Microstructure, mechanical properties and residual stresses as a function of welding speed in aluminium AA5083 friction stir welds
TL;DR: In this article, the results of microstructural, mechanical property and residual stress investigations of four aluminium AA5083 friction stir welds produced under varying conditions were reported, and it was found that the weld properties were dominated by the thermal input rather than the mechanical deformation by the tool.
About: This article is published in Acta Materialia.The article was published on 2003-09-15. It has received 666 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Friction welding & Welding.
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30 Mar 2007TL;DR: Friction stir welding (FSW) is a relatively new solid-state joining process that is used to join high-strength aerospace aluminum alloys and other metallic alloys that are hard to weld by conventional fusion welding as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Friction stir welding (FSW) is a relatively new solid-state joining process. This joining technique is energy efficient, environment friendly, and versatile. In particular, it can be used to join high-strength aerospace aluminum alloys and other metallic alloys that are hard to weld by conventional fusion welding. FSW is considered to be the most significant development in metal joining in a decade. Recently, friction stir processing (FSP) was developed for microstructural modification of metallic materials. In this review article, the current state of understanding and development of the FSW and FSP are addressed. Particular emphasis has been given to: (a) mechanisms responsible for the formation of welds and microstructural refinement, and (b) effects of FSW/FSP parameters on resultant microstructure and final mechanical properties. While the bulk of the information is related to aluminum alloys, important results are now available for other metals and alloys. At this stage, the technology diffusion has significantly outpaced the fundamental understanding of microstructural evolution and microstructure–property relationships.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with the fundamental understanding of the process and its metallurgical consequences, focusing on heat generation, heat transfer and plastic flow during welding, elements of tool design, understanding defect formation and the structure and properties of the welded materials.
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TL;DR: A comprehensive body of knowledge has built up with respect to the friction stir welding (FSW) of aluminium alloys since the technique was invented in 1991 is reviewed in this article, including thermal history and metal flow, before discussing how process parameters affect the weld microstructure and the likelihood of entraining defects.
Abstract: The comprehensive body of knowledge that has built up with respect to the friction stir welding (FSW) of aluminium alloys since the technique was invented in 1991 is reviewed The basic principles of FSW are described, including thermal history and metal flow, before discussing how process parameters affect the weld microstructure and the likelihood of entraining defects After introducing the characteristic macroscopic features, the microstructural development and related distribution of hardness are reviewed in some detail for the two classes of wrought aluminium alloy (non-heat-treatable and heat-treatable) Finally, the range of mechanical properties that can be achieved is discussed, including consideration of residual stress, fracture, fatigue and corrosion It is demonstrated that FSW of aluminium is becoming an increasingly mature technology with numerous commercial applications In spite of this, much remains to be learned about the process and opportunities for further research a
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TL;DR: In this paper, the current research status of microstructure, properties and heat treatment of SLM processing aluminum alloys is systematically reviewed respectively and a future outlook is given at the end of this review paper.
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TL;DR: In this article, the origins of residual stress are understood, opportunities for removing harmful or introducing beneficial residual stresses recognized, their evolution in-service predicted, their influence on failure processes understood and safe structural integrity assessments made, so as to either remove the part prior to failure, or to take corrective action to extend life.
Abstract: Our safety, comfort and peace of mind are heavily dependent upon our capability to prevent, predict or postpone the failure of components and structures on the basis of sound physical principles While the external loadings acting on a material or component are clearly important, There are other contributory factors including unfavourable materials microstructure, pre-existing defects and residual stresses Residual stresses can add to, or subtract from, the applied stresses and so when unexpected failure occurs it is often because residual stresses have combined critically with the applied stresses, or because together with the presence of undetected defects they have dangerously lowered the applied stress at which failure will occur Consequently it is important that the origins of residual stress are understood, opportunities for removing harmful or introducing beneficial residual stresses recognized, their evolution in-service predicted, their influence on failure processes understood and safe structural integrity assessments made, so as to either remove the part prior to failure, or to take corrective action to extend life This paper reviews the progress in these aspects in the light of the basic failure mechanisms
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...…mechanical properties that play the most significant roles in determining the final residual stresses rather than the plastic deformation (Staron et al 2002, Peel et al 2003, Reynolds et al 2003) as demonstrated by the similarity between the stress fields for friction and fusion welds in figure 17....
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01 Jan 1956
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a chemical analysis of X-ray diffraction by Xray Spectrometry and phase-diagram Determination of single crystal structures and phase diagrams.
