Publications related to Forge welding

Control of intermetallics in the interface in directed energy deposition of titanium on stainless steel 316L

Application of a single metal or alloy is often restricted by its properties from optimal combination of performance and cost. Therefore, there is a vast need of joining dissimilar metals for various applications in biomedical, aerospace, automobile and ma ...

EPFL2023

Experimental Investigation of Instability-Free Welded Moment Connections With Simplified Weld Details

Dimitrios Lignos, Andronikos Skiadopoulos

In capacity designed steel moment resisting frames, inelastic deformations are mostly concentrated in the steel beams and the column fixed ends of the first story. This design concept limits the participation of the column web’s panel zone in the energy di ...

2023

Reliability analysis of welded stud shear connectors on simply-supported bridge girders

Scott Walbridge, Matthew James Sjaarda

This paper examines the reliability of welded stud shear connectors for steel-concrete composite bridge girders. A finite element model of a simply-supported bridge was created featuring link connector elements representing the shear studs between beam and ...

CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING2021

Performance of Embedded Bolt Shear Connectors

Scott Walbridge, Matthew James Sjaarda

A laboratory research program carried out at the University of Waterloo featured the testing of three large-scale steel-concrete composite beam specimens with embedded bolt shear connectors. A detailed assessment of the connector performance was made, faci ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2020

Stress intensity factors for axial semi-elliptical surface cracks and embedded elliptical cracks at longitudinal butt welded joints of steel-lined pressure tunnels and shafts considering weld shape

Anton Schleiss, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Alexandre Jean Pachoud

When for steel liners of pressure tunnels and shafts high-strength steels are used, welded joints are subject to the risk of hydrogen induced cold-cracking in the base material. Longitudinal butt welded joints are critical regions as they are loaded transv ...

Elsevier2017

Robotic Assistance by Impedance Compensation for Hand Movements While Manual Welding

Aude Billard, Mustafa Suphi Erden

In this paper, we present a robotic assistance scheme which allows for impedance compensation with stiffness, damping, and mass parameters for hand manipulation tasks and we apply it to manual welding. The impedance compensation does not assume a preprogra ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Calibration of partial safety factors for fatigue design of steel bridges

Alain Nussbaumer, Luca D'Angelo

The aim of this paper is to propose a new framework for assessment of fatigue partial safety factors with focus on steel bridges welded joints. Fatigue resistance S-N curves for constant amplitude (CA) and variable amplitude (VA) loadings are defined using ...

2015

Robotic training for hand movements during manual welding with real-time alarm feedback

Aude Billard, Mustafa Suphi Erden

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to develop a robotic training system for the hand movements during manual welding. The system provides real-time notice-feedback with sound or light alarms, whenever the welding hand vibrates beyond the nominal level ...

Emerald2015

Growth kinetics of Al-Fe intermetallic compounds during annealing treatment of friction stir lap welds

Hossein Najafi

In this study, we explored the growth kinetics of the Al-Fe intermetallic (IM) layer at the joint interface of the St-12/Al-5083 friction stir lap welds during post-weld annealing treatment at 350, 400 and 450 degrees C for 30 to 180 mm. Optical microscope ...

Elsevier Science Inc2014

Three-dimensional chemical analysis of laser-welded NiTi–stainless steel wires using a dual-beam FIB

Michel Rappaz, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Marco Cantoni, Pierre Burdet, Jonas Vannod

The biomedical industry has an increasing demand for processes to join dissimilar metals, such as laser welding of NiTi and stainless steel wires. A region of the weld close to the NiTi interface, which previously was shown to be prone to cracking, was fur ...

Elsevier2013

Multiscale, Multiphysics Numerical Modeling of Fusion Welding with Experimental Characterization and Validation

Jonathan Dantzig, Jun Liu, Yu Xie

Various physical interfacial phenomena occur during the process of welding and influence the final properties of welded structures. As the features of such interfaces depend on physics that resolve at different spatial scales, a multiscale and multiphysics ...

Springer Verlag2013

Effect of tool travel and rotation speeds on weld zone defects and joint strength of aluminium steel lap joints made by friction stir welding

Hossein Najafi

In this study, Al-5083 and St-12 alloy sheets were friction stir lap welded at different travel (7-23 cm min(-1)) and rotation (750-1125 rev min(-1)) speeds of the welding tool. The welded joints were characterised by various methods including shear tensil ...

2012

Laser Welding of Nickel-Titanium and Stainless Steel Wires : Processing, Metallurgy and Properties

Jonas Vannod

The biomedical industry has an increasing demand for dissimilar metal joining processes, which are used for complex configuration designs, such as guidewires and other intravascular interventional devices. Their production becomes more and more challenging ...

EPFL2011

Characterisation of Laser Welds, between Nitinol and Stainless Steel Wires

Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Michel Rappaz, Jonas Vannod

Nickel-Titanium (NiTi) shape memory alloys are often used in medical component devices, for instance as guide wires for neurological surgery applications. Manufacturing of such devices becomes more and more challenging, especially considering the need to j ...

2009

Characterization of the Residual Stresses and Strength of Ceramic-Metal Braze Joints

John Botsis, Matteo Galli

Residual stress relief in ceramic-metal joints produced by active brazing depends primarily on the plastic response of the filler metal. A procedure for the production and mechanical characterization of bulk active filler alloy specimens is developed. In p ...

2009

Nd:YAG laser joining between stainless steel and nickel-titanium shape memory alloys

Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Michel Rappaz, Jonas Vannod

Nickel-Titanium (NiTi) shape memory alloys are often used in medical component devices, for instance as guide wires for neurological surgery applications. The manufacture of such devices becomes more and more challenging, especially considering the need to ...

2008

Mechanical properties-micro structure correlation in neutron irradiated heat-affected zones of austenitic stainless steels

Nadine Baluc, Robin Schäublin

The effects of neutron irradiation on austenitic stainless steels, usually used for the manufacturing of internal elements of nuclear reactors (e.g. the core shrouds), are the alteration of the microstructure, and, as a consequence, of the mechanical prope ...

2007

Fatigue of bridge joints using welded tubes or cast steel node solutions

Alain Nussbaumer, Senta Haldimann, Ann Schumacher

In the design of recently constructed steel-concrete composite bridges using hollow section trusses for the main load carrying structure, the fatigue verification of the tubular truss joints has been a main issue. Recent research on the fatigue behaviour o ...

2006

Development of friction welding of wood : physical, mechanical and chemical studies

Bernhard Stamm

For several decades friction welding technology has found broad application in many fields of the metal and plastic connection industry. The fabricated joints are laminar or punctiform depending upon the shape of the parts to be welded. The work presented ...

EPFL2005

Joining wood by friction welding

Bernhard Stamm, Julius Natterer

At the Chair of Timber Constructions of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) tests were carried out to join wooden work pieces by friction welding without any additional welding deposit. It could be determined that this kind of tech ...

2005