scholarly journals Experimental Investigation of Friction stir Welding Using Hybrid Alloys : A Review

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

Friction stir welding is a solid state joining process which is used to join metals and alloys having low weldability .Study about the effect of FSW parameters like tool rpm, tool transverse speed and tool pin profile. A vertical milling head is used to produce FSW joints. In this study, solid state joining technology of friction stir welding (FSW) was carried out for Al and Mg butt joints and other dissimilar metals. This review article thoroughly highlights the influence of FSW working parameters on microstructure, mechanical properties. This effort not only sets eminent outcomes of the preceding research personnel but also proposes forthcoming guidelines for FSW of dissimilar metals.

Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is a topical and propitious solid-state joining process producing economical and strengthened joints of age-hardened and heat-treatable Aluminium Alloy AA 6082-T6. Mechanical and fractural behaviour of weldments were investigated in order to find crack initiation and necking on the weld zone thereby perceiving the complete behaviour of fracture occurred near the weld zone. Weldments are fabricated by employing four tool pin profiles namely MX-TRIVEX, A-SKEW, Three flat threaded and Concave shouldered MX-TRIFLUTE tools at various rotational speeds 1000 rpm, 1200 rpm and 1400 rpm at single traverse speed 25 mm/min. EXCETEX-EX-40 CNC wire cut EDM with 0.25 mm brass wire diameter has been employed to perform the extraction of tensile test specimens from the weldments according to ASTM E8M-04 standard. Tensile test was performed on elctromechanically servo controlled TUE-C-200 (UTM machine) according to ASTM B557-16 standards Maximum Ultimate Tensile Strength (UTS) of 172.33 MPa (55.5% of base material) and 0.2% Yield Stress (YS) of 134.10 MPa (51.5% of base material) were obtained by using A-SKEW at 1400 rpm, 25 mm/min and maximum % Elongation (%El) of 11.33 (113.3% of base material) was obtained at MX-TRIVEX at 1000 rpm, 25 mm/min. Minimum UTS of 131.16 MPa (42.30% of base material) and 0.2% YS of 105.207 MPa (40.46% of base material )were obtained by using Concave shouldered MX-TRIFLUTE at 1400 rpm, 25 mm/min. Minimum % El of 5.42 ( 54.2% of base material) was obtained by using A-SKEW at 1000 rpm, 25 mm/min.


Author(s):  
Yousef Imani ◽  
Michel Guillot

Invented in 1991, friction stir welding (FSW) is a new solid state joining technique. This process has many advantages over fusion welding techniques including absence of filler material, shielding gas, fumes and intensive light, solid state joining, better microstructure, better strength and fatigue life, and etc. The difficulty with FSW is in the high forces involved especially in axial direction which requires use of robust fixturing and very stiff FSW machines. Reduction of FSW force would simplify implementation of the process on less stiff CNC machines and industrial robots. In this paper axial welding force reduction is investigated by use of tool design and welding parameters in FSW of 3.07 mm thick AA6061-T6 sheets at right angle. Attempt is made to reduce the required axial force while having acceptable ultimate tensile strength (UTS). It is found that shoulder working diameter and shoulder angle are the most important parameters in the axial force determination yet pin angle has minor effect. According to the developed artificial neural network (ANN) model, proper selection of shoulder diameter and angle can lead to approximately 40% force reduction with acceptable UTS. Regions of tool design and welding parameters are found which result in reduced axial force along with acceptable UTS.


Friction stir welding is a solid state welding which uses non consumable welding tool. It is an automatic process which generally performs on the vertical milling machine. In this type of welding, the relative motion between the tools and work piece creates heat which uses the region of work piece to be welded get softened and to joint the two work pieces. Friction stir welding process is more reliable for the materials which are generally non heat treatable. In this present investigation it will observe that how the rotational speeds of the tool and different shapes of the tool pins effects the mechanical properties of the aluminium alloy 6082. For this purpose three tools with different profiles, i.e triangular, cylindrical and square was designed and fabricated. At three different rotational speeds of 560 rpm, 900 rpm, 1800 rpm work pieces are joined using vertical milling machine. Specimens are prepared and tested for mechanical properties, tensile, impact, and hardness tests are performed and to detect the defects and voids x-ray test performed on the weld joints. And it was observed that highest tensile strength was presented when the square pin tool used at 560 rpm. The rotational speed increased mechanical properties are reducing significantly.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 719-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Jayaseelan ◽  
T. V. Christy ◽  
Prabhu G. Rubesh ◽  
R. Srinivasan