Abstract: 1. Properties of X-rays. 2. Geometry of Crystals. 3. Diffraction I: Directions of Diffracted Beams. 4. Diffraction II: Intensities of Diffracted Beams. 5. Diffraction III: Non-Ideal Samples. 6. Laure Photographs. 7. Powder Photographs. 8. Diffractometer and Spectrometer. 9. Orientation and Quality of Single Crystals. 10. Structure of Polycrystalline Aggregates. 11. Determination of Crystal Structure. 12. Precise Parameter Measurements. 13. Phase-Diagram Determination. 14. Order-Disorder Transformation. 15. Chemical Analysis of X-ray Diffraction. 16. Chemical Analysis by X-ray Spectrometry. 17. Measurements of Residual Stress. 18. Polymers. 19. Small Angle Scatters. 20. Transmission Electron Microscope.
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15 Mar 2007
TL;DR: The first serious application of the microscope to the study of metallic structure was made in 1864 by Dr. H. Sorby, of Sheffield, but the lead then given was not followed for nearly a quarter of a century as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: THE subject of the lecture was the structure of metals, mainly as revealed by the microscope. The first serious application of the microscope to the study of metallic structure was made in 1864 by Dr. H. Sorby, of Sheffield, but the lead then given was not followed for nearly a quarter of a century. In the last fifteen years or so, however, it had been taken up with the greatest zeal and success, nowhere more than in Dr. Sorby's own town. There and elsewhere, in France, Germany, and America, as well as at home, a band of enthusiastic workers had been engaged in creating what might be described as a novel branch of physical science, as interesting on the physical side as it was important in its practical aspect. In this work Cambridge had done its share. The lecturer referred especially to work done in the engineering laboratory by Rosenhain, Humfrey, and other of his own former research students, and to the admirable investigation of alloys carried out by Neville and Heycock in the laboratory of Sidney Sussex College.
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24 Aug 1987
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method to measure residual stress from X-ray diffraction data. But, their method is not suitable for the analysis of nonlinear elasticity theory.
Abstract: 1 Introduction.- 1.1 The Origin of Stresses.- 1.2 Methods of Measuring Residual Stresses.- 1.3 Some Examples of Residual Stresses.- References.- 2 Fundamental Concepts in Stress Analysis.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Definitions.- 2.3 Stress and Strain.- 2.4 Forces and Stresses.- 2.5 Displacements and Strains.- 2.6 Transformation of Axes and Tensor Notation.- 2.7 Elastic Stress-Strain Relations for Isotropic Materials.- 2.8 Structure of Single Crystals.- 2.9 Elastic Stress-Strain Relations in Single Crystals.- 2.10 Equations of Equilibrium.- 2.11 Conditions of Compatibility.- 2.12 Basic Definitions in Plastic Deformation.- 2.13 Plastic Deformation of Single Crystals.- 2.14 Deformation and Yielding in Inhomogeneous Materials.- Problems.- 3 Analysis of Residual Stress Fields Using Linear Elasticity Theory.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Macroresidual Stresses.- 3.3 Equations of Equilibrium for Macrostresses.- 3.4 Microstresses.- 3.5 Equations of Equilibrium for Micro- and Pseudo-Macrostresses.- 3.6 Calculation of Micro- and PM Stresses.- 3.7 The Total Stress State in Surface Deformed Multiphase Materials.- 3.8 Macroscopic Averages of Single Crystal Elastic Constants.- 3.9 The Voigt Average.- 3.10 The Reuss Average.- 3.11 Other Approaches to Elastic Constant Determination.- 3.12 Average Diffraction Elastic Constants.- Summary.- References.- 4 Fundamental Concepts in X-ray Diffraction.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Fundamentals of X-rays.- 4.3 Short-wavelength Limit and the Continuous Spectrum.- 4.4 Characteristic Radiation Lines.- 4.5 X-ray Sources.- 4.6 Absorption of X-rays.- 4.7 Filtering of X-rays.- 4.8 Scattering of X-rays.- 4.9 Scattering from Planes of Atoms.- 4.10 The Structure Factor of a Unit Cell.- 4.11 Experimental Utilization of Bragg's Law.- 4.12 Monochromators.- 4.13 Collimators and Slits.- 4.14 Diffraction Patterns from Single Crystals.