Mohamad Selamat ◽  
Amir Hossein Baghdadi ◽  
Armin Rajabi ◽  
Mohd Zaidi Omar ◽  
...  

5083 aluminium (Al) alloy materials have extensive structural applications in transportation industries because of their high strength-to-weight ratio and corrosion resistance. However, under conventional fusion weldings, these materials are limited by their porosity, hot cracking, and distortion. Herein, friction stir welding (FSW) was performed to join a similar AA5083 alloy. A post-weld cold-rolling (PWCR) process was applied on joint samples at different thickness-reduction percentages (i.e., 10%, 20%, and 40%) to identify the effect of strain hardening on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the friction-stir-welded joint of AA5083 while considering the serration-flow behaviour at stress–strain curves and dislocation density of the post-weld cold-rolled (PWCRed) samples. FSW induced a 20% reduction in the tensile strength of the joint samples relative to the base metal. PWCR also reduced the average grain size at the nugget zone and base metal because of the increase in plastic deformation imposed on the samples. Furthermore, PWCR increased the dislocation density because of the interaction among dislocation stress fields. Consequently, the tensile strength of the friction-stir-welded joint increased with the increased cold-rolling percentage and peaked at 403 MPa for PWCRed–40%, which significantly improved the serration-flow behaviour of stress–strain and welding efficiency up to 123%.

Author(s):  
Masaaki Kimura ◽  
Akira Yoneda ◽  
Masahiro Kusaka ◽  
Koichi Kaizu ◽  
Kazuhiro Hayashida ◽  
...  

Abstract To obtain dissimilar joint for easily making multi-material structures, the characteristics of friction welded joint between ductile cast iron (FCD400) and 5052 Al alloy (A5052) was investigated. The relatively high tensile strength of joint was obtained when that was made with a friction speed of 27.5 s−1, a friction pressure of 20 MPa, a friction time of 1.5 s, and a forge pressure of 270 MPa, respectively. However, this joint had approximately 77% in the tensile strength of the A5052 base metal and that was fractured at the weld interface. Although the weld interface had no intermetallic compound layer, the fractured surface at the A5052 side had some graphite particles that were supplied from the FCD400 side. To improve the joint strength, the graphite particles were reduced from the weld faying surface at the FCD400 side by decarburization treatment. The joint had approximately 96% in the tensile strength of the A5052 base metal and that was fractured between the A5052 side and the weld interface. The joint with high tensile strength as well as the possibility improving the fractured point of that were obtained when those were made with opportune friction welding condition and no graphite particles at the weld faying surface of the FCD400 side.


2011 ◽  
Vol 291-294 ◽  
pp. 833-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Feng Xu ◽  
Jin He Liu ◽  
Dao Lun Chen ◽  
Guo Hong Luan ◽  
Jun Shan Yao

Microstructures, tensile properties and work hardening behavior of friction stir welded (FSWed) AA2219-T62 aluminum alloy (in its one-third bottom slice of a 20 mm thick plate) were evaluated at different strain rates. While the yield strength was lower in the FSWed joint than in the base metal, the ultimate tensile strength of the FSWed joint approached that of the base metal. In particular the FSW resulted in a significant improvement in the ductility of the alloy due to the prevention of premature failure caused by intergranular cracking along the second-phase boundary related to the presence of the network-like grain boundary phase in the base metal. While stage III and IV hardening occurred after yielding in both base metal and FSWed samples, the FSW led to stronger hardening capacity and higher strain hardening exponent and rate due to the enhanced dislocation storage capacity associated with the microstructural change after FSW. The fracture surface of the FSWed joint was mainly characterized by dimples and tearing ridges along with micropores.


2018 ◽  
Vol 877 ◽  
pp. 98-103
Author(s):  
Dhananjayulu Avula ◽  
D.K. Dwivedi

In this study the effect of process parameters on mechanical and microstructural properties of similar AA6082-T6 joints produced by friction stir welding was investigated. Different samples were produced by varying the transverse welding speeds of the tool from 19 to 75 mm/min and a fixed rotational speed of 635 rpm. A more uniform hardness values in the nugget zone were observed at 48 mm/min welding speed. The lowest hardness values were recorded on nugget zone at all the welding speeds. The increase in welding speed increases ultimate tensile strength and reaches maximum and further increase in welding speed results decrease in tensile strength were observed. The welded joint has highest joint efficiency (52.33 %) obtained at the welding speed of 48 mm/min. Similarly with the increase in welding speed decrease in the percentage elongation were recorded.


