Double-head double-sided high-efficiency friction stir welding device and welding method thereof
11077518 · 2021-08-03
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Cpc classification
B23K37/0235
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B23K20/1255
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
International classification
B23K20/00
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
Abstract
A double-head double-sided high-efficiency friction stir welding device includes a base (1), a pair of columns (2) arranged on the base (1), an upper beam (3), at least one worktable connected with a horizontal surface of the base (1), vision sensors (7) mounted on the upper head (5) and the lower head (6) and used for identifying the weld, and a CNC controller (8) used for controlling operations of the gantry, the upper head (5), the lower head (6), the worktable and the vision sensors (7).
Claims
1. A double-head double-sided friction stir welding device, comprising: a base; a pair of columns arranged on the base; an upper beam connected with the top ends of the columns, wherein an upper head is arranged on the upper beam; a lower beam connected between the lower ends of the columns, wherein a lower head is arranged on the lower beam and corresponds to the upper head up and down, the columns, the upper beam and the lower beam form a gantry having an integrated structure, the upper head and the lower head can move by a drive device and a transmission mechanism along an X-axis, a Y-axis and a Z-axis and rotate along the Z-axis, each pair of the upper head and the upper beam and the lower head and the lower beam is connected through a rotary shaft, and welding angle adjustment can be conducted on the upper head and the lower head through the rotary shafts; at least one worktable connected with a horizontal surface of the base, wherein the worktable is located between the upper head and the lower head, and the worktable and the gantry can relatively move to achieve welding; vision sensors mounted on the upper head and the lower head and used for identifying the weld; and a CNC controller used for controlling operations of the gantry, the upper head, the lower head, the worktable and the vision sensors, wherein a rail groove is formed in the upper surface of the base, and the gantry can conduct horizontal reciprocating movement along the rail groove under the drive of the linear motor or the motor-driven rack-and-pinion mechanism to form relative movement with the fixed worktable.
2. The double-head double-sided friction stir welding device according to claim 1, characterized in that the worktable comprises a fixed plate and a movable plate, which are used for loading multiple sets of components to be welded once, and locking mechanisms used for fixing; and by a plurality of strip-shaped slots relatively opened in the fixed plate and the movable plate, a plurality of welds of the components to be welded are sequentially completed.
3. A double-head double-sided friction stir welding device, comprising: a base; a pair of columns arranged on the base; an upper beam connected with the top ends of the columns, wherein an upper head is arranged on the upper beam; a lower beam connected between the lower ends of the columns, wherein a lower head is arranged on the lower beam and corresponds to the upper head up and down, the columns, the upper beam and the lower beam form a gantry having an integrated structure, the upper head and the lower head can move by a drive device and a transmission mechanism along an X-axis, a Y-axis and a Z-axis and rotate along the Z-axis, each pair of the upper head and the upper beam and the lower head and the lower beam is connected through a rotary shaft, and welding angle adjustment can be conducted on the upper head and the lower head through the rotary shafts; at least one worktable connected with a horizontal surface of the base, wherein the worktable is located between the upper head and the lower head, and the worktable and the gantry can relatively move to achieve welding; vision sensors mounted on the upper head and the lower head and used for identifying the weld; and a CNC controller used for controlling operations of the gantry, the upper head, the lower head, the worktable and the vision sensors, wherein anti-wear gaskets are arranged at the tail ends of friction stir welding heads of the upper head and the lower head, an external thread is also opened in the friction stir welding head, and a wear-resistant coating is sprayed on the external thread.
