Friction stir spot welding of aluminium to steel by rotating tool without probe

A friction stir spot welding process, in which a rotating tool without a probe was employed, was applied to a lap joint of an aluminium plate to a low carbon steel plate. The thicknesses of both plates were 0.5 mm. In this process, the rotating tool of 5 mm diameter, rotating at 18,000 rpm, was plunged into the aluminium plate at a rate of 2 mm/s, and then kept at a maximum plunged depth of 0.05–0.35 mm for 0–2 s (dwell time). In the weld obtained by this process, a hole due to the impression of the penetrated tool probe was not formed, although a slight depression by the tool plunging remained. At tool plunge depths of 0.1 mm or over, it was possible to weld the two plates. The maximum tensile failure load of 454 N was obtained at a plunge depth of 0.1 mm and a dwell time of 1.5 s. Its joint was fractured at an almost constant load along the periphery of the depression, leaving a part of the aluminium plate on the steel plate surface. Based on the observation of the weld interface microstructure and metal flow of aluminium in the weld, controlling factors of the joint strength were discussed.     

Development of friction stir spot welding using rotating tool without probe and its application to low-carbon steel plates

A friction stir spot welding process, in which a rotating tool without a probe was employed, was applied to a lap joint of low carbon steel plates with 0.5 mm thickness. In this process, the rotating tool of 3.6 mm diameter, rotating at 18,000 rpm, was plunged into the upper plate at a rate of 0.2 mm/s, and then kept at a maximum plunged depth of 0.05–0.25 mm for 0–1 s (dwell time). In the weld obtained by this process, a hole due to the impression of the plunged tool probe was not formed, although a slight depression by the tool plunging remained. At tool plunge depths of 0.05 mm or less, it was impossible to weld the plates. At tool plunge depths from 0.1 to 0.14 mm, joints were fractured at the interface in tensile test, and the failure load increased with tool plunge depth. At tool plunge depths from 0.16 to 0.22 mm, joints were fractured at an almost constant load along the periphery of the depression, leaving a part of the upper plate on the bottom plate surface. The maximum tensile failure load of 1.8 kN was obtained at a plunge depth of 0.2 mm. Based on the observation of the weld microstructure and measurement of the thermal cycle at various spots in the weld, controlling factors of the joint strength are discussed.     

Analysis of process parameters effects on dissimilar friction stir welding of AA1100 and A441 AISI steel

Abstract

A prominent benefit of friction stir welding process is to join plates with dissimilar material. In this study, an attempt is made to find effects of tool offset, plunge depth, welding traverse speed and tool rotational speed on tensile strength, microhardness and material flow in dissimilar friction stir welding of AA1100 aluminium alloy and A441 AISI steel plates. Here, one factor at a time experimental design was utilised for conducting the experiments. Results indicated the strongest joint obtained at 1·3?mm tool offset and 0·2?mm plunge depth when the tool rotational speed and linear speed were 800?rev min^??1 and 63?mm min^??1 respectively. The maximum tensile strength of welded joints with mentioned optimal parameters was 90% aluminium base metal. Fracture locations in tensile test at all samples were in aluminium sides. Owing to the formation of intermetallic compounds at high tool rotational speed, the microhardness of joint interface goes beyond that of A441 AISI steel.     

30 mm 7A05铝合金搅拌摩擦焊接头组织及力学性能

采用搅拌摩擦焊方法利用新型搅拌头对30 mm厚的7A05-T6铝合金进行了单道对接,焊后分析讨论了焊缝接头微观组织和力学性能.结果表明,接头焊核区发生动态再结晶,生成细小的等轴晶粒;焊缝两侧热力影响区受机械和热的双重作用,组织存在较大差异,前进侧为窄条状组织,后退侧为扁平状组织;热影响区晶粒粗化;在焊接30 mm板时,工艺参数范围较窄,旋转频率为360 r/min,焊接速度为100 mm/min时,可获得无缺陷、成形好的焊缝;接头抗拉强度为367.7 MPa、屈服强度为280.8 MPa、断后伸长率为14.4%高于母材,接头抗拉强度可达母材的95%.接头显微硬度的分布呈类似W形分布,热影响区软化趋势比较明显.     

