The never ending appetite of the mankind to produce more and more competitive products
results in continuous development of newer and newer manufacturing processes. One of …

Friction stir welding (FSW) is a new solid-state welding technique used to join similar and
dissimilar materials, especially aluminium alloys. Friction stir (FS) welding proposes …

A solid-state severe deformation-based additive manufacturing process, additive friction stir-
deposition (AFS-D), offers an innovative solution to achieve wrought-like mechanical …

Al–12Si samples produced by selective laser melting (SLM) are welded using solid-state
friction welding. The weld metal shows the presence of texture with excess Si diffusing out …

Dissimilar material joining is often more difficult than joining the similar material or alloys
with minor differences in physical properties and composition. The formation of deleterious …

Aluminum alloys have widespread use due to their superior properties. However, it exhibits
complex effects with its various intermetallic compounds formed by clustering of other …

Cold metal transfer (CMT) welding is a promising process to improve the mechanical
characteristics of the hard to weld 7075-T6 aluminium alloy owing to its unique advantages …

This encyclopedia, written by authoritative experts under the guidance of an international
panel of key researchers from academia, national laboratories, and industry, is a …

Friction stir welding (FSW) is a relatively new solid-state joining technique that is widely
adopted in manufacturing and industry fields to join different metallic alloys that are hard to …

The microstructure and hardness of the stir zone (SZ) with different welding heat inputs were
investigated for friction stir-welded 2024-T3 aluminum by transmission electron microscopy …