4. A double-head double-sided friction stir welding device, comprising: a base; a pair of columns arranged on the base; an upper beam connected with the top ends of the columns, wherein an upper head is arranged on the upper beam; a lower beam connected between the lower ends of the columns, wherein a lower head is arranged on the lower beam and corresponds to the upper head up and down, the columns, the upper beam and the lower beam form a gantry having an integrated structure, the upper head and the lower head can move by a drive device and a transmission mechanism along an X-axis, a Y-axis and a Z-axis and rotate along the Z-axis, each pair of the upper head and the upper beam and the lower head and the lower beam is connected through a rotary shaft, and welding angle adjustment can be conducted on the upper head and the lower head through the rotary shafts; at least one worktable connected with a horizontal surface of the base, wherein the worktable is located between the upper head and the lower head, and the worktable and the gantry can relatively move to achieve welding; vision sensors mounted on the upper head and the lower head and used for identifying the weld; and a CNC controller used for controlling operations of the gantry, the upper head, the lower head, the worktable and the vision sensors, wherein the worktable comprises a fixed plate and a movable plate, which are used for loading multiple sets of components to be welded once, and locking mechanisms used for fixing; and by a plurality of strip-shaped slots relatively opened in the fixed plate and the movable plate, a plurality of welds of the components to be welded are sequentially completed.
5. The double-head double-sided friction stir welding device according to claim 3, characterized in that a rail groove is formed in the inner side of the base, and the worktable can conduct horizontal reciprocating movement along the rail groove under the drive of a linear motor or a motor-driven rack-and-pinion mechanism to form relative movement with the fixed gantry, wherein the worktable comprises a fixed plate and a movable plate, which are used for loading multiple sets of components to be welded once, and locking mechanisms used for fixing; and by a plurality of strip-shaped slots relatively opened in the fixed plate and the movable plate, a plurality of welds of the components to be welded are sequentially completed.
6. The double-head double-sided friction stir welding device according to claim 3, characterized in that raw materials of the anti-wear gasket and the wear-resistant coating comprise: 70-80 percent by weight of tungsten carbide powder, 4-6 percent by weight of alumina fiber, 5-7 percent by weight of titanium dioxide powder, 1-3 percent by weight of vanadium oxide and the balance of graphite powder; a manufacturing method of the anti-wear gasket comprises: smelting the above raw materials; conducting femtosecond laser disordering irradiation; cooling, re-smelting and then repeatedly conducting the above operations for 5-8 times; casting, and forging forming to obtain an interior-reshaped anti-wear bar; and welding the anti-wear bar and the tail end of the friction stir welding head by utilizing a cold pressure welding technology, cutting the anti-wear bar by a certain thickness to form the anti-wear gasket, and grinding and polishing to complete the manufacturing of the anti-wear gasket; and a manufacturing method of the wear-resistant coating comprises: after smelting the above raw materials and conducting the femtosecond laser disordering irradiation, utilizing laser re-smelting and high velocity oxygen fuel methods to crystallize on the external thread to form a coating.
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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(14) In the drawings: 1—base, 2—column, 3—upper beam, 4—lower beam, 5—upper head, 6—lower head, 7—vision sensor, 8—CNC controller, 9—rail groove I, 10—rail groove II, 11—component to be welded, 12—fixed plate, 13—movable plate, 14—locking mechanism, 15—strip-shaped slot, 16—friction stir welding head, 17—anti-wear gasket, 18—external thread, 19—first worktable, 20—second worktable, and 21—third worktable.
DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS
(15) Embodiment 1: as shown in
(16) Wherein the columns 2, the upper beam 3 and the lower beam 4 form a gantry having an integrated structure, the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 can move by a drive device and a transmission mechanism along an X-axis, a Y-axis and a Z-axis and rotate along the Z-axis, movement of the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 along the X-axis and the Y-axis is driven by utilizing a linear motor in a screw guide rail or rack-and-pinion guide rail transmission manner, movement of the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 along the Z-axis can utilize a manner of servo electric cylinder transmission, hydraulic transmission, screw transmission, rack-and-pinion transmission and the like, rotation of the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 along the Z-axis can utilize a manner of combining an electric spindle or a mechanical spindle with a motor, and the motor can be a servo motor or an asynchronous motor. Furthermore, the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 have a function of automatically adjusting a technological swing angle, and can adjust a rotation angle.