Friction stir welding of co-cast aluminium clad sheet

The effects of welding parameters on material consolidation are examined during friction stir butt welding of 2 mm Al 5083 alloy aluminium sheet with a surface cladding of Al 3025 alloy, which was co-cast from the melt. The influence of welding parameters on joint consolidation is investigated when tool revolutions per minute, travel speed and penetration depth were varied. It was found that modifying the pin of the welding tool to have a two-flat profile improves material consolidation and avoids defect formation during welding, and optimum welding parameters involve a combination of high tool rotation speed and travel speed. Optical and electron microscopy revealed that the integrity of the surface cladding layer could be maintained during friction stir welding while avoiding defect formation within the stir zone of the weld. The tensile strength of the joint was ～58% of the base material due to softening within the stir zone.     

Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Dissimilar Double-Side Friction Stir Welds Between Medium-Thick 6061-T6 Aluminum and Pure Copper Plates

It is difficult to achieve Al/Cu dissimilar welds with good mechanical properties for medium-thick plates due to the inherent high heat generation rate at the shoulder-workpiece contact interface in conventional friction stir welding. Thus, double-side friction stir welding is innovatively applied to join 12-mm medium-thick 6061-T6 aluminum alloy and pure copper dissimilar plates, and the effect of welding speeds on the joint microstructure and mechanical properties of Al/Cu welds is systematically analyzed. It reveals that a sound Al/Cu joint without macroscopic defects can be achieved when the welding speed is lower than 180 mm/min, while a nonuniform relatively thick intermetallic compound (IMC) layer is formed at the Al/Cu interface, resulting in lots of local microcracks within the first-pass weld under the plunging force of the tool during friction stir welding of the second-pass, and seriously deteriorates the mechanical properties of the joint. With the increase of welding speed to more than 300 mm/min void defects appear in the joint, but the joint properties are still better than the welds performed at low welding speed conditions since a continuous uniform thin IMCs layer is formed at the Al/Cu interface. The maximum tensile strength and elongation of Al/Cu weld are, respectively, 135.11 MPa and 6.06%, which is achieved at the welding speed of 400 mm/min. In addition, due to the influence of welding distortion of the first-pass weld, the second-pass weld is more prone to form void defects than the first-pass weld when the same plunge depth is applied on both sides. The double-side friction stir welding is proved to be a good method for dissimilar welding of medium-thick Al/Cu plates.     

Novel dissimilar spot welding of aluminium alloy and steel sheets by friction stirring

Friction stir spot welding (FSSW) has been applied to a dissimilar metal lap joint of an aluminium alloy and steel by stirring only the upper aluminium alloy sheet. Therefore, FSSW cannot be used to weld a lap joint composed of three or more sheets and a lap joint with an adhesive interlayer. In the present work, we propose a novel spot welding process for dissimilar metal lap joints using a new tool with the tip made of spherical ceramics. When this process is applied to the lap joint of the aluminium alloy and steel, the tool can be plunged into the lower steel sheet, then a steel projection is formed in the aluminium alloy sheet. The height of this steel projection increases with the plunge depth, and accordingly, the weld strength increases; the tensile shear strength and the cross tensile strength reached about 3.6 and 2.3 kN/point, respectively.     

Microstructural analysis of the stir zone of Al alloy produced by friction stir spot welding

The present study applied friction spot joining (FSJ), which was recently developed as a lap joining technique of Al alloys, to two sheets of Al alloy 6061, 1 mm in thickness, and then examined the microstructural feature in the weld. The weld had the nugget-shaped stir zone around the exit hole of the probe, and the stir zone exhibited the equiaxed grain structure having finer grain size than that of the base material. The crystallographic texture analysis using electron backscattered diffraction method suggested that the material movement occurred along the rotating direction of the welding tool in the wide region including the stir zone. In the periphery of the nugget-shaped stir zone, which was characterized as the region having the finer grain size than that of the stir zone interior, any inclusions and precipitates were not found in the SEM scale. The weld was softened around the weld centre. The softening could be explained by dissolution and/or growth of the strengthening precipitates due to thermal cycle of FSJ.     

7A52铝合金搅拌摩擦焊的焊缝成形

针对7．6mm厚的7A52铝合金，研究了搅拌头的形状和焊接工艺参数对焊缝成形的影响，分析了搅拌摩擦焊缺陷产生的原因。结果表明，搅拌头的形状决定了焊接时焊缝成形的旋转速度范围；搅拌头旋转速度、焊接移动速度、焊接倾角、搅拌头轴肩压入被焊接件表面深度等都对搅拌摩擦焊焊缝成形有重要影响，只有合适的工艺匹配才能保证焊缝成形良好。     

塑料板的搅拌摩擦焊工艺研究

主要对塑料板的搅拌摩擦焊工艺进行了探索,研究了主要的工艺参数（包括搅拌头的形状、搅拌头的旋转速度、焊接速度、轴肩下压量和主轴倾角）对塑料焊缝成形的影响,并对焊后成形较好的试样进行了力学性能试验和焊缝横截面的宏观分析.结果表明,当工艺参数选择合适时,可以得到光滑、美观和无缺陷的焊缝,接头的抗拉强度可达到母材的90%以上.     

