Characterisation of and guidelines for rotary friction welding of common metallic engineering materials

TWI Industrial Member Report Summary 824/2005

Dick Andrews and Kathryn Beamish

Objectives

• To investigate the relationship between peripheral velocity, applied force and material softening response in the generation of heat by friction
• To produce guidelines for effective peripheral velocities for continuous drive rotary friction welding in a range of commonly used workpiece materials of 12.7mm diameter