Contents
1 Friction Stir Welding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Suman Kalyan Das, Suresh Gain, and Prasanta Sahoo
2 Fundamentals of Friction Stir Welding, Its Application,
and Advancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Atul Kumar Choudhary and Rahul Jain
3 Modeling of Friction Stir Welding Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
N. Bhardwaj, R. Ganesh Narayanan, and U. S. Dixit
4 An Application from a Defect—A Friction Stir Channeling
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Pooja Sarkar, Surjya Kanta Pal, Anandaroop Bhattacharya,
and Barbara Shollock
5 Welding of Dissimilar Metals—Challenges and a Way
Forward with Friction Stir Welding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Suryakanta Sahu, Surjya Kanta Pal, Mahadev Shome,
and Prakash Srirangam
6 Microstructure and Texture in Welding: A Case Study
on Friction Stir Welding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Soumya Sangita Nayak, Raju Prasad Mahto, Surjya Kanta Pal,
and Prakash Srirangam
7 Tubular Structures: Welding Difficulty and Potential
of Friction Stir Welding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Debolina Sen, Surjya Kanta Pal, and Sushanta Kumar Panda
8 Industry 4.0 in Welding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Debasish Mishra, Surjya Kanta Pal, and Debashish Chakravarty
9 Comparative Study of Laser Weldability of Titanium Alloys . . . . . . 299
J. M. Sánchez-Amaya and C. Churiaque
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