喷射成形7055铝合金FSW焊工艺与性能

采用搅拌摩擦焊接方法对厚度为4 mm的喷射成形7055铝合金板进行焊接试验.分析了焊接速度和旋转频率对接头力学性能的影响,对焊缝的显微组织和断口进行了微观分析.结果表明,当焊接工艺参数选择合适时,可得到外形美观,无缺陷的焊缝.另外焊接接头力学性能与焊接工艺参数存在一定的关系,在旋转频率为1 000r/min,且焊接速度为100 mm/min时,可以获得较好的焊接性能,抗拉强度可以达到455MP,断裂形式为韧性和脆性的混合型断裂;焊缝中存在3个组织变化区,其中焊核区内是细小均匀的等轴晶;焊缝显微硬度的最低值出现在前进侧,说明前进侧是焊缝的薄弱环节.     

Friction stir welding of pure titanium lap joint

Abstract

The effects of welding parameters on friction stir welding of pure titanium lap joint were investigated together with the microstructural characteristics of the sound joint. Three kinds of welding defects were found under the condition of tool load control, namely, the groove-like defect, the inner cavity defect and the overheating rough surface and tool penetration defect with increasing heat input. The tool plunge depth control effectively increased the lap width compared with the tool load control, so the sound joints fractured in the base metal were acquired at 250 rev min^–1–75 mm min^–1 and 200 rev min^–1–50 mm min^–1. The sound joint consisted of the thermomechanically affected zone, the stir zone, the lap zone and the top layer. The microstructure was fined obviously after welding, and finer grains were observed in the lap zone and top layer.     

Enlarged-end tool for friction stir lap welding towards hook defect controlling

Hook defect is one of the trickiest issues for friction stir lap welding,which remains to be resolved.In this study,a designed pin with an enlarged-end was proposed to control the interfacial hook defect by optimizing its morphology orientation.The insert aduncous structure at the advancing side is dissected by multilayer metallographic observation,which is the main character to terminate the inner-ward extension of the hook.The application of this tool was verified practical with a varied plunge depth of pin into the lower plate from 0.1 mm to 1.6 mm.The angle of the hook was small and terminated at the insert-structure or oriented toward the material convergence region.No joint fractured along the hook line and the highest joint efficiency reached 86%of the parent 6082-T4 aluminum alloy.     

AZ91D薄板搅拌摩擦焊

实现了厚度为2.2 mm铸造镁合金AZ91D薄板的搅拌摩擦焊和钨极氩弧焊,分析了搅拌摩擦焊工艺参数对焊接接头成形的影响和接头组织变化,考察了搅拌摩擦焊接头的力学性能.在搅拌头旋转速度为1 380 r/min时得到了比较理想的焊接接头,而1 960 r/min的转速过大.接头不同区域所受的机械力和热量不同,显微组织明显不同.搅拌区晶粒细小,显微硬度和强度都有所提高.搅拌摩擦焊接头力学性能与热输入有关;与氩弧焊接头相比,搅拌摩擦焊接接头的性能更好.     

2024-T4超薄铝合金机器人搅拌摩擦焊接头组织及力学性能

机器人作为搅拌摩擦焊系统的载体时,由于其关节采用串联模式进行连接,在焊接过程中关节易发生变形,而变形的释放会导致焊漏等缺陷,制约了机器人搅拌摩擦焊系统在超薄板焊接过程中的应用. 针对上述问题,文中对0.5 mm厚超薄2024-T4铝合金板进行了机器人搅拌摩擦焊工艺研究. 结果表明,增加下压量或提高主轴转速成功实现薄板铝合金焊接,在主轴转速为2 500 r/min,焊接速度为600 ~ 1 000 mm/min工艺参数内,接头强度呈现升高趋势,最高可达408 MPa,达到母材90%. 接头硬度呈双“W”形分布,其断裂形式为韧性断裂.     

