An Effective Jig for Friction Stir Welding of Pipe Butt Joint

Azman Ismail; Mokhtar Awang; Mohd Afendi Rojan

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.752-753.491

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An Effective Jig for Friction Stir Welding of Pipe Butt Joint

Abstract:

A dedicated or specialized friction stir welding (FSW) machine is quite costly especially for pipe joining. Therefore, not many institutions manage to conduct their research on FSW at their facilities. Besides that, the difficulty to design a jig that can hold the complex shape such as pipe section tightly and easily to be removed during and after the FSW process respectively will nullify the intentions. In many institutions, there was either conventional or CNC milling machine available in their workshops. Thus, a jig called orbital clamping unit (OCU) was designed to suit this milling machine. It acts as an additional device to enable this milling machine to run as FSW machine at a lower cost, hence fully utilized the available facility in the workshop. Several good samples were successfully produced by using this jig and milling machine

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 752-753)

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491-495

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.752-753.491

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April 2015

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Azman Ismail, Mokhtar Awang*, Mohd Afendi Rojan

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CNC milling machine, Friction Stir Welding, Low Cost, Orbital Clamping Unit, Pipe

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