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Advantages and Limitations of FSW

The document outlines the advantages and limitations of a welding process, highlighting benefits such as fine-grained structure, low cost, and superior mechanical properties, while noting drawbacks like slow speeds and the need for rigid clamping. It also mentions the automotive industry's interest in friction stir welding for aluminum components. Additionally, it briefly describes laser cutting of stents and other welding techniques.

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Advantages and Limitations of FSW

The document outlines the advantages and limitations of a welding process, highlighting benefits such as fine-grained structure, low cost, and superior mechanical properties, while noting drawbacks like slow speeds and the need for rigid clamping. It also mentions the automotive industry's interest in friction stir welding for aluminum components. Additionally, it briefly describes laser cutting of stents and other welding techniques.

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Advantages

• 1. many of the problems associated with the liquid-


phase welding of aluminium are avoided.
• Produces fine-grained structure with no major defects
• 2. process relatively inexpensive
• 3. surface appearance excellent.
• 4. consumes relatively little energy
• essentially low-maintenance.
• 5. capable of joining material up to 12 mm thick.
• 6. mechanical properties superior.
• 7. simple in-process monitoring
Limitations

• 1. relatively slow-speeds of 0.6 m/min for material of 1.6 mm thick,


and 0.3 m/min for material of 3.2 mm thick
• speeds are comparable with MIG welding.
• 2. rigid clamping is required for positional accuracy.
• 3. post-process heat treatment is required to restore some of the
original properties of the parent metal
• 4. A tool-exit hole is left at the start–stop point of the weld which
must be filled after processing.
• 5. best suited to long, straight, flat joints.
• 6. will only tolerate gaps up to 10% of the material thickness
between the abutted surfaces to be jointed — 0.2 mm gap for
1.6 mm thick sheet
• flexibility of arc- and laser welding processes are not likely to be
achievable with this process.
• automotive industry is beginning to
participate in the development of the
technique, and is testing out possible
areas of application. AO Smith
Corporation, for example, a major US
supplier of automotive parts to Ford,
Chrysler and GM, achieved a major
breakthrough in 1996 by replacing steel
with aluminium in a structural component,
using friction stir welding.
Laser Cutting of Stents

• A stent is a tube which is inserted into a human artery


and then expanded by balloon angioplasty to act as a
scaffold to maintain unimpeded blood flow.

• It is frequently made of stainless steel,


• or rubber-elastic shape-memory metal.

• The movie shows the use of a pulsed yttrium-aluminium-


garnet (YAG) laser to neatly cut the tube into the
required pattern, without leaving burrs.
Laser Cutting of Stents
Laser spot and seam welding
using a vision system
Brazing using High-Power Diode
Laser
Friction stir welding

schematic of the friction stir welding process

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