There is an increase in reducing the weight of structures through the use of aluminium alloys in different industries like aerospace, automotive, etc. This growing interest will lead towards using dissimilar aluminium alloys which will require weldin...
Dissimilar joining through solid-state welding is an important engineering tool to address the transportation industry’s sustainable goals. The dissimilar friction stir lap welding (FSLW) of two different aluminium alloys (AA5182 and AA5052 wit...
Welding of dissimilar aluminium alloys has been a challenge for a long period until the discovery of the solid-state welding technique called friction stir welding (FSW). The discovery of this technique encouraged different research interests revolvi...
A variant of a hybrid manufacturing process combines the benefits of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) and conventional manufacturing. Hybrid manufacturing can result in dissimilar material combinations which are prone to process errors. This study is m...
In this work, rotary friction welding processes of dissimilar AA7075/AA5083 aluminium alloy rods with the diameter of 15 mm were performed at varying rotational speeds, typically 370 to 2500 rpm. The aim of this research is to improve mechanical prop...
In the current investigation, the influence of the tool geometry, the position of the materials in the joint, the welding speed on the temperature and torque developed, and on the quality of the welds in dissimilar and tri-dissimilar T joints were an...
The aim of this work was to investigate the challenges associated with bonding Al-Mg alloys and develop a new method for bonding these alloys to steels. During an extensive R&D project, over 80 attempts, using 11 methods, were made to bond Al-6 w...
This article provides a comprehensive review of the advancements made in the diffusion bonding of titanium and its alloys to other advanced materials such as aluminium, stainless steel, and magnesium. This combination of advanced alloys has received...
Aluminium alloys are known for their high strength-to-weight-ratio offering a wide range of applications in the aerospace and automotive industries. However, challenges exist like porosity, oxidation, solidification shrinkage, hot cracking, etc., in...
Surface metal matrix composites offer an excellent solution for applications where surface properties play a crucial role in components’ performance and durability, such as greater corrosion resistance, better wear resistance, and high formabil...
In this study, FSW experiments were conducted on a 4 mm-thick A380 aluminium alloy plate and 6061 aluminium alloy using four different needle lengths (2.5 mm, 2.8 mm, 3.0 mm, and 3.5 mm) of H13 steel. The experiments were conducted at the same weldin...
This research study investigates the influence of sampling direction on the microstructure and mechanical properties of dissimilar joints formed by friction stir welding (FSW). The specimens were cut in two directions: perpendicular (transverse) and...
This article investigated the mechanical performance and corrosion behaviour of a diffusion-bonded A5083 aluminium/A36 mild steel dissimilar joint with a Gallium (Ga) interlayer. The bonding parameters were the bonding temperature (525 and 550 °C...
Modern industry requires different advanced metallic alloys with specific properties since conventional steels cannot cover all requirements. Aluminium alloys are becoming more popular, due to their low weight, high corrosion resistance, and relative...
The joining of aluminium alloys to steels has been extensively studied, especially in the automotive sector. However, aluminium alloys are known to be difficult to join with steels when methods involving fusion welding are used because of the hot cra...
In order to reduce CO2 emissions, an increasing interest in lightweight construction exists in the automotive industry, especially the multi-material-design approach. The main construction materials here are steels and aluminium alloys. Due to their...
Shipbuilding and offshore structures employ a wide range of metallic materials, from standard and high-strength steels to non-ferrous aluminium and titanium alloys. While welding remains the dominant joining method, the reliable joining of dissimilar...
To fabricate joints of dissimilar materials such as alumnium and titanium with excellent joint properties with limited defects, there is a need to use effective joining techniques. Friction stir welding (FSW) and friction stir spot welding (FSSW) are...
The demands for high-performance solid components are constantly increasing. The reason for this development are the steadily growing requirements such as weight reduction, higher resistance to load stresses, and more functional integration. By using...
This paper presents a numerical analysis of dimple spot welding (DSW) as an innovative joining technique for dissimilar materials, namely steel and aluminium alloys. Employing a finite element (FE) model, the study simulates the fatigue performance o...
