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Effect of Oxide Array on the Fatigue Property of Friction Stir Welds

  • Caizhi Zhou
  • , Xinqi Yang
  • , Guohong Luan

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Abstract

The fatigue behaviour of single-sided friction stir (FS) butt welds containing oxide array was investigated. The oxide array makes cracks initiate easily under fatigue loading, and has a deleterious effect on the fatigue properties of FS welds. The fatigue characteristic values of FS welds with oxide array have been decreased by 35% for 5083 welds and 55% for 2024 welds at 2 x 10 6 cycles. The fatigue lives of FS welds with oxide array were 20-40 times shorter for Al 5083 welds and 30-80 times shorter for Al 2024 welds than those of sound welds under the stress ratio R = 0.1.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalScripta Materialia
Volume54
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 2006

Keywords

  • Butt Welding
  • Fatigue Of Materials
  • Friction Materials
  • Friction Stir Welding
  • Materials Science
  • Oxide Array
  • Stress Analysis
  • Stress Ratio

Disciplines

  • Materials Science and Engineering

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