This work focuses on porosity formation during the welding of dissimilar aluminium alloys (cast and sheet) by pulsed gas metal arc welding (GMAW) with different travel speeds (12-14 mm/s) and by friction stir welding (FSW). The case study concerns the assembling of a battery-pack enclosure prototype. The welded specimens were scanned by 3D X-ray computed tomography. The cast base material (BM) shows a porosity percentage of 1.45%, and it is characterized by pores with a strong hyperbolic relationship between equivalent diameter and sphericity. Considering the GMAW beads, porosity rises with the travel speed (from 1.80 to 5.12%), due to the reduction of the opening window in which pores can escape. Pores with volume higher than 0.10 mm 3 rise with the travel speed, representing from 9.75 to 32.98% of the total porosity. These pores are responsible for the weaker hyperbolic connection for sphericity found for the GMAW beads. On the other hand, FSW mixes and homogenizes the pores in the cast BM. The novelty of the paper lays in proving the strong potentialities of FSW for weld porosity reduction. A re-designing of the battery-pack enclosures is necessary to limit arc welding in marginal areas, which are not crucial for sealing but necessary to create a stable platform to be subsequently sealed with FSW.

Non-destructive detection and analysis of weld defects in dissimilar pulsed GMAW and FSW joints of aluminium castings and plates through 3D X-ray computed tomography / Orlando, Mattia; De Maddis, Manuela; Razza, Valentino; Lunetto, Vincenzo. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 0268-3768. - ELETTRONICO. - (2024). [10.1007/s00170-024-13576-x]

Non-destructive detection and analysis of weld defects in dissimilar pulsed GMAW and FSW joints of aluminium castings and plates through 3D X-ray computed tomography

Orlando, Mattia;De Maddis, Manuela;Razza, Valentino;Lunetto, Vincenzo
2024

Abstract

This work focuses on porosity formation during the welding of dissimilar aluminium alloys (cast and sheet) by pulsed gas metal arc welding (GMAW) with different travel speeds (12-14 mm/s) and by friction stir welding (FSW). The case study concerns the assembling of a battery-pack enclosure prototype. The welded specimens were scanned by 3D X-ray computed tomography. The cast base material (BM) shows a porosity percentage of 1.45%, and it is characterized by pores with a strong hyperbolic relationship between equivalent diameter and sphericity. Considering the GMAW beads, porosity rises with the travel speed (from 1.80 to 5.12%), due to the reduction of the opening window in which pores can escape. Pores with volume higher than 0.10 mm 3 rise with the travel speed, representing from 9.75 to 32.98% of the total porosity. These pores are responsible for the weaker hyperbolic connection for sphericity found for the GMAW beads. On the other hand, FSW mixes and homogenizes the pores in the cast BM. The novelty of the paper lays in proving the strong potentialities of FSW for weld porosity reduction. A re-designing of the battery-pack enclosures is necessary to limit arc welding in marginal areas, which are not crucial for sealing but necessary to create a stable platform to be subsequently sealed with FSW.
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