Journal of Welding Science

In this study, to bond AA2024 and AA6061 alloys to each other, three elements (Sn, Zn and Ga)  were considered as interlayer elements in terms of atomic diffusion depth in the base metal and storage at 453°C for 2 days, 10 hours, 210 minutes, and 30 seconds that they were examined for atomic diffusion modeling. Finally, the two alloys were connected at a temperature of 453°C in a furnace environment under a vacuum of 7.5×10^-13 Torr under a transient liquid phase process. The effect of changing the thickness of the interlayer on the connection of the two alloys are examined with practical tests such as metallography, SEM, the distribution map of the elements, hardness test, the linear scan of the elements at the joint, and tensile strength test in two modes, 1: investigating the effect of changing the thickness of the interlayer on strength, and 2: investigating the change in joint strength by increasing sample retention time in the furnace. As the thickness of the interlayer increases (from 20 to 70 μm), the bond strength decreases. The maximum tensile strength of joint with the 20 μm thickness Sn-5.3Ag-4.6Bi interlayer is 52 MPa.
 

In Wire and arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) based on Gas metal arc welding (GMAW) is one of the methods of manufacturing metal layer by layer. One of this method's basic steps is predicting the welding geometry created in each welding step. In the current research, an experimental study was conducted in this field considering the effective parameters of welding geometry. For this purpose, three parameters of voltage, welding speed, and wire feeding speed were considered as effective parameters on the welding geometry of the process. The width and height of the weld bead was selected as the answer according to the type and application of the research. The least squares support vector machine was used to model the welding geometry in the process. The results obtained from the regression (R2) of train, test, validation, and total were 0.945, 0.793, 0.894, and 0.881 respectively. The comparison between the experimental data and the model data shows the significance of the proposed model.