Assessment of improvement techniques effect on fatigue behaviour of friction stir welded aerospace aluminium alloys

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1605-1616

  Vidal, Catarina ^a   Infante, Virgnia ^a   Vilaa, Pedro ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

AA2024 T351; Fatigue; Friction stir welding; Grinding; Taguchi method

Indexed keywords

AA2024-T351; ALUMINIUM ALLOYS; BASE MATERIAL; BENDING RESISTANCE; FATIGUE; FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR; FATIGUE RESISTANCE; FIELD CHARACTERIZATION; FRICTION STIR; FRICTION STIR WELDED JOINTS; IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUE; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; PROCESS PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAGUCHI DESIGN; VALIDATION TEST; WELD BEAD; WELDED JOINTS;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; CERIUM ALLOYS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRICTION; GAS WELDING; GRINDING (MACHINING); OPTIMIZATION; TAGUCHI METHODS; TRIBOLOGY; WELDED STEEL STRUCTURES; WELDS;

FRICTION STIR WELDING;

EID: 77954127716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18777058     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2010.03.173     Document Type: Conference Paper

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