Volume : I, Issue : IX, June - 2012

Thermal Modeling and Analysis of Friction Stir Welding

Rankit Patel, Prof. Bindu Pillai

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Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is a revolutionary solid state welding technique. The amount of heat generated at the interface of tool & workpiece determines the quality of the welding. The heat flux must keep the maximum temperature in the workpiece high enough so that the material is sufficiently soft for the pin to stir but low enough so the material does not melt. Therefore thermal analysis of this process has very much importance. In this paper an attempt is made to simulate the FSW process in order to understand the temperature distribution during the FSW process using ANSYS. The main aim of this research work is to develop a simulation of Friction Stir welding & validation of the same with the available experimental data. SUMMARY In this paper computational simulation of Friction stir welding was carried out using Ansys software. Heat flux equation was used for the application of heat flow to the workpiece. The simulated results are inline with experimental results.

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Rankit Patel, Prof. Bindu Pillai Thermal Modeling and Analysis of Friction Stir Welding Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.I, Issue.IX June 2012

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