Friction Stir Additive
Manufacturing—A Review
Dhruv Shah and Vishvesh J. Badheka
Abstract Aerospace and automobiles provide a great potential to the development
of metal additive manufacturing. Most of these techniques are fusion based and
face the drawback of solidification issues and are not applicable for every alloy.
Friction stir additive manufacturing (FSAM) is a family of novel techniques that
utilizes friction stir welding principle for layer-by-layer additive manufacturing of
materials. This technology is revered to be a breakthrough in the field of metal
additive manufacturing (MAM) due to the advantages of solid-state welding which
are intrinsic to these processes. The paper highlights the recent developments in the
much uncharted field of friction stir additive manufacturing, introduces the major
technologies of the FSAM and underscores the advantages of FSAM over its fusionbased counterparts. The paper also throws a light on the outlook and the potential of
FSAM technologies in the domain of industrial manufacturing. The paper sums up
by presenting some of the noteworthy research works done in this field.
Keywords Metal additive manufacturing · Solid-state additive manufacturing ·
Friction stir additive manufacturing
1 Introduction
Additive manufacturing (AM) is a technique of production based on an incremental
layer-by-layer production [1]. Additive manufacturing differs from conventional
machining which is subtractive in nature [2]. American Society for Testing and
Materials (ASTM) F2792 defines additive manufacturing as follows: “process of
joining materials to make objects from three-dimensional (3D) model data, usually
layer upon layer, as opposed to subtractive manufacturing methodologies” [3] AM is
D. Shah (B) · V. J. Badheka
Department of Mechanical Engineering, SOT, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU),
Raisan, Gandhinagar, Gujarat 382007, India
e-mail: Dhruv.mc15@sot.pdpu.ac.in
V. J. Badheka
e-mail: Vishvesh.badheka@spt.pdpu.ac.in
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
A. K. Parwani et al. (eds.), Recent Advances in Mechanical Infrastructure,
Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4176-0_2
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Manufacturing—A Review
Dhruv Shah and Vishvesh J. Badheka
Abstract Aerospace and automobiles provide a great potential to the development
of metal additive manufacturing. Most of these techniques are fusion based and
face the drawback of solidification issues and are not applicable for every alloy.
Friction stir additive manufacturing (FSAM) is a family of novel techniques that
utilizes friction stir welding principle for layer-by-layer additive manufacturing of
materials. This technology is revered to be a breakthrough in the field of metal
additive manufacturing (MAM) due to the advantages of solid-state welding which
are intrinsic to these processes. The paper highlights the recent developments in the
much uncharted field of friction stir additive manufacturing, introduces the major
technologies of the FSAM and underscores the advantages of FSAM over its fusionbased counterparts. The paper also throws a light on the outlook and the potential of
FSAM technologies in the domain of industrial manufacturing. The paper sums up
by presenting some of the noteworthy research works done in this field.
Keywords Metal additive manufacturing · Solid-state additive manufacturing ·
Friction stir additive manufacturing
1 Introduction
Additive manufacturing (AM) is a technique of production based on an incremental
layer-by-layer production [1]. Additive manufacturing differs from conventional
machining which is subtractive in nature [2]. American Society for Testing and
Materials (ASTM) F2792 defines additive manufacturing as follows: “process of
joining materials to make objects from three-dimensional (3D) model data, usually
layer upon layer, as opposed to subtractive manufacturing methodologies” [3] AM is
D. Shah (B) · V. J. Badheka
Department of Mechanical Engineering, SOT, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU),
Raisan, Gandhinagar, Gujarat 382007, India
e-mail: Dhruv.mc15@sot.pdpu.ac.in
V. J. Badheka
e-mail: Vishvesh.badheka@spt.pdpu.ac.in
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
A. K. Parwani et al. (eds.), Recent Advances in Mechanical Infrastructure,
Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4176-0_2
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