Authors: G Q Chen Q Y Shi Y Fujiya T Horie
Publish Date: 2014/02/06
Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 1321-1328
Abstract
In this research the threedimensional flow of metal in friction stir welding FSW has been simulated based on computational fluid dynamics Conservation equations of mass momentum and energy were solved in three dimensions The interactive force was imposed as boundary conditions on the tool/material boundary in the model The strain rate and temperaturedependent nonNewtonian viscosity was adopted for the calculation of metal flow The distribution of temperature velocity and strain rate were simulated based on the above models The simulated temperature distribution agreed well with the experimental results The simulation results showed that the velocity on the pin was much higher than that on the shoulder From the comparison between the simulation results and the experiments results contours line corresponding to strain rate = 4 s−1 reflected reasonably well the shape of stir zone especially at the ground portionThe work was financially supported by MHI Japan under the project of “Development of numerical simulation during friction stir welding” The research work was also supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China under the Project No 2012ZX04012011
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