Application of Solid State Joining Technologies in Aerospace Parts

Abstract:

This study presents manufacturing lightweight aerospace components by solid state joining technologies. The advantages of solid state joining are due to the lack of hot cracking from solidification, since there is no liquid phase involved in joining process. This produces a high quality joint as compared to that from conventional fusion welding process. In diffusion bonding process, two different surfaces are matched together at elevated temperature under a low pressure without macroscopic plastic deformation in the interface. In friction stir welding process, the rotating shoulder of the tool generates frictional heat on the surface. As the pin rotates it forces the plastic material to mix mechanically in the vicinity of the pin and produces a heavily deformed microstructure around the pin. In this study, solid state joining processes of diffusion bonding and friction welding, are applied to manufacture several launcher components with lightweight, efficient and cost saving.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 837)
• Pages: 69-73
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.837.69
• Online since: April 2020
• Authors: Ho Sung Lee, Jong Hoon Yoon, Joon Tae Yoo*
• Keywords: AA2195, Aerospace, Diffusion Bonding, Friction Stir Welding, Solid State Joining, Steel, Ti-6Al-4V, Welding

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