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Thermal Stir Welding: A New Solid State Welding ProcessThermal stir welding is a new welding process developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. Thermal stir welding is similar to friction stir welding in that it joins similar or dissimilar materials without melting the parent material. However, unlike friction stir welding, the heating, stirring and forging elements of the process are all independent of each other and are separately controlled. Furthermore, the heating element of the process can be either a solid-state process (such as a thermal blanket, induction type process, etc), or, a fusion process (YG laser, plasma torch, etc.) The separation of the heating, stirring, forging elements of the process allows more degrees of freedom for greater process control. This paper introduces the mechanics of the thermal stir welding process. In addition, weld mechanical property data is presented for selected alloys as well as metallurgical analysis.
Document ID
20030062087
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Ding, R. Jeffrey
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2003
Subject Category
Metals And Metallic Materials
Meeting Information
Meeting: National Design and Engineering Show
Location: Chicago, IL
Country: United States
Start Date: March 3, 2003
End Date: March 7, 2003
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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