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1. Introduction
In recent years, joining of dissimilar materials was
gradually investigated because it is capable of offering
complex functions and finding applications in variety of
fields such as thermal power station, nuclear industries,
petrochemical industries, aerospace, microelectronics,
automobile etc. For example, aluminum and magnesium
alloys are used by automobile industries because they are
attractive as lightweight structural materials to achieve
high performance and efficiency. However, steels are still
widely used as structural materials due to their high
absolute strength and good cost efficiency. Therefore, it
is becoming very important to join Al or Mg alloys to
steels to fabricate structural components, and dissimilar
welding technology is necessary.
Until this paper, because of the purpose of
lightweight and save cost, many researchers have done a
lot of work to join Al or Mg alloys to steels. But there are
few works to study the dissimilar joining of titanium
alloys to steels. Titanium alloys have good features such
as high specific strength, good high temperature
mechanical properties and excellent corrosion resistance,
thus have been applied in aerospace, transportation,
power generation and chemical industries. However,
wider use of these materials is limited by their expense.
One solution is to join titanium alloys to low-priced
conventional steels by which the usage of titanium alloys
can be reduced.
The major metallurgical problem of joining titanium
alloys with steels consists in formation of brittle
intermetallic phases, FeTi and Fe2Ti, as shown in Fig.1
[1], which make impossible direct joining by
conventional welding methods. To solve this problem,
researchers have tried many welding joining processes in
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Summary
With the wider and wider application of titanium
alloys, the dissimilar welding technique for joining
titanium alloys to steels will become more and more
important. Among the many welding processes tried up
to now, FSW is one of the most capable welding
processes for dissimilar welding of titanium alloys to
steels. However, there are still a lot of problems which
we dont understand completely, such as the parameters
of FSW for the influence of microstructure of the
dissimilar joint and we need to make unremitting efforts
for it in future.
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