A review of dissimilar welding techniques for magnesium alloys to aluminum alloys

Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 3735-3757

  Liu, Liming ^a   Ren, Daxin ^a   Liu, Fei ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Aluminum alloys; Intermetallic compound; Magnesium alloys; Mechanical property; Review; Welding

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; INTERMETALLICS; JOINING; MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; RESEARCH; REVIEWS; WELDS;

DISSIMILAR WELDING; INTERMETALLIC REACTION; JOINING STRENGTH; METALLURGICAL REACTION; PROCESSING PARAMETERS; RESEARCH APPROACH; SOLID-STATE WELDING TECHNIQUE; WELDING TEMPERATURES;

WELDING;

EID: 84902579011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma7053735     Document Type: Review

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