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Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Friction Stir Lap Welded Aluminum Alloy AA2014
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Friction stir lap welds were produced in 3 mm thick Alclad sheets of Al alloy 2014-T4 using two different tools (with triangular and threaded taper cylindrical pins) as mentioned in this paper.About:
This article is published in Journal of Materials Science & Technology.The article was published on 2012-05-01. It has received 93 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Alclad & Friction stir welding.read more
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Defect features and mechanical properties of friction stir lap welded dissimilar AA2024–AA7075 aluminum alloy sheets
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of process conditions (welding speed and joint combination) on defects (hook and voids) features and mechanical properties of joints were investigated in detail.
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Studies on Friction Stir Welding of AA 2024 and AA 6061 Dissimilar Metals
P. Sadeesh,M. Venkatesh Kannan,V. Rajkumar,P. Avinash,N. Arivazhagan,K. Devendranath Ramkumar,S. Narayanan +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, five different tool designs have been employed to analyse the influence of rotation speed and traverse speed over the microstructural and tensile properties of dissimilar AA2024 and AA6061 aluminium plates of 5mm thickness.
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Refill friction stir spot welding of 5083-O aluminum alloy
TL;DR: In this paper, a refill friction stir spot welding (RFSSW) was used to weld 2 mm-thick 5083-O alloy and three fracture modes were obtained during the lap shear test and all were affected by the hook defect.
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Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of 6082-T6 Aluminum Alloy Joints by Self-support Friction Stir Welding
TL;DR: In this article, a self-support friction stir welding (SSFSW) tool with a big concave upper shoulder and a small convex lower shoulder was developed for making reliable welds in aluminum hollow extrusion.
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Effect of tool tilt angle on strength and microstructural characteristics of friction stir welded lap joints of AA2014-T6 aluminum alloy
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of tool tilt angle on the strength of friction stir lap welding of AA2014-T6 aluminium alloy was investigated. And the results proved that, defect-free weld joint was obtained while using a tool-tilt angle of 1° to 3°.
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Weldability and mechanical properties of dissimilar aluminum–copper lap joints made by friction stir welding
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of welding speed on interface morphology, microstructure, and joint strength was investigated for lap joints of 1060 aluminum alloy and commercially pure copper was produced by friction stir welding, and the results revealed that in the aluminum close to the Al/Cu interface, a dark area was formed.
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Effect of tool rotational speed and probe length on lap joint quality of a friction stir welded magnesium alloy
Xinjin Cao,Mohammad Jahazi +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of tool rotational speed and probe length on lap joint quality of friction stir welded 2-mm AZ31B-H24 magnesium alloy were investigated in terms of welding defects, microstructure and mechanical properties.
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Friction stir welding of lap joints: Influence of process parameters on the metallurgical and mechanical properties
TL;DR: In this article, an experimental and numerical investigation on the lap joining of AA2198-T4 aluminum alloy blanks by FSW is presented, in particular the joints strength and metallurgical properties are investigated by varying the joint configuration and the tool geometry and rotational speed.
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Process optimisation and mechanical properties of friction stir lap welds of 7075-T6 stringers on 2024-T3 skin
TL;DR: In this paper, the results of process optimisation and mechanical tests that were used to ascertain the feasibility of using friction stir welding (FSW) to join stringers to skin were investigated.
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Fatigue properties of friction stir overlap welds
TL;DR: Friction stir welding (FSW) is currently used for many applications involving lap or T-joints, e.g. hermetically closed boxes such as cooling elements and heat exchangers as discussed by the authors.