Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Investigation on the effects of SiC particle addition in the weld zone during friction stir welding of Al 6351 alloy

  • ORIGINAL ARTICLE
  • Published:
The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

This study attempts to incorporate SiC particles in the weld zone during friction stir welding of Al 6351 alloy. SiC particles of suitable size (12 μm) were added during welding at the weld zone through a special arrangement, and thus joined Al 6351 alloy plates were evaluated for their mechanical properties under two different conditions, i.e. in the as-weld condition and under annealed condition. The results of the study reveal that the mechanical properties of the SiC particle added Al 6351 alloy welded joints are superior in both as-weld and under annealed condition, compared to their plain Al 6351 alloy welded joints. Microstructural examination of the welded joints reveals that pinning effect of grain coarsening has occurred on account of addition of SiC particles in the weld region.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Mathers G (2002) The welding of aluminium and its alloys. Woodhead Publishing Limited, Abington Hall

    Book  Google Scholar 

  2. Thomas WM (1991) International patent application No. PCT/GB92/02203 and GB Patent Application No. 9125978.8,6, U.S. Patent No. 5,460,317

  3. Mishra RS, Ma ZY (2005) Friction stir welding and processing. Mater Sci Eng R 50:1–78

    Article  MATH  Google Scholar 

  4. Burford D, Widener C, Tweedy B (2006) Advances in friction stir welding for aerospace applications. National Institute for Aviation Research, Wichita State University. Airframer. Issue 14

  5. Shtrikman MM Current state and development of friction stir welding Part 3. Industrial application of friction stir welding Welding International. Vol. 22, No. 11, November 2008, 806–815. Selected Svarochnoe Proizvodstvo 2007 60(11): 36–45

  6. Nandan R, DebRoy T, Bhadeshia HKDH (2008) Recent advances in friction-stir welding—process, weldment structure and properties. Prog Mater Sci 53:980–1023

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Chen K, Gan W, Okamoto K, Chung K, and Wagoner RH (2010) The mechanism of grain coarsening in friction-stir-welded AA5083 after heat treatment. Doi: 10.1007/s11661-010-0426-9. The minerals, metals & materials society and asm international

  8. Cavaliere P, Cerri E, Marzoli L, Dos Santos J (2004) Friction stir welding of ceramic particle reinforced aluminium based metal matrix composites. Applied Composite Materials 11: 247–258, 2004. © 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands

  9. Root JM, Field DP, Nelson TW (2009) Crystallographic texture in the friction-stir-welded metal matrix composite Al6061 with 10 Vol Pct Al2O3. DOI: 10.1007/S11661-009-9883-4. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society and ASM International

  10. Fonda RW, Bingert JF (2006) Precipitation and grain refinement in a 2195 al friction stir weld. Metall Mater Trans A 37:3593

    Article  Google Scholar 

  11. Saito N, Shigematsu I, Komaya T, Tamaki T, Yamauchi G, Nakamura M (2001) Grain refinement of 1050 aluminum alloy by friction stir processing. J Mater Sci Lett 20:1913–1915

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Uzun H (2007) Friction stir welding of sic particulate reinforced AA 2124 aluminium alloy matrix composite. Mater Des 28:1440–1441

    Article  Google Scholar 

  13. Kim YG, Fujii H, Tsumura T, Komazaki T, Nakata K (2006) Effect of welding parameters on microstructure in the stir zone of Fsw joints of aluminium die casting alloy. Mater Lett 60:3830–3837

    Article  Google Scholar 

  14. Elangovan K, Balasubramanian V (2008) Influences of tool pin profile & shoulder diameter on the formation of FSPZ in AA6061 aluminium alloy. Mater Des 29:362–373

    Article  Google Scholar 

  15. Elangovan K, Balasubramanian V (2007) Influences of pin profile & rotational speed on the formation of FSPZ in AA2219 aluminium alloy. Mater Sci Eng A459:7–18

    Article  Google Scholar 

  16. Elangovan K, Balasubramanian V (2008) Influences of pin profile & welding speed on the formation of FSPZ in AA2219 aluminium alloy. J Mater Process Technol 200:163–175

    Article  Google Scholar 

  17. Minton T, Mynors DJ (2006) Utilisation of engineering workshop equipment for friction stir welding. J Mater Process Technol 177:336–339

    Article  Google Scholar 

  18. Karthikeyan P, Mahadevan K (2012) Study on the weld quality of the friction stir welded Al-6063 plates using square and pentagonal profiled tools. J Appl Sci 12(10):1026–1031

    Article  Google Scholar 

  19. Aghajanian M, Emmons C, Rummel S, Barber P, Robb C, Hibbard D (2013) Effect of grain size on microstructure, properties, and surface roughness of reaction bonded SiC ceramics. In: Robichaud JL, Krödel M, Goodman WA (eds) Material technologies and applications to optics, structures, components, and sub-systems, Volume 8837, 88370J

  20. Lara-Curzio E, Salem J, Zhu D (2007) Mechanical properties and performance of engineering ceramics and composites III. Wiley

  21. Jayaraman M et al (2009) Optimization of process parameters for friction stir welding of cast aluminium alloy A319 by Taguchi method. J Sci Ind Res 68:36–43

    Google Scholar 

  22. McNelley TR, Swaminathan S, Su JQ (2008) Recrystallization mechanisms during friction stir welding/processing of aluminum alloys. Scr Mater 58:349–354

    Article  Google Scholar 

  23. Raghavan V (2011) Materials science and engineering: a first course, 5th edn. PHI learning limited, New Delhi

    Google Scholar 

  24. Karthikeyan P, Mahadevan K (2013) The after effect of heat in the mechanical properties of friction stir welded AA 6351: a general study, national conference on latest innovation in mechanical engineering(LIME-2013). Department of mechanical engineering, Andhra university college of engineering(A)

  25. Liu H, Fujii H, Maeda M, Nogi K (2003) Tensile properties and fracture locations of friction-stir welded joints of 6061-t6 aluminum alloy. J Mater Sci Lett 22:1061–1063

    Article  Google Scholar 

  26. Sato YS, Kokawa H (2001) Distribution of tensile property and microstructure in friction Stir weld of 6063 aluminum. Metall Mater Trans A 32:3023

    Article  Google Scholar 

  27. Lee WB, Yeon YM, Jung SB (2003) The mechanical properties related to the dominant microstructure in the weld zone of dissimilar formed Al alloy joints by friction stir welding. J Mater Sci 38:4183–4191

    Article  Google Scholar 

  28. Karthikeyan P, Mahadevan K (2014) A statistical approach on the mechanical property evaluation on the friction stir welding of Al 6351 alloy with addition of reinforcement. IJISET – Int J Innov Sci Eng Technol 1(9)

  29. Karthikeyan P, Mahadevan K (2014) Evaluation of mechanical properties of friction stir welded Al 6351 aluminium alloy with reinforcement particles in the weld region. Adv Mater Res 893:361–364

    Article  Google Scholar 

  30. Karthikeyan P, Mahadevan K (2014) A study of modeling on the mechanical properties of friction stir welded Al 6351 plates added with SiC particles in the butt-joint region. Int J Mech Prod Eng 2(10), ISSN: 2320–2092

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry, 605014, India

    P. Karthikeyan & K. Mahadevan

Authors
  1. P. Karthikeyan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. K. Mahadevan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to P. Karthikeyan.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Karthikeyan, P., Mahadevan, K. Investigation on the effects of SiC particle addition in the weld zone during friction stir welding of Al 6351 alloy. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 80, 1919–1926 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-015-7160-9

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-015-7160-9

Keywords

Search

Navigation