Title of article :
OPTIMIZATIONAL STUDY OF FRICTION WELDING OF STEEL TUBE TO ALUMINUM TUBE PLATE USING AN EXTERNAL TOOL PROCESS
Author/Authors :
Kumar, C.V. National Institute of Technology - Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, India , Muthukumaran, S. National Institute of Technology - Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, India , Pradeep, A. National Institute of Technology - Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, India , Kumaran, S.S. National Institute of Technology - Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, India
Abstract :
In the present study steel tube and commercially pure aluminum tube plate are joined by friction welding of tube to tube plate using an external tool (FWTPET) and the process parameters are optimized. Taguchi’s L9 orthogonal array approach has been applied to determine the most influential control factors in order to yield better joint strength. The practical feasibility of the application of GA to FWTPET process has been validated by means of observing the deviation between predicted and experimentally obtained welding process parameters. The percentage contributions of each process parameters have been obtained using statistical analysis of variance (ANOVA).
Keywords :
Friction welding , FWTPET , Tube to tube plate welding , Taguchi method , Genetic Algorithm , ANOVA
Journal title :
International Journal of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Journal title :
International Journal of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
