Advances in Friction-Stir Welding and Processing

✍ Scribed by M.-K. Besharati-Givi, P. Asadi

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 809
• Series: Woodhead Publishing Series in Welding and Other Joining Technologies
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Friction-stir welding (FSW) is a solid-state joining process primarily used on aluminum, and is also widely used for joining dissimilar metals such as aluminum, magnesium, copper and ferrous alloys. Recently, a friction-stir processing (FSP) technique based on FSW has been used for microstructural modifications, the homogenized and refined microstructure along with the reduced porosity resulting in improved mechanical properties. Advances in friction-stir welding and processing deals with the processes involved in different metals and polymers, including their microstructural and mechanical properties, wear and corrosion behavior, heat flow, and simulation. The book is structured into ten chapters, covering applications of the technology; tool and welding design; material and heat flow; microstructural evolution; mechanical properties; corrosion behavior and wear properties. Later chapters cover mechanical alloying and FSP as a welding and casting repair technique; optimization and simulation of artificial neural networks; and FSW and FSP of polymers.

• Provides studies of the microstructural, mechanical, corrosion and wear properties of friction-stir welded and processed materials
• Considers heat generation, heat flow and material flow
• Covers simulation of FSW/FSP and use of artificial neural network in FSW/FSP

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
List of figures and tables, Pages xiii-xlvi
List of abbreviations, Pages xlvii-li
Acknowledgements, Page liii
Preface, Page lv
About the authors, Pages lvii-lxvi
Contributor contact details, Pages lxvii-lxx
1 - General introduction, Pages 1-19
2 - Heat transfer and material flow in friction stir welding, Pages 21-63
3 - Microstructural evolution, Pages 65-140
4 - Mechanical properties, Pages 141-197
5 - Tool and welding design, Pages 199-240
6 - Friction stir welding of dissimilar metals, Pages 241-293
7 - Corrosion behaviour in friction stir processed and welded materials, Pages 295-328
8 - Tribological aspects in friction stir welding and processing, Pages 329-386
9 - Mechanical alloying by friction stir processing, Pages 387-425
10 - Friction stir welding/processing as a repair welding, Pages 427-457
11 - Force and torque in friction stir welding, Pages 459-498
12 - Simulation of friction stir welding and processing, Pages 499-542
13 - Artificial neural network and optimization, Pages 543-599
14 - Friction stir welding/processing of polymeric materials, Pages 601-670
15 - Friction stir welding applications in industry, Pages 671-722
Index, Pages 723-756