Friction Stir Welding and Processing of Dissimilar Materials
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Welding and Joining".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 503
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metal-based structures are produced using various joining techniques. This includes fusion- and friction-based techniques. The latter are the most preferred since they do not produce fumes during their operation and are categorized as green technology. They are classified into two major classes, i.e., friction welding and friction stir welding. These techniques are fairly new; hence, their industrial application is still limited. This suggests that there are more aspects related to this type of joining that still need to be explored. It should be noted that there is a lot that has been done in advancing this technique. However, the literature is dominated by the use of this technique to join or process similar materials. This Special Issue seeks submissions that deal with the joining and processing of dissimilar materials.
This Special Issue will consider original papers covering the following areas:
- Repair of dissimilar joints using friction-based techniques;
- Experimental and numerical modeling of friction-based techniques;
- Effects of processing parameters on different properties of dissimilar joints;
- Correlation between microstructure, tribological, and mechanical properties of dissimilar joints;
- Optimization of fabrication parameters for friction-based techniques;
- Parameters affecting mechanical and tribological properties of structures manufactured using dissimilar materials.
Dr. Msomi Velaphi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- dissimilar welding
- processing of dissimilar materials
- influence of welding parameters on dissimilar materials
- optimization of welding parameters for dissimilar materials
- repair of joints using friction stir processing
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