中国有色金属学报(英文版)
Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China
| Vol. 29 No. 3 March 2019 |
（1. Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials, Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Ji’nan 250061, China;
2. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Welding and Joining, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China）
Abstract:The influence of the tool profiles on the thermo-mechanical interaction between AA6061-T6 workpiece and tool during friction stir welding was investigated. A customized experimental setup was employed to measure the feature points temperature and tool spindle torque in the process of FSW. Microstructure and tensile properties of stir zone (SZ) were characterized. Results indicate that the shoulder and pin geometries were responsible for the heat generation, tool torque variation at the plunging stage as well as the cross section contour of SZ, respectively. Finer grains in SZ resulted from flutes on shoulder and grooves on pin. Flat faces on the pin resulted in inhomogeneous grain size. Weld with higher 0.2% yield strength of 173 MPa was obtained by using the cylindrical pin tool while higher elongation weld of 32.0% was produced with triflat threaded pin tool.
Key words: friction stir welding; tool profile; thermal cycle; tool spindle torque; tensile properties
