Talk:Friction stir welding

Schematic diagrams of the principle
The pictures used are nice, but it is hard to tell the direction of spin (that has to due with understanding the retreating and advancing edge stuff...)

There is certainly a heat-affected zone in FSW.

The schematics should be re-drawn more professionally, please --NearEMPTiness (talk) 18:40, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Other aircraft use
Airbus Industrie uses FSW on the main wing spar of their largest airliners. Two billets are joined together then machined due to there not being single billets manufactured in the size required.

Other spacecraft use
FSW is also used in the Ares launch vehicle, in the construction of the liquid hydrogen tank http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/ares/dome_weld.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.115.204.15 (talk) 16:10, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Photo of completed weld
This article would greatly benefit from a photo of a completed weld. Can someone contribute one, please? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.118.215.53 (talk) 19:02, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

It would be very nice indeed, to see more pictures of finished but unpainted friction stir welds. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 18:40, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Video links
The three video links point to pages that no longer exist. I suggest this one https://imgur.com/gallery/Yt0zHI9 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.224.99.118 (talk) 10:58, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Applications
Twenty years years after the invention of FSW a number of very challenging industrial applications exist. A lot of R&D work is done internationally and easily accessible via the internet, but a complete list of applications hasn't ever been published in one place. Therefore, such a list is very helpful to the FSW community and other readers of this article, if proper references are given. If necessary, we could reformat the list into a body of text, but it might loose its clarity. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 18:40, 9 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia isn't the place for such a list. WP:NOTDIR states: "A complete exposition of all possible details. Rather, an article is a summary of accepted knowledge regarding its subject." As such, it needs to be pared down to a summary of common applications. Usually the applications section is no longer than a paragraph. Wizard191 (talk) 19:25, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

What does the probe do?
The diagram shows a probe, but the article and its description do not explain its function. mattclare (talk) 00:26, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Probe = nib = pin. I replaced nib by now. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 17:48, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Ah so its?
So its a type of gluing then — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ur-loki (talk • contribs) 07:48, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
 * No, it is similar to forging, or - more precisely- like forge welding, where two pieces of hot metal are pressed together under a very high force.--NearEMPTiness (talk) 17:36, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Vandalism
This article is essentially incomprehensible. I read it 3 times and am none the wiser, except learning that some form of turning is involved (but of what exactly, I also don't know). Very poor, needs re-writing! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.115.8.205 (talk) 12:33, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Indeed, the process description had been vandalized. I have re-written it by now.--NearEMPTiness (talk) 17:36, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

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