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(19) By utilizing the device of the embodiment, a method for welding an aluminium alloy sheet with the thickness of 30 mm comprises the following steps:
(20) S1: loading a component to be welded on the first worktable 19 and the second worktable 20, and starting a motor to drive the first worktable 19 to move towards the gantry under the navigation of the vision sensors 7 while the second worktable 20 is located at an idle station;
(21) S2: adjusting the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 to simultaneously align to and be gradually close to the same welding starting point of a left end weld on the first worktable 19; ensuring that friction stir welding heads 16 of the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 rotate in situ at a speed of 100 r/min to enter the interior of the component to be welded till the tail ends of the upper and lower friction stir welding heads 16 reach a depth equal to 40% thickness of the component to be welded 11, wherein the tail ends of the upper and lower friction stir welding heads 16 are not contacted to prevent wear; then ensuring that the upper and lower friction stir welding heads 16 synchronously move forwards at a welding speed of 100 mm/min and simultaneously withdraw when reaching a welding tail end so as to complete ending welding of an upper surface and a lower surface of the same weld to be welded;
(22) S3: ensuring the upper head 5 to move along the upper beam 3 in the Y-axis direction and the lower head 6 to move along the lower beam 4 in the Y-axis direction, and repeatedly conducting the step S2 till welding of all welds of the component to be welded on the first worktable 19 is completed; and
(23) S4: moving the second worktable 20 at the idle station to a welding region of the gantry, repeatedly conducting the steps S1, S2 and S3, at this time, unloading the welding-completed component with the cooperation of a manipulator, and reloading a component to be welded.
(24) Embodiment 2: as shown in
(25) Wherein the columns 2, the upper beam 3 and the lower beam 4 form a gantry having an integrated structure, the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 can move by a drive device and a transmission mechanism along an X-axis, a Y-axis and a Z-axis and rotate along the Z-axis, movement of the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 along the X-axis and the Y-axis is driven by utilizing a linear motor in a screw guide rail or rack-and-pinion guide rail transmission manner, movement of the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 along the Z-axis can utilize a manner of servo electric cylinder transmission, hydraulic transmission, screw transmission, rack-and-pinion transmission and the like, rotation of the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 along the Z-axis can utilize a manner of combining an electric spindle or a mechanical spindle with a motor, and the motor can be a servo motor or an asynchronous motor. Furthermore, the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 have a function of automatically adjusting a technological swing angle, and can adjust a rotation angle.
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(28) By utilizing the device of the embodiment, a method for welding an aluminium alloy sheet with the thickness of 30 mm comprises the following steps:
(29) S1: loading a component to be welded on the first worktable 19 and the second worktable 20, and driving the first worktable 19 to move towards the gantry under the navigation of the vision sensors 7 while the second worktable 20 is located at an idle station;
(30) S2: adjusting the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 to simultaneously align to and be gradually close to the same welding starting point of a left end weld on the first worktable 19; ensuring that friction stir welding heads 16 of the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 rotate in situ at a speed of 200 r/min to enter the interior of the component to be welded till the tail ends of the upper and lower friction stir welding heads 16 are in contact; then ensuring that the upper head 5 feeds an amount equal to the diameter of one friction stir welding head 16 along the X-axis in order that the upper and lower friction stir welding heads 16 are interleaved mutually; ensuring that the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 to simultaneously feed an amount equal to 10% thickness of the component to be welded along the Z-axis in order that the upper and lower friction stir welding heads 16 are interleaved mutually and their working regions are partially overlapped; then ensuring that the upper and lower friction stir welding heads 16 synchronously move forwards at a rotational speed of 500 r/min and a welding speed of 200 mm/min and sequentially withdraw when reaching a welding tail end so as to complete ending welding of an upper surface and a lower surface of the same weld to be welded;
(31) S3: ensuring the upper head 5 to move along the upper beam 3 in the Y-axis direction and the lower head 6 to move along the lower beam 4 in the Y-axis direction, and repeatedly conducting the step S2 till welding of all welds of the component to be welded on the first worktable 19 is completed; and
(32) S4: moving the gantry to a welding region of the second worktable 20 at the idle station, repeatedly conducting the steps S1, S2 and S3, at this time, unloading the welding-completed component with the cooperation of a manipulator, and reloading a component to be welded.
