Experimental Investigations on Aluminium Ultrasonic Welding Parameters

Abstract:

Research evolution timely tendencies, in the nonconventional technologies field, are: manufacture conditions optimization and complex equipments design. The increasing of ultrasonic machining use, in various technologies is due to the expanding need of a wide range materials and high quality manufacture standards in many activity fields. This paper present a experimental study made in order to analyze the welded zone material structure and welding quality. The effects of aluminium ultrasonic welding parameters such as relative energy, machining time, amplitude and working force were compared through traction tests values and microstructural analysis. Microhardness tests were, also, made in five different points, two in the base material and three in the welded zone, on each welded aluminium sample. The aluminum welding experiments were made at the National Research and Development Institute for Welding and Material Testing (ISIM) Timişoara. The ultrasonic welding temperature is lower than the aluminium melting temperature, that's so our experiments reveal that the aluminium ultrasonic welding process doesn't determine the appearance of moulding structure. In the joint we have only crystalline grains deformation, phase transformation and aluminium diffusion.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 657)
• Pages: 306-310
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.657.306
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Lăcrămioara Apetrei*, Vasile Rață, Ruxandra Rață, Elena Raluca Bulai
• Keywords: Aluminum Sheet, Metallographic Analysis, Microhardness, Ultrasonic Welding

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