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Fatigue Life Prediction of Friction Stir Linear Welds for Magnesium Alloys
Technical Paper
2016-01-0386
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Friction stir linear welding (FSLW) is widely used in joining lightweight materials including aluminum alloys and magnesium alloys. However, fatigue life prediction method for FSLW is not well developed yet for vehicle structure applications. This paper is tried to use two different methods for the prediction of fatigue life of FSLW in vehicle structures. FSLW is represented with 2-D shell elements for the structural stress approach and is represented with TIE contact for the maximum principal stress approach in finite element (FE) models. S-N curves were developed from coupon specimen test results for both the approaches. These S-N curves were used to predict fatigue life of FSLW of a front shock tower structure that was constructed by joining AM60 to AZ31 and AM60 to AM30. The fatigue life prediction results were then correlated with test results of the front shock tower structures.
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Kang, H., Khosrovaneh, A., Su, X., Guo, M. et al., "Fatigue Life Prediction of Friction Stir Linear Welds for Magnesium Alloys," SAE Technical Paper 2016-01-0386, 2016, https://doi.org/10.4271/2016-01-0386.Also In
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