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Recent developments in steel friction stir welding : project HILDA
Friction stir welding of steel presents an array of
advantages across many industrial sectors compared to
conventional fusion welding techniques. Preliminary studies
have identified many positive effects on the properties of
welded steel components. However, the fundamental
knowledge of the process in relation to structural steel remains
relatively limited, hence industrial uptake has been essentially
non-existent to this date. The European-funded project
HILDA, the first of its kind in terms of breadth and depth, is
concerned with enhancing the understanding of the process on
low alloy steel, establishing its limits in terms of the two more
significant parameters which can be directly controlled, tool
traverse and rotational speed, thus improving its techno-
economic competitiveness to fusion welding.
A detailed study investigated the effect of process
parameters on the evolved microstructure. In parallel, a full
programme of mechanical testing was undertaken to generate
data on hardness, impact toughness and fatigue. From this, it
has been established that friction stir welding of steel produces
high integrity joints that exhibit excellent fatigue properties.
From a simulation perspective, a local microstructural
numerical model has been developed to predict the
microstructural evolution within the weld zone during friction
stir welding of low alloy steel. This model concentrates on
predicting grain size evolution due to dynamic
recrystallization with respect to tool traverse and rotational
speed. Furthermore, a computational efficient local-global
numerical model capable of predicting the thermal transients,
stir and heat affected zone, residual stresses and distortion
produced by friction stir welding of DH36 plates is presented.peer-reviewe
Newtonian Gravity and the Bargmann Algebra
We show how the Newton-Cartan formulation of Newtonian gravity can be
obtained from gauging the Bargmann algebra, i.e., the centrally extended
Galilean algebra. In this gauging procedure several curvature constraints are
imposed. These convert the spatial (time) translational symmetries of the
algebra into spatial (time) general coordinate transformations, and make the
spin connection gauge fields dependent. In addition we require two independent
Vielbein postulates for the temporal and spatial directions. In the final step
we impose an additional curvature constraint to establish the connection with
(on-shell) Newton-Cartan theory. We discuss a few extensions of our work that
are relevant in the context of the AdS-CFT correspondence.Comment: Latex, 20 pages, typos corrected, published versio
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