A New Tooling Approach for Friction Stir Welding of Thin Sheet AA2024-T3 - Optimization of Welding Parameters
Vol 39 No 94 (2022), Articles
Vol 39 No 94 (2022)

A New Tooling Approach for Friction Stir Welding of Thin Sheet AA2024-T3 - Optimization of Welding Parameters

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https://doi.org/10.7862/rm.2022.3
Published December 29, 2022
Piotr Myśliwiec
Rzeszow University of Technology, Department of Materials Forming and Processing, 8 Powstańców Warszawy, 35-959 Rzeszów, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9073-2082
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Keywords

aluminium alloy AA2024-T3
ANOVA
ceramic tools
friction stir welding
FSW tool geometry
joining of thin sheets
RSM

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Myśliwiec, P. (2022). A New Tooling Approach for Friction Stir Welding of Thin Sheet AA2024-T3 - Optimization of Welding Parameters. Advances in Mechanical and Materials Engineering, 39(94), 37-50. https://doi.org/10.7862/rm.2022.3
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Abstract

In this study a new ceramics tools with different groove distributions were designed and manufactured in order to enrich technological storage of joining thinwall structures and obtain sound joint with high quality of Alclad AA2024-T3 alloy of 0.5 mm in thickness. Four types of tools were tested, without grooves, with 1, 2 and 6 grooves. The tools are made of two materials. The straight shank is made from tungsten carbide and tool body made from ceramics strengthened with whiskers. The influence of technological parameters on the strength of FSW joints was tested by the Response Surface Methodology (RSM) and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) method. The least durable weld is produced by a tool without grooves. The single and double flute tool produces a good quality weld over a wide range of tool speeds. It has been shown that the grooves on the tool shoulder significantly affect the quality of the obtained FSW joint.

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