Friction Welding
Friction Welding
Disadvantages
Friction welding is a solid state welding process. Solid state welding are those
welding process in which no external heat is applied or no molten or plastic state
involves. In this type of welding, welding occurs due to external pressure applied into
the solid state. In friction welding process, both the plates or work piece to be joint
are in either rotating or moving relative to one another. This relative movement
produces friction which displaces material plastically on contact surface. A high
pressure forced applied till completed the weld. This welding is used to joint steel
bars, tubes up to 100 mm diameter.
Principle:
Friction welding works on basic principle of friction. In this welding process, the
friction is used to generate heat at the interference surface. This heat is further used
to join two work pieces by applying external pressure at the surface of work piece. In
this welding process, the friction is applied until the plastic forming temperature is
achieved. It is normally 900-1300 degree centigrade for steel. After this heating
phase, a uniformly increasing pressure force applied until the both metal work pieces
makes a permanent joint. This joint is created due to thermo mechanical treatment at
the contact surface.
Working:
There are many types of friction welding processes which works differently. But all
different these processes involves common a working principle which can be
summarize as follow.