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Overview of Friction Stir Welding Process

Friction-stir welding is a solid-state joining process that uses a rotating tool to generate heat and soften metal at the joining location, allowing it to be mechanically mixed and joined without melting. It is primarily used on aluminum alloys to produce strong welds without post-welding heat treatment. The process was invented in 1991 at The Welding Institute in the UK.

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Overview of Friction Stir Welding Process

Friction-stir welding is a solid-state joining process that uses a rotating tool to generate heat and soften metal at the joining location, allowing it to be mechanically mixed and joined without melting. It is primarily used on aluminum alloys to produce strong welds without post-welding heat treatment. The process was invented in 1991 at The Welding Institute in the UK.

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Friction-stir welding (FSW) is a solid-state joining process (the metal is not melted) that uses a third body tool

to join 2 faying surfaces. Heat is generated between the tool and material which leads to a very soft region near the FSW tool. It then mechanically intermixes the two pieces of metal at the place of the join, then the softened metal (due to the elavated temperature) can be joined using mechanical pressure (which is applied by the tool), much like joining clay, or dough. It is primarily used on aluminium, and most often on extruded aluminum (nonheat treatable alloys), and on structures which wants superior weld strength without a post weld heat treatment. It was invented and experimentally proven at The Welding Institute UK in December 1991. TWI holds patents on [1] the process, the first being the most descriptive.

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