ASSESSMENT OF EFFECTIVE NUGGET SIZE, NUGGET ROTATION AND FAILURE MODE OF FRICTION STIR SPOT WELDS OF AA2219-O ALLOY

• Olatunji Oladimeji Ojo

  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Federal University of Technology Akure, Ondo State. Nigeria.

• Taban Emel

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kocaeli University, Turkey

Weld nugget is core for the integrity of friction stir spot welds. Based on this understanding, the investigation of nugget size, nugget rotation and weld failure mode of friction stir spot welded aluminium alloy of AA2219-O was examined. Tapered pin and featureless pin-less tools were employed in welding the alloy at varying tool rotational speed, dwell time and shoulder plunge depths. Intense nugget rotation and feeble nugget rotation were observed in pinless and conical pin welds respectively. However, bonded size or nugget size was predominantly controlled by tool rotational speed and plunge depth in both categories of weld; the percentage contributions of plunge depth in pinless and conical pin welds are 83.97% and 41.68% respectively. Conical pin weld failed via nugget shear failure across the ring-like weld nugget whereas nugget pull-out and interfacial weld failures were obtained in pinless weld.

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