温度峰值影响6061铝/AZ31B镁异种材料FSW接头成形的规律

以6061-T6铝合金与AZ31B镁合金为研究对象,基于Abaqus软件进行了异种材料搅拌摩擦焊过程的温度场数值模拟,重点分析搅拌针偏置镁侧下的搅拌区温度峰值影响焊缝表面成形的规律。结果表明,当焊接温度峰值高于Al-Mg共晶温度时,搅拌针根部附近区域会出现较明显的黏着现象,其随着焊接速度的降低而加剧,这与焊接温度峰值的升高相关。随着焊接速度的增加,焊缝表面更易避免裂纹缺陷的产生。当搅拌头的转速为1200r/min且焊接速度为40mm/min时,6061铝/AZ31B镁异种材料焊接接头的表面成形良好。     

Full penetration welding of thick high tensile strength steel plate with high-power disk laser in low vacuum

This study was undertaken in order to investigate the effect of reduced ambient pressure from an atmospheric pressure (101 kPa) to 0.1 kPa on one-pass full penetration welding of thick high-tensile strength steel plate of 23 mm thickness. A 16 kW disk laser of 1030 nm in wavelength was employed to weld HT980 grade plates at the speed of 5–25 mm/s. In partial penetration welding, it was revealed that humping phenomena occurred easily. Full penetration welding of the high-tensile strength steel plates could not be achieved at 101 kPa. On the other hand, full penetration welding was obtained at the welding speed of less than 20 mm/s at the pressure of less than 10 kPa. Especially, at 0.1 kPa, and 17 and 20 mm/s, sound weld joints without defects were obtained. According to the observation results of a keyhole inlet and a surface molten pool during welding with a high-speed video camera, the melt in front of a keyhole was smaller and the behaviour of a keyhole and a plume was much more stable at 0.1 kPa than at 101 kPa. Moreover, in the full penetration welding, spattering was suppressed under the proper conditions. Such phenomena became more stable in fast welding. It was revealed in laser welding of thick high-tensile strength steel plates that the formation of narrow I-shaped weld beads by achieving full-penetration welding in low vacuum was essential for the production of sound welds without defect.     

2A14-T6铝合金双轴肩搅拌摩擦焊特征及接头组织性能分析

成功实现了2A14-T6高强铝合金的双轴肩搅拌摩擦焊,获得了表面成形良好,无内部缺陷的优质接头. 试验发现,在焊缝的焊核内存在一个由上、下轴肩和搅拌针所驱动的材料塑性流动交汇区,该交汇区靠近焊缝下表面. 微观分析表明,焊核上部的晶粒尺寸要小于其中部和下部的晶粒尺寸. 焊缝各区的块状第二相在焊接中发生了溶解和粗化,导致接头内出现了宽度近乎轴肩直径二倍的软化区;焊缝各层硬度分布接近,没有出现常规搅拌摩擦焊中常见的接头各层异性现象. 经拉伸测试证实,双轴肩焊接接头的强度系数达到了71%,拉伸时断在了焊核内的材料流动交汇区处.     

Experimental and thermomechanical analysis of friction stir welding of poly(methyl methacrylate) sheets

In the present work, the feasibility of friction stir welding (FSW) of poly(methyl methacrylate) sheets was studied experimentally and theoretically by employing thermomechanical simulations. The effect of processing parameters including tool plunge depth, tilt angle, tool rotational speed (w), and transverse velocity (v) was investigated to determine suitable conditions to attain sound and defect-free joints. It is shown that a low tool plunge depth of 0.2?mm and a tilt angle of 2° provide suitable material flow to gain sound joints. By controlling the heat input into stir zone by increasing the tool rotational speed and decreasing linear velocity, the formation of defects can be minimised. Mechanical examinations in both longitudinal (LS) and transverse (TS) directions indicate that the highest joint strength of 57?MPa (for LS) and 42?MPa (for TS) are obtained at processing conditions of w?=?25?mm?min^?1 and v?=?1600?rev?min^?1. The measured tensile strengths are 81 and 60% of the base polymer, respectively.     

一种应用于薄板搭接的磁控电弧焊缝跟踪方法

薄板搭接的焊缝自动跟踪一直以来都是焊接领域的一个难点,针对其特点提出了一种应用于薄板搭接的磁控电弧焊缝跟踪方法,该方法是采用外加横向交变磁场来控制焊接电弧左右摆动扫描搭接坡口并通过检测焊接电流的变化规律来检测焊缝的偏差信号.分别采用双级二阶巴特沃思硬件滤波和小波滤波软件处理,并进行相关对比,最终选定小波阈值降噪滤波处理方法.针对薄板搭接特点和磁控电弧摆动规律,提出了一种基于中点均分面积积分单边比较法和焊枪控制法相结合的焊缝偏差控制方法.通过实际的焊缝跟踪试验表明,这种磁控电弧焊缝自动跟踪方法在薄板搭接上具有独特的优势.