Development of 5-Axis Friction Stir Welding System

Author

Okawa, Yuzou ; Taniguchi, Masasi ; Sugii, Haruo ; Marutani, Yoji

Author_Institution

Osaka Prefecturra Ind. Res. Inst.

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1266

Lastpage

1269

Abstract

A friction stir welding system with the flexibility of five axes has developed to join 3-dimensional curved surface. The features of the hardware of this system are: (1) the tool pressurization by an air cylinder is adopted. (2) In order to use for various researches, it has two kinds of FSW tool heads. (3) A 3-dimensional coordinate measuring instrument is installed to teach the weld line. The features of the software for this system are: (a) weld line is taught after a work piece is set on the table, (b) the control program is described by NC language, (c) the edition of welding conditions and the simulation of the tool path are available. This paper reports the structure and features of the system, and examples of FSW by the system

Keywords

coordinate measuring machines; friction welding; numerical control; robotic welding; 3-dimensional curved surface; 5-axis friction stir welding system; air cylinder; industrial robot; numerical control language; Aluminum alloys; Coordinate measuring machines; Copper alloys; Engine cylinders; Friction; Hardware; Instruments; Magnetic heads; Robot kinematics; Welding; 3-dimensional welding; friction stir welding; welding robot;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE-ICASE, 2006. International Joint Conference

Conference_Location

Busan

Print_ISBN

89-950038-4-7

Electronic_ISBN

89-950038-5-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICE.2006.315435

Filename

4109158