Friction stir welding and processing enabled the creation of stronger joints, novel ultrafine-
grained metals, new metal matrix composites, and multifunctional surfaces at user-defined …

Friction stir welding (FSW) is a manufacturing process that many industries have adopted to
join metals in a solid state, resulting in unique properties. However, studying aspects like …

Abstract Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a relatively new meshless numerical
approach which has attracted significant attention in the last two decades. Compared with …

With significant interest from the aerospace and defense industry, additive friction stir
deposition (AFSD) is an emerging solid-state metal additive process that can result in fully …

Friction stir welding is a relatively new solid-state joining technique which is widely adopted
in different industry fields to join different metallic alloys that are hard to weld by …

It is one concern of the researchers how magnesium (Mg) alloys solidify under different
conditions and how their microstructure evolves during solidification, and what are the …

Friction stir processing (FSP) has gained significant attention worldwide since its inception
due to its remarkable solid-state characteristics and microstructure refinement. However, the …

Friction stir processing (FSP) is a friction stir-based material processing method for
enhancement of material microstructural and surface properties. As FSP is a multi-physics …

In this study, the temperature and strain rate dependent physics of Additive Friction Stir
Deposition (AFS-D) are elucidated for the first time. Candidate constitutive models are …

Defective weld significantly hampers the quality of the weld and selection of optimum
process parameter which produces defect-free weld is an experimental tedious task. A …