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A study on the formability of aluminum tailor welded blanks produced by friction stir welding

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Tailored welded blanks (TWBs) technology can give an important possibility to obtain components in automobile industry satisfying lightweight strategies as well as satisfying increased crashworthiness, corrosion resistance, and accuracy. Friction stir welding (FSW) is a joining process, which can be well fitted to obtaining aluminum tailored blanks when compared to other conventional joining processes. This paper presents an experimental study on TWBs produced by FSW with dissimilar aluminum alloy thin sheets. The formability performance is investigated by obtaining forming limit curves with Nakajima test using different blank widths. The properties of welded AA5182/AA6061 alloy pair, 1 mm thick, are studied and the corresponding formability is compared to base materials. Different weld line orientations are defined related to sheet rolling direction and corresponding forming limit curves are obtained in addition to load–displacement behavior. Results show a dependency of TWB formability on weld line orientation, as well as a decrease of welded pair alloy formability when compared to base materials.

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  1. INEGI, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Marco Parente, Abel D. Santos & R. M. Natal Jorge

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Behbahan Khatam Alanbia University of Technology, Behbahan, Khoozestan, Iran

    R. Safdarian

  3. FEUP—Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Campus da FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias 400, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    Marco Parente, Abel D. Santos & R. M. Natal Jorge

  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, CEMUC, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Altino Loureiro

  5. Department of Engineering Design Production, School of Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

    Pedro Vilaca

  6. LAETA—Associated Laboratory for Energy, Transports and Aeronautics Lisbon, Porto Coimbra, Portugal

    Marco Parente & R. M. Natal Jorge

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Parente, M., Safdarian, R., Santos, A.D. et al. A study on the formability of aluminum tailor welded blanks produced by friction stir welding. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 83, 2129–2141 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-015-7950-0

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