Friction Stir Spot Welding (FSSW) of Aluminum Sheets: Experimental and Simulative Analysis

Gianluca D'Urso; Michela Longo; Claudio Giardini

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.549.477

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Friction Stir Spot Welding (FSSW) of Aluminum Sheets: Experimental and Simulative Analysis

Abstract:

Friction Stir welding (FSW) is a solid state joining process developed by TWI (The Welding Institute) in 1991. This technology is suitable for joining different materials even considered difficult to be welded using more traditional techniques and it is appropriate to weld materials in different configurations (such as butt, lap, circumferential, T-joint etc). Recently, starting from the FSW approach, a new technology called Friction Stir Spot Welding (FSSW) was developed. In this case, instead of moving along the weld seam, the tool only indents two overlapped parts. In some applications, this technology can be considered as a valid alternative for single point joining processes like resistance spot welding (RSW) and riveting processes. This work deals with an experimental study of the FSSW process for the lap-joining of thin aluminum sheets. In particular, an experimental campaign was performed on AA6060 T6 aluminum sheets having a thickness equal to 2 mm. The FSSW process was applied on couples of overlapped sheets by varying the tool rotational speed, and by keeping fixed the other process parameters, such as axial feed rate, indentation depth, and dwell time. Welding forces distributions were recorded during the process. Preliminary tensile tests and metallurgical analyses were also performed to evaluate the quality of the joints as function of the chosen process parameters. A numerical model of the FSSW process was developed and implemented using the commercial FEM code Deform 3D. The model parameters were set according to the experimental evidence.

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Key Engineering Materials (Volume 549)

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Gianluca D'Urso, Michela Longo, Claudio Giardini

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Alluminum Sheets, Finite Element Method (FEM), Friction Stir Spot Welding, Lap Joints

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