The growing demand for lightweight materials in the automotive and aerospace industries
has driven research on joining dissimilar lightweight alloys, particularly Al and Mg alloys …

Friction stir welding (FSW) is a manufacturing process that many industries have adopted to
join metals in a solid state, resulting in unique properties. However, studying aspects like …

The interactions among thermal history, plastic deformation and residual stresses in the
friction stir welding (FSW) process under different welding parameters have been widely …

Complete understanding of the evolution behaviors of the microstructures and intermetallic
compounds (IMCs) along the interface materials flow path in friction stir welding (FSW) of …

Additive friction stir deposition has been proposed as a disruptive manufacturing process;
involving complex thermo-mechanical mechanisms during multilayer material deposition …

Current work explored solid-state additive manufacturing of AZ31B-Mg alloy using additive
friction stir deposition. Samples with relative densities≥ 99.4% were additively produced …

Friction stir welding (FSW) has been applied to many fields including aerospace
manufacturing and the railway industry. However, the interfacial friction behavior remains …

Friction stir welding and processing enabled the creation of stronger joints, novel ultrafine-
grained metals, new metal matrix composites, and multifunctional surfaces at user-defined …

Industrial revolution progressing with extensive utilization of the lightweight materials to
make parts using thermoplastic, fiber reinforced polymer and other light-weight metals in …

This study proposes a strategy for developing force-data-driven machine learning models to
precisely predict defects and their types in friction stir welding (FSW). The characteristics of …