(33) Embodiment 3: the present embodiment and Embodiment 1 are basically the same, and the difference lies in:
(34) (1), in the embodiment, an anti-wear gasket 17 is arranged at the tail end of the friction stir welding head 16, and a manufacturing method of the anti-wear gasket 17 is as follows: mixing 80% tungsten carbide powder, 6% alumina fiber, 7% titanium dioxide powder, 3% vanadium oxide and 4% graphite powder to be smelted to liquid alloy; conducting femtosecond laser disordering irradiation, wherein the repetition frequency of a femtosecond laser is 95 MHz, the frequency of a chopper is adjusted to 4000 Hz, femtosecond pulse number in each chipping cycle is about 18776, and the irradiation time is 6 min; then gradually cooling the liquid alloy to a solid state, re-smelting, repeatedly conducting the above operations for six times, casting and forging forming to obtain an interior-reshaped anti-wear bar; and welding the anti-wear bar and the tail end of the friction stir welding head 16 by utilizing a cold pressure welding technology, cutting the anti-wear bar by a certain thickness to form the anti-wear gasket 17, and grinding and polishing to complete the manufacturing of the anti-wear gasket.
(35) (2), S2 specifically comprises: adjusting the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 to simultaneously align to and be gradually close to the same welding starting point of a left end weld on the first worktable 19; ensuring that friction stir welding heads 16 of the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 rotate in situ at a speed of 800 r/min to enter the interior of the component to be welded till the tail ends of the upper and lower friction stir welding heads 16 reach a depth equal to 40% thickness of the component to be welded 11, wherein the tail ends of the upper and lower friction stir welding heads 16 are not contacted to prevent wear; then ensuring that the upper and lower friction stir welding heads 16 synchronously move forwards at a welding speed of 1500 mm/min and simultaneously withdraw when reaching a welding tail end so as to complete ending welding of an upper surface and a lower surface of the same weld to be welded.
(36) Embodiment 4: the present embodiment and Embodiment 2 are basically the same, and the difference lies in:
(37) (1), in the embodiment, an anti-wear gasket 17 is arranged at the tail end of the friction stir welding head 16, and an external thread 18 is opened in the outer side of the friction stir welding head 16.
(38) (2,) S2 specifically comprises: adjusting the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 to simultaneously align to and be gradually close to the same welding starting point of a left end weld on the first worktable 19; ensuring that friction stir welding heads 16 of the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 rotate in situ at a speed of 15000 r/min to enter the interior of the component to be welded till the tail ends of the upper and lower friction stir welding heads 16 are in contact; then ensuring that the upper head 5 feeds an amount equal to the diameter of one friction stir welding head 16 along the X-axis in order that the upper and lower friction stir welding heads 16 are interleaved mutually; ensuring that the upper head 5 and the lower head 6 to simultaneously feed an amount equal to 10% thickness of the component to be welded along the Z-axis in order that the upper and lower friction stir welding heads 16 are interleaved mutually and their working regions are partially overlapped; then ensuring that the upper and lower friction stir welding heads 16 synchronously move forwards at a rotational speed of 15000 r/min and a welding speed of 7000 mm/min and sequentially withdraw when reaching a welding tail end so as to complete ending welding of an upper surface and a lower surface of the same weld to be welded.
(39) Embodiment 5: the present embodiment and Embodiment 4 are basically the same, and the difference lies in: a wear-resistant coating is sprayed on the external thread 18. A manufacturing method of the wear-resistant coating is: after smelting the above raw material elements and conducting femtosecond laser disordering irradiation, utilizing laser re-smelting and high velocity oxygen fuel methods to crystallize on the external thread 18 to form a coating, wherein the laser re-smelting adopts a fiber laser, its process parameters comprise defocus amount of 3 mm, scanning speed of 3 mm/s, and laser power of 1000 W, and a laser beam is a constant rectangular spot of 1 mm*1 mm. Due to a great particle impact velocity, the sprayed coating and the surface of the friction stir welding head 16 have great bonding strength and are not easy to remove during friction.