Friction Stir welding is a solid state joining process with no filler material. In this work, we specifically investigated the Tool Pin Profile, Tool Material, Base Material and the process parameters in the Aluminum metal matrix composites especially reinforced with Zirconium diboride (Al–ZrB2 . Tools of Various Materials and the corresponding tensile strength of the weld specimen, microstructure analysis and Hardness test are evaluated. Threaded Cylinder made of various materials are OHNS, HCHCr, H13 tools are carried out in the process with D/d Ratio are used. The result will be stated with the Threaded Cylinder pin with which tool material provides highest strength to the Bas material.


2003 ◽  
Vol 807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Cederqvist

ABSTRACTFriction Stir Welding (FSW) is a novel solid-state joining process where the work pieces are joined together using a rotating non-consumable tool. The process has mainly been used for joining aluminium alloys, and has not yet been used in production for any other metal. However, the results from the development program confirm that FSW can consistently seal 50mm thick copper canisters without creating defects. A new machine is now installed at SKB's Canister Laboratory to further automate the process to production level.


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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-363
Author(s):  
Stephen Leon Joseph Leon ◽  
Alfred Franklin Varghese ◽  
Joseph Michel ◽  
Gopinath Gunasekaran

Frictional heat generation in the tool/matrix interface followed by the stirring of material along the weld line causes plasticized solid state joining in friction stir welding. In this paper, the existing torque based thermo-mechanical model for the tools with cylindrical pins is remodified for the polygonal tool pin profile by introducing novel multiplication factors with respect to the number of sides in the tool pin geometry. The variation in the effective heat supply with respect to the chosen pin geometry was analyzed. A comparative analysis of the proposed analytical model with the existing model was also carried out to understand the accuracy of the proposed model.  Furthermore, a transient thermal numerical modelling was carried out in the view of understanding the change in process peak temperature in the stir zone and change in temperature gradient along the heat affected zone with respect to the change in pin geometry for the opted set of process input parameters. An analytically estimated heat-input-based numerical model was adopted in the present study. It was observed that the process peak temperature was directly proportional to the number of sides in the tool pin. ABSTRAK: Penjanaan haba geseran antara muka pada alat/matrik diikuti dengan pengacauan material sepanjang garis kimpalan menyebabkan keadaan plastik pepejal melekat bersama geseran kimpalan pengacau. Kajian ini berkaitan tork sedia ada berdasarkan model mekanikal-terma bagi alat pin silinder yang terubah suai bagi profil pin alat poligon dengan memperkenalkan faktor gandaan berdasarkan bilangan sisi geometri alat pin. Perubahan pada bekalan haba efektif berdasarkan geometri pin pilihan telah dikaji. Analisis bandingan pada model analitik yang dicadang bersama model sedia ada, telah dilakukan bagi memahami ketepatan model cadangan. Tambahan, model transien numerikal terma telah dibuat bagi memahami proses perubahan suhu puncak ketika zon pengacauan dan perubahan gradien suhu sepanjang zon terkena haba perubahan geometri pin pada set proses parameter input terpilih. Kajian ini mengaplikasi model numerik berdasarkan input anggaran haba secara analitik. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan suhu puncak proses adalah berkadar langsung dengan bilangan sisi pin alat.


2018 ◽  
Vol 224 ◽  
pp. 01118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zakaria Boumerzoug

Welding is a process of joining materials into one piece. Welding is used extensively for pipe welding, aerospace, aviation, biomedical implants, fabrication of race cars, choppers, etc. Welding processes include thermal fusion joining processes and solid-state joining processes. Among solid-state joining processes, there is a friction stir welding which is applied to join two workpieces without materials. This technique of welding has great is used to weld dissimilar materials. This type of welding is gaining renewed interest, because the main objective is to reduce the total weight and maintaining essential physical properties. The objective of this paper is to focus on the friction stir welding of dissimilar materials.


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