Evaluation of fatigue crack propagation in dissimilar Al/steel friction stir welds

Ultrasonic evaluation of friction stir welds and dissimilar intermixing using synthetic aperture focusing technique

Friction stir welding (FSW) is a recently developed solid-state joining process that uses a specially shaped rotating tool to produce lap or butt joints. At the National Research Council, an inter-institute collaboration was started in 2007 with the goal of exploiting the NDE expertise and applying it for the characterization of friction stir welds for various industrial applications. In partic...

Texture development in friction stir welds

The shear textures that develop in friction stir welds are reviewed and discussed. In all the materials examined, including face centred cubic (fcc), body centred cubic (bcc) and hexagonal close-packed (hcp) materials, friction stir welding produces a predominant shear texture with the close-packed directions aligned with the shear direction (SD) and the close-packed plane normal perpendicular ...

Friction Stir Processing of 304L Arc Welds

Material Flow and Microstructure in the Friction Stir Butt Welds of the Same and Dissimilar Aluminum Alloys

The material flow and microstructural evolution in the friction stir welds of a 6061-Al alloy to itself and of a 6061-Al alloy to 2024-Al alloy plates of 12.7 mm in thickness were studied under different welding conditions. The results showed that plastic deformation, flow, and mechanical mixing of the material exhibit distinct asymmetry characteristics at both sides of the same and dissimilar ...

Friction Stir Welding of Dissimilar Materials: An Overview