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Friction Stir Processing Of TIG And Friction Stir Welded Dissimilar Alloy Joints: A Review
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: Received: 18 October 2019 / Approved: 19 October 2019 / Online: 19 October 2019 (16:22:20 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 24 October 2019 / Approved: 25 October 2019 / Online: 25 October 2019 (12:08:31 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 24 October 2019 / Approved: 25 October 2019 / Online: 25 October 2019 (12:08:31 CEST)
A peer-reviewed article of this Preprint also exists.
Mabuwa, S.; Msomi, V. Review on Friction Stir Processed TIG and Friction Stir Welded Dissimilar Alloy Joints. Metals 2020, 10, 142. Mabuwa, S.; Msomi, V. Review on Friction Stir Processed TIG and Friction Stir Welded Dissimilar Alloy Joints. Metals 2020, 10, 142.
Abstract
The use of aluminium alloys continues to grow in many applications to mention a few aerospace, automotive, electronics, electricity, construction and food packaging. With so much demand there is a new interest in welding of dissimilar aluminium alloys. Some of the welding techniques used to join dissimilar aluminium alloys include friction stir welding and TIG welding. The welding of dissimilar alloys affects the mechanical properties negatively due to porosity and cracking during the welding. This then suggests that there should be a process which can be used to improve the dissimilar alloys mechanical properties post its production. Friction stir processing was found to be one of the mechanical techniques that could be used to improve the mechanical properties of the material. This paper reports on the literature on the friction stir welding, TIG welding and friction stir processing techniques published so far, with the aim to identify the gap in the use of friction stir process as a post processing technique of the weld joints.
Keywords
friction stir welding; TIG welding; friction stir processing; dissimilar alloys; aluminium alloys; mechanical properties; microstructure
Subject
Chemistry and Materials Science, Metals, Alloys and Metallurgy
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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