- 4.15 Diffraction Patterns from Polycrystalline Specimens.- 4.16 Basic Diffractometer Geometry.- 4.17 Intensity of Diffracted Lines for Polycrystals.- 4.18 Multiplicity.- 4.19 Lorentz Factor.- 4.20 Absorption Factor.- 4.21 Temperature Factor.- 4.22 X-ray Detectors.- 4.23 Deadtime Correction for Detection Systems.- 4.24 Total Diffracted Intensity at a Given Angle 20.- 4.25 Depth of Penetration of X-rays.- 4.26 Fundamental Concepts in Neutron Diffraction.- 4.27 Scattering and Absorption of Neutrons.- Problems.- Bibliography and References.- 5 Determination of Strain and Stress Fields by Diffraction Methods.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Fundamental Equations of X-ray Strain Determination.- 5.3 Analysis of Regular "d" vs. sin2? Data.- 5.4 Determination of Stresses from Diffraction Data.- 5.5 Biaxial Stress Analysis.- 5.6 Triaxial Stress Analysis.- 5.7 Determination of the Unstressed Lattice Spacing.- 5.8 Effect of Homogeneity of the Strain Distribution and Specimen Anisotropy.- 5.9 Average Strain Data from Single Crystal Specimens.- 5.10 Interpretation of the Average X-ray Strain Data Measured from Polycrystalline Specimens.- 5.11 Interpretation of Average Stress States in Polycrystalline Specimens.- 5.12 Effect of Stress Gradients Normal to the Surface on d vs. sin2? Data.- 5.13 Experimental Determination of X-ray Elastic Constants.- 5.14 Determination of Stresses from Oscillatory Data.- 5.15 Stress Measurements with Neutron Diffraction.- 5.16 Effect of Composition Gradients with Depth.- 5.17 X-ray Determination of Yielding.- 5.18 Summary.- Problem.- References.- 6 Experimental Errors Associated with the X-ray Measurement of Residual Stress.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Selection of the Diffraction Peak for Stress Measurements.- 6.3 Peak Location.- 6.3.1 Half-Value Breadth and Centroid Methods.- 6.3.2 Functional Representations of X-ray Peaks.- 6.3.3 Peak Determination by Fitting a Parabola.- 6.3.4 Determination of Peak Shift.- 6.4 Determination of Peak Position for Asymmetric Peaks.- 6.5 Statistical Errors Associated with the X-ray Measurement of Line Profiles.- 6.6 Statistical Errors in Stress.- 6.6.1 The sin2? Technique.- 6.6.2 Two-Tilt Technique.- 6.6.3 Triaxial Stress Analysis.- 6.6.4 Statistical Errors in X-ray Elastic Constants.- 6.7 Instrumental Errors in Residual Stress Analysis.- 6.7.1 Variation of the Focal Point with ? and ?.- 6.7.2 Effect of Horizontal Divergence on Focusing.- 6.7.3 Effect of Vertical Beam Divergence.- 6.7.4 Effect of Specimen Displacement.- 6.7.5 Effect of ?-axis not Corresponding to the 2?-axis.- 6.7.6 Error Equations for the ?-Goniometer.- 6.7.7 Effect of Errors in the True Zero Position of the ?-axis.- 6.7.8 Alignment Procedures.- 6.8 Corrections for Macrostress Gradients.- 6.9 Corrections for Layer Removal.- 6.10 Summary.- Problems.- References.- 7 The Practical Use of X-ray Techniques.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 The Use of Ordinary Diffractometers.- 7.3 Software and Hardware Requirements.- 7.4 Available Instruments.- 7.5 Selected Applications of a Portable X-ray Residual Stress Unit (By W. P. Evans).- Reference.- 8 The Shape of Diffraction Peaks - X-ray Line Broadening.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 Slit Corrections.- 8.3 Fourier Analysis of Peak Broadening.- Problem.- References.- Appendix A: Solutions to Problems.- Appendix B.- B.1 Introduction.- B.2 The Marion-Cohen Method.- B.3 Dolle-Hauk Method (Oscillation-free Reflections).- B.4 Methods of Peiter and Lode.- B.5 Use of High Multiplicity Peaks.- References.- Appendix C: Fourier Analysis.- Appendix D: Location of Useful Information in "International Tables for Crystallography".- Appendix F: A Compilation of X-ray Elastic Constants (By Dr. M. James).- References.
2,146 citations
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01 Jan 1981
TL;DR: The physical metallurgy of aluminium alloys has been studied in this article, with the focus on the light metals and their applications in the development of novel alloys and processes.
Abstract: Preface * The light metals * Physical metallurgy of aluminium alloys * Wrought aluminium alloys * Cast aluminium alloys * Magnesium alloys * Titanium alloys * Novel alloys and processes * Appendix * Index.
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