Finite element modeling and failure prediction of friction stir welded blanks

Materials and Design

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1423-1434

  Zadpoor, Amir Abbas ^a,b   Sinke, Jos ^b   Benedictus, Rinze ^b  

^a MATERIALS INNOVATION INSTITUTE M2I   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Failure prediction; FEM modeling; Friction stir welding; Springback; Strain field

Indexed keywords

BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; FAILURE PREDICTION; FEM MODELING; FEM MODELS; FINITE-ELEMENT MODELING; FORMING LIMITS DIAGRAMS; GEOMETRICAL PROPERTIES; IMPERFECTION PARAMETERS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SIMULATION TIME; SPRINGBACK; SPRINGBACK BEHAVIORS; SPRINGBACK PREDICTIONS; STRAIN DISTRIBUTIONS; STRAIN FIELD; TAILOR-WELDED BLANKS; TENSILE TESTS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORMING; FRICTION; FRICTION WELDING; GAS WELDING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PROGRAMMING THEORY; TENSILE TESTING; TRIBOLOGY; WELDING; WELDS;

FRICTION STIR WELDING;

EID: 60349098650     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2008.08.018     Document Type: Article

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