2010 ◽  
Vol 638-642 ◽  
pp. 214-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woong Seong Chang ◽  
Heung Ju Kim ◽  
Sung Wook Kim

In attempts to improve the performance of dissimilar joints between AZ31 Mg alloy and different Al alloys, solid state joining processes such as Magnetic Pulse Welding (MPW) and Friction Stir Welding (FSW) were applied for minimizing the formation of brittle intermetallic phases. MPW process has been concentrated mainly on round section tube to tube and tube to bar welds. Mg alloy AZ31 has been successfully welded to pure Al A1070 as well as to Al alloy A3003. Tensile test clearly showed the MPW welds were stronger than the weaker of the base metal so failure occurred in aluminum base metal. While FSW process for the dissimilar joint between AZ31B/A6061 alloys with a thickness of 2mm revealed optimum weldability under the conditions of travel speed of 0.8mm/sec and tool rotation speed of 850rpm. For the sound dissimilar joint, the maximum tensile strength of 179 MPa, which was about 80 % of the Mg base metal tensile strength, has been obtained.


Author(s):  
TE Abioye ◽  
H Zuhailawati ◽  
AS Anasyida ◽  
SP Ayodeji ◽  
PK Oke

Due to loss of structural strengthening at temperatures beyond 250°C, heat-treated aluminium alloys (e.g. AA 6061-T6) weldments are usually characterized with poor mechanical properties including hardness, tensile and impact strengths. In this work, friction stir weldments of AA 6061-T6 reinforced with the additions of SiC, B4C and Al2O3 particles at the joints were produced and investigated for improved hardness, tensile strength and impact strength over the unreinforced weldment. The results showed that the entire reinforced welded joint exhibited improved hardness because of the enhanced metal matrix grain refinement and inherent high hardness of the reinforcement particles. B4C particle addition produced hardest joint of about 81% of the base metal hardness (∼114 HV0.3). The impact energies of the SiC (16.9 J), B4C (16.5) and Al2O3 (12.2 J) reinforced weldments are closer to that of the base metal (18.6 J) compared with the unreinforced weldment (9.6 J). The reinforced weldments showed no significant improvement over the tensile strength of the unreinforced weldment. B4C and SiC reinforcements produced the highest improvements in the hardness (at the joint) and impact strength of the AA 6061-T6 friction stir weldments, respectively.


2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 5804-5817
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Sabry

It is expected that the demand for Metal Matrix Composite (MMCs) will increase in these applications in the aerospace and automotive industries sectors, strengthened AMC has different advantages over monolithic aluminium alloy as it has characteristics between matrix metal and reinforcement particles.  However, adequate joining technique, which is important for structural materials, has not been established for (MMCs) yet. Conventional fusion welding is difficult because of the irregular redistribution or reinforcement particles.  Also, the reaction between reinforcement particles and aluminium matrix as weld defects such as porosity in the fusion zone make fusion welding more difficult. The aim of this work was to show friction stir welding (FSW) feasibility for entering Al 6061/5 to Al 6061/18 wt. % SiCp composites has been produced by using stir casting technique. SiCp is added as reinforcement in to Aluminium alloy (Al 6061) for preparing metal matrix composite. This method is less expensive and very effective. Different rotational speeds,1000 and 1800 rpm and traverse speed 10 mm \ min was examined. Specimen composite plates having thick 10 mm were FS welded successfully. A high-speed steel (HSS) cylindrical instrument with conical pin form was used for FSW. The outcome revealed that the ultimate tensile strength of the welded joint (Al 6061/18 wt. %) was 195 MPa at rotation speed 1800 rpm, the outcome revealed that the ultimate tensile strength of the welded joint (Al 6061/18 wt.%) was 165 MPa at rotation speed 1000 rpm, that was very near to the composite matrix as-cast strength. The research of microstructure showed the reason for increased joint strength and microhardness. The microstructural study showed the reason (4 %) for higher joint strength and microhardness.  due to Significant   of SiCp close to the boundary of the dynamically recrystallized and thermo mechanically affected zone (TMAZ) was observed through rotation speed 1800 rpm. The friction stir welded ultimate tensile strength Decreases as the volume fraction increases of SiCp (18 wt.%).


