Fatigue Fracture and Microstructural Analysis of Friction Stir Welded Butt Joints of Aerospace Aluminum Alloys

Friction-Stir-Welding (FSW) has been adopted as a major process for welding Aluminum aerospace structures. Al-2195, which is one of the new-generation Aluminum alloys that has been used on the external tank of the new super lightweight external tank of the space shuttle. The Lockheed Martin Space Sy...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Raghuram, Vinay
Other Authors: Guo, Shengmin
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2009
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-08272009-003127/