The publication describes the approaches and results of the investigation of arc brazing processes to produce dissimilar joints of particle reinforced aluminium matrix composites (AMC) to aluminium alloys and steels. Arc brazing allows for low therma...
Diffusion bonding is a well-known technology for a wide range of advanced joining applications, due to the possibility of bonding different materials within a defined temperature-time-contact pressure regime in solid state. For this study, aluminium...
Direct aluminium–stainless steel joints are difficult to create by the vaporized foil actuator welding (VFAW) method because brittle intermetallic compounds (IMCs) tend to form along the interface. The use of an interlayer as a transition layer...
The AA6082-T6 and AA5754-H22 aluminium alloys were selected as the base materials to fabricate similar and dissimilar friction stir lap welds. Three lap configurations, AA6082/AA5754, AA5754/AA6082 and AA6082/AA6082, were produced using three pin pro...
This study aims to explore the effects of various pre- and post-weld heat treatments (PWHTs) on the microstructural and mechanical properties of dissimilar aluminium alloys, namely AA7075 and AA2024, joined through rotary friction welding. The joints...
Artificial-intelligence-based algorithms are used in manufacturing to automate difficult activities and discover workflow or process patterns that had never been noticed before. Recent studies deal with the forecasting of the fracture location in dis...
Friction stir welding (FSW) was carried out for the butt joining of dissimilar AA2024-T3 and AA7050-T7651 aluminium alloys with 2-mm thicknesses. A comparison between the position and orientation of different materials was performed by varying the we...
This study used the salt spray test (SST) method to analyze the corrosion reaction of friction stir welded (FSW) alloys that are different from each other, including AA5052-H32 and AA6061-T6. To understand the overall and specific corrosion behaviour...
Friction stir welding (FSW) is a promising welding method for welding dissimilar materials without using welding flux. In the present work, 5A06-H112 and 6061-T651 aluminium alloys were successfully welded by friction stir welding with forced air coo...
The restoration of numerous aircraft structures is achievable with effective repair of welded joints. T-joints are often utilized in these structures to provide structural stability, keeping minimal body weight. Multi-pass friction stir welding (FSW)...
Collision welding is a promising approach for joining conventional materials in identical or dissimilar combinations without heat-related strength loss, thereby opening up new lightweight potential. Widespread application of this technology is still...
Friction stir welding (FSW) of dissimilar aluminium alloys often results in non-uniform microstructure and hardness distributions due to asymmetric temperature fields and material flow. The objective of this study is to establish a quantitative relat...
In this study, continuous multi-pass friction stir welding was used to clad dissimilar AA6061 aluminium (Al) and C2801P copper (Cu) alloy materials. The empirical relationships between three process parameters and two-factor responses of Al–Cu...
The emergence of the aerospace sector requires efficient joining of aerospace grade aluminium alloys. For large-scale industrial practices, achievement of optimum friction stir welding (FSW) parameters is chiefly aimed at obtaining maximum strain rat...
This paper investigates the microstructural evolution and mechanical performance of dissimilar friction stir-welded (FSW) T-joints produced from AA5083-H111 and AA7020-T651 aluminium alloys. The study focuses on the effects of tool rotational speed,...
Diffusion brazing has gained much popularity as a technique capable of joining dissimilar lightweight metal alloys and has the potential for a wide range of applications in aerospace and transportation industries, where microstructural changes that w...
The reduction of consumption and pollutant emissions is a top priority for the transport sector. One working line is the substitution of conventional structural materials with lightweight materials such as metallic alloys of aluminium, titanium, and/...
The aeronautics industry’s competitiveness has led to the need to increase productivity with one shot drilling (OSD) systems capable of drilling stacks of dissimilar materials (fibre/metal laminates, FML) in order to reduce riveting times. Amon...
Joining metallic alloys can be an intricate task, being necessary to take into account the material characteristics and the application in order to select the appropriate welding process. Among the variety of welding methods, pulsed laser technology...
This research focuses on the computational modelling and comparative analysis of friction stir welding (FSW) and stationary shoulder friction stir welding (SSFSW) applied to AA6061-T6 aluminium alloy. SSFSW, an FSW variant, employs a stationary shoul...