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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2017.18.12.679

Analysis of Friction Stir Welding Process of Mg alloy by Computational Fluid Dynamics  

Kim, Moosun (Metropolitan Transit Convergence Research Division, Korea Railroad Research Institute)
Sun, Seung-Ju (Advanced Materials Research Team, Korea Railroad Research Institute)
Kim, Jung-Seok (Advanced Materials Research Team, Korea Railroad Research Institute)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.18, no.12, 2017 , pp. 679-684 More about this Journal
Abstract
Friction Stir Welding is a metal welding technique, in which friction heat between a welding tool and a welding material is used to weld parts at temperatures below the melting point of a material. In this study, the temperature and velocity changes in a magnesium alloy (AZ31) during the welding process were analyzed by computational flow dynamics technique while welding the material using a friction stir welding technique. For the analysis, the modeling and analysis were carried out using Fluent as a fluid analysis tool. First, the welding material was assumed to be a temperature-dependent Newtonian fluid with high viscosity, and the rotation region and the stationary region were simulated separately to consider the rotational flow generated by the rotation of the welding tool having a helical groove. The interface between the welding tool and welding material was given the friction and slip boundary conditions and the heat transfer effect to the welding tool was considered. Overall, the velocity and temperature characteristics of the welded material according to time can be understood from the results of transient analysis through the above flow analysis modeling.
Keywords
AZ31; Boundary Condition; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Friction Stir Welding; Transient analysis;
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