Sustainability of Welding Process through Bobbin Friction Stir Welding

Malaysian Technical Universities Conference on Engineering and Technology 2017

Sued, M.K.^1 ; Samsuri, S.S.M.^2 ; Kassim, M.K.A.M.^2 ; Nasir, S.N.N.M.^2

Advanced Manufacturing Centre, Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Durian Tunggal, Melaka

76100, Malaysia^1

Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Durian Tunggal, Melaka

76100, Malaysia^2

关键词: Current consumption;    Electrical demand;    Friction stir welding(FSW);    Joining technology;    Joint formation;    Low energy consumption;    Welding process;    Welding technology;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/318/1/012068/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/318/1/012068

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Welding process is in high demand, which required a competitive technology to be adopted. This is important for sustaining the needs of the joining industries without ignoring the impact of the process to the environment. Friction stir welding (FSW) is stated to be benefitting the environment through low energy consumption, which cannot be achieved through traditional arc welding. However, this is not well documented, especially for bobbin friction stir welding (BFSW). Therefore, an investigation is conducted by measuring current consumption of the machine during the BFSW process. From the measurement, different phases of BFSW welding process and its electrical demand are presented. It is found that in general total energy in BFSW is about 130kW inclusive of all identified process phases. The phase that utilise for joint formation is in weld phase that used the highest total energy of 120kWs. The recorded total energy is still far below the traditional welding technology and the conventional friction stir welding (CFSW) energy demand. This indicates that BFSW technology with its vast benefit able to sustain the joining technology in near future.