Material flow in heterogeneous friction stir welding of thin aluminium sheets: Effect of shoulder geometry

The Effect of Tool Geometry on Material Flow Behavior of Friction Stir Welding of Titanium Alloy

Article history: Received 1.11.2012 Received in revised form 10.12.2012 Accepted 10.12.2012 Based on the RNG k-ε model, the finite volume model of friction stir welding of Ti6Al4V alloy is established by ANSYS FLUENT software. The effect of rotational tool geometry on titanium alloy flow behaviour is exhibited. The results of numerical simulation show that the flow direction of material near th...

Influence of Tool Shoulder Geometry on Properties of Friction Stir Welds in Thin Copper Sheets

Tool Geometry for Friction Stir Welding—Optimum Shoulder Diameter

The most important geometric parameter in the friction stir welding (FSW) tool design is the shoulder diameter, which is currently estimated by trial and error. Here, we report a combined experimental and theoretical investigation on the influence of shoulder diameter on thermal cycles, peak temperatures, power requirements, and torque during FSW of AA7075-T6. An optimum tool shoulder diameter ...

A 3D Numerical Model to Investigate Mechanical, Thermal and Material Flow Characteristics in Friction Stir Welding of Copper Sheets

The objective of this study was to develop a numerical model for the prediction of temperature distribution, effective plastic strain distribution, and especially material flow in friction stir welding of copper plates. The DEFORM-3D software was used by incorporating a lagrangian incremental formulation. Threedimensional results of the material flow pattern which were extracted using the po...

Material Flow Visualization in Friction Stir Welding via Particle Tracing

This work deals with the modeling of the material flow in Friction Stir Welding (FSW) processes using particle tracing method. For the computation of particle trajectories, three accurate and computationally efficient integration methods are implemented within a FE model for FSW process: the Backward Euler with Substepping (BES), the 4-th order Runge-Kutta (RK4) and the Back and Forth Error Com...