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Explosive Welding of Light Weight Metal Sheets

The technique of explosive line welding is one of the processing techniques and it can connect similar and dissimilar metal sheets using large energy of explosive during very short time. In this study we try to weld lightweight metal sheets by experiment and work on the numerical simulation concerning a series of the phenomenon. Materials involved are aluminum alloys Al5052-O, 6061T6 and 6M83, magnesium alloy AZ31B-O and commercially pure titanium TP270C. After welding samples were taken to perform shear strength test and the welding interface was analyzed using optical microscopy. The strength test indicates a remarkable good bonding between similar welded metals. Particularly, the use of line welding shows a high strength to explosive mass ratio, making it a good candidate to be scaled up and used in commercial applications.

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