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Equations of heat generation during friction stir welding for tapered polygonal tools
journal contribution
posted on 2018-08-16, 15:34 authored by Basim M. A. Al Bhadle, Rafat A. A. Al Azzawi, R. Thornton, K. Beamish, S. Shi, H. B. DongOwing to the complex nature of heat generation in friction stir welding, equations are required to understand the effect of process parameters and tool geometry on heat generation. In this study, simplified equations for straight tool profiles have been extended to treat tapered tool profiles for triangular, square, pentagonal and hexagonal geometries. New equations have been implemented to model heat generation in a finite element software package for welding aluminium alloy. The calculated thermal profiles agree better with experimental data than those calculated using the simplified equations. It was also demonstrated that the amount of heat generation increases with increasing number of flats on the tapered tool profile, with a hexagonal tapered tool profile generating the highest temperature.
Funding
The first and second authors gratefully acknowledge the support provided by Republic of Iraq / Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MOHESR) for funding this work through scholarship no. 4956 for the first author and no. 2872 for the second author.
History
Citation
Science and Technology of Welding and Joining, 2018Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/Department of EngineeringVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)