Author(s):  
Sanjeev Verma ◽  
Vinod Kumar

Aluminium and its alloys are lightweight, corrosion-resistant, affordable and high-strength material and find wide applications in shipbuilding, automotive, constructions, aerospace and other industrial sectors. In applications like aerospace, marine and automotive industries, there is a need to join components made of different aluminium alloys, viz. AA6061 and AA5083. In this study friction stir welding (FSW) is used to join dissimilar plates made of AA6061-T6 and AA5083-O. The effect of varying tool pin profile, tool rotation speed, tool feed rate and tilt angle of the tool has been investigated on the tensile strength and percentage elongation of the welded joints. Box-Behkan design, with four input parameters and three levels of each parameter has been employed to decide the set of experimental runs. The regression models have been developed to investigate the influence of welding variables on the tensile strength and elongation of the welded joint. It is revealed that with the increase in welding parameters like tool rpm, tool feed rate and tilt angle of the tool, both the mechanical properties increase, reach a maximum level, followed by a decrease with further increase in the value of parameters. Amongst different types of tool pin profiles used, the FSW tool having straight cylindrical (SC) pin profile is found to yield the maximum strength and elongation of the welded joint for different combinations of welding parameters. Multiple response optimization indicates that the maximum UTS (135.83 MPa) and TE (4.35%) are obtained for the welded joint fabricated using FSW tool having SC pin profile, tilted at 1.11° and operating at tool speed and feed rate of 1568 rpm and 39.53 mm/min., respectively.


2011 ◽  
Vol 189-193 ◽  
pp. 3266-3269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Hua Chen ◽  
Peng Wei ◽  
Quan Ni ◽  
Li Ming Ke

Titanium alloy TC1 and Aluminum alloy LF6 were jointed by friction stir welding (FSW), and the influence of process parameters on formation of weld surface, cross-section morphology and tensile strength were studied. The results show that, Titanium and Aluminum dissimilar alloy is difficult to be joined by FSW, and some defects such as cracks and grooves are easy to occur. When the rotational speed of stir head(n) is 750r/min and 950r/min, the welding speed(v) is 118mm/min or 150mm/min, a good formation of weld surface can be obtained, but the bonding of titanium/aluminum interface in the cross-section of weld joint is bad when n is 750r/min which results in a low strength joint. When n is 950r/min and v is 118mm/min,the strength of the FSW joint of Titanium/Aluminum dissimilar materials is 131MPa which is the highest.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akshansh Mishra ◽  
Abhishek Kumar Sharma ◽  
Hardik Kapoor ◽  
Jaspreet Singh ◽  
Krishna Kumar

Friction Stir Welding process is a novel green solid state joining process for soft materials such as aluminium alloys. The weld quality is governed by the proper selection of parameters such as forge force rotational speed of the tool, welding speed, backing plate material etc. Thermal boundary condition at the bottom of the work piece plays an important role for obtaining the sound joint. The backing plate material governs these thermal conditions. In this case study, high thermal diffusivity backing plate material which consisted of AA2099 was used for joining of the plates of Structural Aluminium alloy. It was observed that the tensile strength was improved.


Author(s):  
Mohd Ridha Muhamad ◽  
Sufian Raja ◽  
Mohd Fadzil Jamaludin ◽  
Farazila Yusof ◽  
Yoshiaki Morisada ◽  
...  

Abstract Dissimilar materials joining between AZ31 magnesium alloy and SPHC mild steel with Al-Mg powder additives were successfully produced by friction stir welding process. Al-Mg powder additives were set in a gap between AZ31 and SPHC specimen's butt prior to welding. The experiments were performed for different weight percentages of Al-Mg powder additives at welding speeds of 25 mm/min, 50 mm/min and 100 mm/min with a constant tool rotational speed of 500 rpm. The effect of powder additives and welding speed on tensile strength, microhardness, characterization across welding interface and fracture morphology were investigated. Tensile test results showed significant enhancement of tensile strength of 150 MPa for 10% Al and Mg (balance) powder additives welded joint as compared to the tensile strength of 125 MPa obtained for welded joint without powder additives. The loss of aluminium in the alloy is compensated by Al-Mg powder addition during welding under a suitable heat input condition identified by varying welding speeds. Microstructural analysis revealed that the Al-Mg powder was well mixed and dispersed at the interface of the joint at a welding speed of 50 mm/min. Intermetallic compound detected in the welding interface contributed to the welding strength.


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