ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELLING OF THE SURFACE ROUGHNESS OF FRICTION STIR WELDED AA7020-T6 ALUMINUM ALLOY | ||||
| Engineering Research Journal (Shoubra) | ||||
| Volume 46, Issue 1, October 2020, Page 1-5 PDF (521.65 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Research articles | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/erjsh.2020.228168 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| I. Abdullah1; S. S. Mohammed2; S. A. Abdallah2 | ||||
| 1Mechanical Engineering Department, Shoubra Faculty of Engineering, Benha University, Cairo, Egypt | ||||
| 2Mechanical Engineering Department, Shoubra Faculty of Engineering, Benha University, Cairo, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| In the present investigation, lap joints of the AA7020-T6 aluminum sheets were joined using friction stir welding (FSW). The AA7020-T6 sheets has 3 mm thickness. The FSW was carried out at three different tool rotational speeds of 1200 rpm, 1400 rpm and 1600 rpm; and three different welding speeds of 20 mm/min, 40 mm/min, and 60 mm/min. During FSW, the tool tilt angle and plunging depth were kept constant at 3o and 0.5 mm, respectively. The FSW was performed using a tool with a tapered pin profile and a flat shoulder. The surface quality of the FSW specimens was evaluated by the arithmetic average roughness value (Ra). The results revealed that increasing of the tool rotational speed and/or the welding speed increases the surface roughness of AA7020-T6 lap joints. The developed artificial neural network (ANN) model showed a good agreement between the predicted and experimental results. The ANN model exhibited mean relative error (MRE) of 3.8%. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Friction stir welding; Artificial neural network; Surface roughness; Design of Experiments | ||||
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