To create the new iMac, Apple’s thinnest desktop yet, the designers used friction-stir welding to join the aluminum body. Unlike arc welding, the more standard way to fuse metal plates, a friction ...

Friction stir welding joins previously unweldable materials. Friction stir welding, a relatively new process, is having a tremendous impact on welding dissimilar alloys. It was developed in 1991 by ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Twenty years ago, it was a revolutionary idea for welding metal together. Ten years later, it was critical technology for America's space shuttle. Today, the technology called ...

Retention of material properties: Minimizes material distortion. Safe operation: Does not create hazards such as welding fumes, radiation, high voltage, liquid metals or arcing. No keyholes: Pin is ...

The technique is debuting on the 2004 Mazda RX-8. Previously, resistance welding was the most feasible joining process for assembling aluminum body panels. This technique passes a large current ...

BYU manufacturing engineering professor Yuri Hovanski and a few of his research students discuss friction stir technology and its impact in the industry. (Anna Wilson) BYU manufacturing engineering ...

Tokyo - ClassNK announced that it had issued an approval to IHI Corporation for a friction stir welding (FSW) method using a floating bobbin tool. The approval certifies that this new method complies ...

Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced that its aluminum lithium plate is featured in NASA’s friction-stir welded, spun-form dome that makes its debut today at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

• The process is completed in a few seconds with very high reproducibility - an essential requirement for a mass production industry. Now, a new variant from the same stable of friction processes, ...