Correlative Analysis Between Tensile Properties and Tool Rotational Speeds of Friction Stir Welded Similar Aluminium Alloy Joints

Author(s):  
Velaphi Msomi ◽  
Busiswa Tracey Jantjies

Friction stir welding (FSW) is considered as the new joining technique which does not involve fumes like any traditional joining techniques. The attainment of good weld depends on proper combination of FSW parameters, and this combination varies with the materials that are being welded. The tool rotational speed is known as the most critical parameter towards the generation of heat required to produce the weld in friction stir welding. This parameter plays an important role in restructuring the stir zone. The variation of this parameter may yield certain results which are dependent on the type of materials being welded. This paper reports on the impact of the rotational speed variation on the tensile properties of AA6082-T6 joints. The rotational speed was varied while keeping all the other welding parameters constant. The analysis was performed comparatively on the specimens that were sampled from different locations of the joint. The joints produced through the rotational speed of 600 rpm showed good tensile properties compared to joints produced through other rotational speeds.

2011 ◽  
Vol 295-297 ◽  
pp. 1929-1932
Author(s):  
Yi Min Tu ◽  
Ran Feng Qiu ◽  
Hong Xin Shi ◽  
Xin Zhang ◽  
Ke Ke Zhang

In order to obtain better understanding of the friction stir weldability of the magnesium alloy and provide some foundational information for improving mechanical properties of retardant magnesium alloy joints. A retardant magnesium alloy was weld using the method of friction stir welding. The influence of welding parameters on the strength of the joint was investigated. The maximum strength of 230 MPa was obtained from the joint welded at the tool rotational speed of 1000 r/min and welding speed of 750 mm/min.


Author(s):  
Anganan K ◽  
Narendran RJ ◽  
Naveen Prabhu N ◽  
Rahul Varma R ◽  
Sivasubramaniyam R

Friction stir welding (FSW) is an innovative solid state joining technique and has been employed in industries for joining aluminum, magnesium, zinc and copper alloys. The FSW process parameters such as tool, rotational speed, welding speed, axial force, etc play major role in deciding the weld quality. A mathematical modeling was developed based on experiments to predict the tensile strength of dissimilar FSW aluminum alloys. The maximum tensile strength of 210 MPa can be obtained at the tool rotational speed of 1100 rpm, welding speed of 35mm/min and an axial load of 7 kN is the Optimum welding parameters.


Friction stir welding has proven to be the most promising solid state joining process. It can be used to get high weldability in joining of high strength aerospace aluminium alloys and other metallic alloys which used to be low with traditional fusion welding process. This paper emphasises on finding the optimum process parameter for friction stir welding of dissimilar aluminium alloy AA6061 to AA5183 using multi criteria decision making method (MCDM). Friction stir welding was done at different tool rotational speed and transverse velocity and mechanical properties such as tensile strength, percentage elongation and hardness were studied for each weld specimen. Finally optimization was done using TOPSIS (Techniqueof Ordered Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution). The result revealed that the tool rotational speed of 1200 rpm and welding speed of 80mm/min are the optimum welding parameters.


Author(s):  
K. Anganan ◽  
R.J . Narendran ◽  
N Naveen Prabhu ◽  
R Rahul Varma ◽  
R Sivasubramaniyam

Friction stir welding (FSW) is an innovative solid state joining technique and has been employed in industries for joining aluminum, magnesium, zinc and copper alloys. The FSW process parameters such as tool, rotational speed, welding speed, axial force, etc play major role in deciding the weld quality. A mathematical modeling was developed based on experiments to predict the tensile strength of dissimilar FSW aluminum alloys. The maximum tensile strength of 210 MPa can be obtained at the tool rotational speed of 1100 rpm, welding speed of 35mm/min and an axial load of 7 kN is the Optimum welding parameters.


2017 ◽  
Vol 79 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Ethiraj ◽  
T. Sivabalan ◽  
C. Vijaya Raghavan ◽  
Shubham Mourya

Friction stir welding (FSW) is solid state joining process with more advantages than that of fusion welding. Nylon -6 is one of the engineering plastics used widely in various industrial applications. The main aim of this research work is to investigate the effect of tool rotational speed and tool traversing speed on the mechanical and microstructural properties of the nylon-6 butt welded joints made by FSW. The FSW process was performed in a computer numerically controlled (CNC) vertical milling machine using a cylindrical tool with threaded pin made of heat treated high carbon high chromium (HCHCr) steel. The tensile testing and microscopic examinations were carried out to study the mechanical and microstructural properties of the welded joints. In visual inspection, it is observed that the excessive flashes are observed on either sides of the weld line in all cases. From the results, it is observed that the maximum tensile properties are achieved in a joint made which is approximately 18% and 26% of the parent material’s ultimate tensile strength (UTS) and yield strength (YS) respectively with the tool rotational speed 1200 rpm and the tool traversing speed of 30 mm/min within the experimented process parameters. Overall, the tensile properties of the welded joints made using the experimented process parameters are very much lower than the parent material.


