Friction stir welding is a relatively new solid-state joining technique which is widely adopted
in different industry fields to join different metallic alloys that are hard to weld by …

Friction stir welding (FSW) has developed as an alternative to conventional fusion-based
welding. This paper provides an overview of the recent research on “Friction Stir Welding …

In the present work, a set of finite element analyses (FEA) was carried out, using Abaqus to
reproduce the mechanical behaviour of integrally stiffened panels when subject to …

Wide stiffened aluminium panels are extensively used in aerospace, marine, and civil
industries due to their light-weight structure and high stiffness. In this paper, a wide stiffened …

Four welding methods, including laser welding, gas tungsten arc (GTA) welding, laser–GTA
hybrid welding, and laser–GTA hybrid welding with cold welding wire, are used to …

Al-Li alloy friction stir welded stiffened panels have been widely used in many complex
structures of aircraft due to their superior advantages. Static and fatigue shear tests were …

Experimental and numerical studies on the buckling behaviour of stiffened panels under four
point bending during creep age forming (CAF) have been carried out in this study for the first …

This work deals with the modelling and numerical simulation of aluminium stiffened panels,
assembled by means of friction stir welding (FSW) operations, and subjected to compressive …

Manufacturing-induced effects significantly affect in-service behaviour of welded structures,
such as integrally stiffened panels for aeronautic applications. Being a complex …

The increasing demand to decrease manufacturing costs and weight reduction is driving the
aircraft industry to change the use of conventional riveted stiffened panels to integral …