Abstract:
The purpose of the present invention is to advantageously address reverse flow failures due to insufficient heating of materials to be processed when carrying out friction stir welding of structural steel, to give sufficient strength, and also to improve connection construction. In the present invention, a preheating treatment process is carried out during friction stir welding of structural steel, said preheating treatment process being a process wherein a steel sheet (3), which is the material to be processed, is heated by a heating means (5) provided forward of a rotary tool (1) that moves in a joining direction. The present invention is configured so that the surface temperature, surface area, position, and the like for the heating region in the preheating treatment process are strictly controlled.
Abstract:
A friction stir welding method for joining steel sheets to one another, wherein a heating device (4) positioned to the front in the direction of travel of a rotating tool pre-heats a section to be joined prior to joining thereof by the rotating tool (10), and when doing so, the surface temperature distribution in the direction perpendicular to the direction of travel at the position at which the joining by the rotating tool (10) starts is set in a manner such that given that TAc1 serves as the Ac1 point of a steel sheet, then the maximum temperature (TU) is in the range of 0.6×TAc1
Abstract:
When resistance spot welding a set of plates obtained by overlapping a plurality of steel plates comprising one or more steel plates having, on the surface thereof, a plating layer having zinc as the principal component thereof, a nugget having sufficient diameter is stably formed without any splashing, by: (1) starting conduction while in a state in which t and L satisfy the relational expression 0.9×t≤L≤1.1×t, given that the total thickness of the overlapping steel plates is t, and the distance of the center interval between top and bottom electrodes is L; and (2) dividing the conduction into a main conduction and an initial conduction preceding the main conduction, and with the initial conduction treated as two stages of conduction, setting the current value (I1) in the first conduction stage of the initial conduction so as to fall into a range satisfying, in a relationship with the current value (Im) of the main conduction, Im×1.1≤I1≤15.0kA, and setting the current value (I2) in the subsequent second conduction stage to be off or to be low-current conduction so as to satisfy 0≤I2≤Im×0.7.
Abstract:
A friction stir welding method for joining steel sheets to one another by moving a rotating tool (10) along a section to be joined while inserting and rotating the same into the section to be joined, where two or more steel sheets overlap or abut one another, and using the softening of the steel sheets caused by friction heat between the rotating tool (10) and the steel sheets, and the plastic flow caused by stirring, wherein, according to the present invention, heating devices (4), which are positioned above and below the section to be joined so as to sandwich the same, and positioned to the front in the direction of travel of the rotating tool (10), pre-heat the section to be joined prior to the joining by the rotating tool (10). Consequently, it is possible to join quickly without any risk of joining failures or joining-tool breakage.