Abstract Ferrous alloys are employed in a range of fields, including aerospace, construction, automobiles and chemical processing. One the most used welding processes for fusion ferrous metals is gas tungsten arc (GTA) or Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding. Due to lower amount penetration accomplished using only one pass, less frequent some industrial situations. Fluxes have been discovered impro...

The presence of precipitates in metallic materials affects its durability, resistance and mechanical properties. Hence, its automatic identification by image processing and machine learning techniques may lead to reliable and efficient assessments on the materials. In this paper, we introduce four widely used supervised pattern recognition techniques to accomplish metallic precipitates segmenta...

A new method for implementing collision welding at a laboratory scale has been developed. The pressure that drives the flyer plate toward the target is created by electrically driven rapid vaporization of a thin metallic conductor, rather than by chemical explosives or magnetic forces. Dissimilar welding couples of copper-titanium, copper-steel, aluminum-copper, aluminummagnesium and titanium-s...

Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is a solid state process widely used to join dissimilar aluminium alloys. High quality and strength joints can be fabricated using this technique when compared to other conventional methods. The welding parameters play major role in determining the quality of the weld. This paper aims in presenting the effect of heat input on tensile properties of the joints between ...

Martensitic stainless steel AISI 431 and low carbon 1020 are materials used together in many different industries. However, important problems encountered when welding (fusion welding) these to each other. For this reason, friction process (Solid-state is join dissimilar metals. There very few studies on joining with welding. Therefore, the optimization of parameters pairs great important. In a...

Effects of some important parameters like impactor effects, plug geometry and initiation points on bonding aluminum tubes to aluminum plugs were studied. The impact velocity and dynamic angle between tube and plug should be precisely managed to achieve an optimum bonding condition. A new explosive bonding technique with the use of two material impactors was proposed. Results are especially suit...