Author(s):  
A. J Amroliya ◽  
Dr. D. B Jani ◽  
Dr. R. K Shukla

Friction stir welding is an emerging solid state joining process which is used to join metals and alloys having low weldability. In this research work experimental analysis has been performed on FSW for AA 6061 and MgZ31B A. Effect of FSW parameters like tool rpm, tool transverse speed and tool pin profile are investigated. A vertical milling head is used to produce FSW joints. Hot work tool steel (H13) is used as a tool material and total 3 number of tools are manufactured namely as cylindrical pin, tapered pin and square pin. Tool transverse feed of 10, 15 and 20 mm/min and tool rotational speed of 800, 1000 and 1200 rpm are taken for the study. A full factorial method is used for three numbers of parameters and their three levels and total 27 numbers of experiments are conducted keeping all other parameters constant. As a response weld tensile strength of joints are tested according to ASME-IX. Response surface method (RSM) and Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is adopted for the statistical analysis. Chi square method is used for the validation purpose and a strong match has been found between predicted and actual value of weld tensile strength of joints. As a conclusion it has been derived that feed of 15 mm/min, tool rotational speed of 1200 rpm and tapered pin profile gives better weld strength for the given experimental conditions. Furthermore research can be carried out on Bobbin type tool, numerical analysis and multi pass of FSW tool.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S3) ◽  
pp. 1625-1629

Friction stir welding has proven to be the most promising solid state joining process. It can be used to get high weldability in joining of high strength aerospace aluminium alloys and other metallic alloys which used to be low with traditional fusion welding process. This paper emphasises on finding the optimum process parameter for friction stir welding of dissimilar aluminium alloy AA6061 to AA5183 using multi criteria decision making method (MCDM). Friction stir welding was done at different tool rotational speed and transverse velocity and mechanical properties such as tensile strength, percentage elongation and hardness were studied for each weld specimen. Finally optimization was done using TOPSIS (Techniqueof Ordered Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution). The result revealed that the tool rotational speed of 1200 rpm and welding speed of 80mm/min are the optimum welding parameters


2019 ◽  
Vol 969 ◽  
pp. 720-726
Author(s):  
Ajay Kumar Revelly ◽  
B. Rajkumar ◽  
V. Swapna

The main aim of the present topic is friction stir welding (FSW) of Aluminium HE-30, which shows that improved microstructures, strong weld and with less of defects. In the other hand, an attempt was made to correlate the welding parameters and mechanical properties. In the present investigation four rotational speeds of 1000 rpm, 1200 rpm, 1400 rpm and 1600 rpm with travelling speed of 30 mm/min. and tool geometry (straight cylindrical) was chosen. It was observed that the tool rotational speed is a sensitive parameter to decide the ultimate tensile strength and yield strength of the present material. Similarly, the hardness of Al plates is improved at the weld zone. Hence, it is suggested that to consider a parameter such as welding tool rotational speed, travelling speed and materials in selecting the welding methods of sound joints, because it influences the microstructure and mechanical properties in various applications. In the present study, non-destructive tests are also confirmed the defective nature of the weld zone of Al plates.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 7684-7694
Author(s):  
Majid Farhang ◽  
Omid Sam-Daliri ◽  
Mohammadreza Farahani ◽  
Azadeh Vatani

The objective of this study was to investigate the influences of the main parameters of friction stir welding (FSW) on the residual stresses remained in the FSW of Al 2024-T6. The main parameters were tool rotational speed and tool transverse speed. The effect of these parameters on the residual stresses was studied in both finite element simulation and hole drilling strain gauge measurement. The results showed a good agreement between the numerical results and the experimental outcomes. The change in transverse speed from 25 to 31.5 mm/min resulted in increase of longitudinal residual stresses in welding centerline in which the longitudinal residual stress was increased at the tool rotational speed of 1120 rpm and 1600 rpm about 12.5% and 2.67%, respectively. The results showed that at the low rotational speed, the strain rate had the most effect on the residual stresses whereas at the high rotational speed, some residual stress was released due to the generated heat in the weld zone.


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