(40) Embodiment 6: the present embodiment selects 30 sets of aluminium alloy sheets each with the size of 500 mm*200 mm*8 mm as the experimental material and uses the device of the present disclosure as the experimental object to study working efficiency of devices respectively equipped with different numbers of worktables.
(41) Experiment group 1: as shown in
(42) Experiment group 2: as shown in
(43) Experiment group 3: as shown in
(44) Experiment group 4: a device of the Chinese Patent Application No. CN102481659A is used for welding; and
(45) Experiment group 5: one-side sequential welding is conducted in a traditional manner.
(46) In Experiment groups 1-5, three sets of components to be welded are simultaneously loaded, the welding speed is 350 mm/min, the other conditions are the same, and results for welding efficiency of four groups are shown in Table 1:
(47) TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 Comparison of welding efficiency results of 30 aluminum alloy welding components Ex- Ex- Ex- Ex- Ex- periment periment periment periment periment group 1 group 2 group 3 group 4 group 5 Total 52.8 51.3 51.1 75.8 108.0 time/min Average 1.76 1.71 1.70 2.53 3.60 time/min
(48) Conclusion: base on Table 1, the times of welding a single set of components to be welded by utilizing the device of the present disclosure in Experiment groups 1-3 are almost the same, wherein the times of Experiment group 2 and Experiment group 3 are basically the same about 1.7 min, and by considering investment and size of the device, an arrangement of two worktables is the optimal arrangement. The average time of the device in Embodiment group 4 is 2.53 min and is greater than that of the device in Embodiment groups 1-3, and the device does not have a function of simultaneously welding multiple sets of components to be welded so as to relatively waste time in loading and unloading processes. In Experiment group 5, one-side welding is utilized, and overturning and flash polishing consume too much time, so its average time is the greatest and is 3.6 min.
(49) Embodiment 7: the present embodiment selects 30 sets of aluminium alloy sheets each with the size of 500 mm*200 mm*8 mm as the Experimental material to study influence on weldment quality when the device of the present disclosure uses different welding manners to weld components.
(50) Experiment group 1: as shown in
(51) Experiment group 2: after the tail ends of the upper and lower friction stir welding heads 16 are in contact when entering the interior of the component to be welded 11, the upper head 5 feeds an amount equal to the diameter of one friction stir welding head 16 along the X-axis in order that the upper and lower friction stir welding heads 16 are interleaved mutually and in contact; as shown in
(52) Experiment group 3: the experiment group and Experiment group 1 are basically the same, and the difference lies in: the tail end of the friction stir welding head 16 is not provided with the anti-wear gasket 17;
(53) Experiment group 4: the experiment group and Experiment group 3 are basically the same, and the difference lies in: as shown in
(54) Experiment group 5: the experiment group and Experiment group 2 are basically the same, and the difference lies in: the two friction stir welding heads 16 are mutually interleaved and are not in contact, as shown in
(55) Experiment group 6: the experiment group and Experiment group 2 are basically the same, and the difference lies in: the outer side of the friction stir welding head 16 only is provided with the external thread 18 and is not provided with the wear-resistant coating; and
(56) Experiment group 7: the experiment group and Experiment group 2 are basically the same, and the difference lies in: the outer side of the friction stir welding head 16 only is provided with the wear-resistant coating and is not provided with the external thread 18.
(57) The 30 sets of aluminium alloy sheets each with the size of 500 mm*200 mm*8 mm are respectively welded by utilizing the welding methods of Embodiment groups 1-7, and in the accumulated time of 100 h, performance detection is conducted on finished products which complete the welding, and the results are shown in Table 2.
(58) TABLE-US-00002 TABLE 2 Performance detection results of welding finished-products and friction stirring welding heads by different welding methods Friction Cross Joint stir Tensile section strength welding strength/ roughness/ Elongation coefficient head wear Group MPa micron (%) (%) rate (%) Experiment 269 10.6 26.9 96.1 1.1 1 Experiment 298 5.5 29.5 98.6 0.7 group 2 Experiment 280 12.5 24.0 93.6 6.7 3 Experiment 281 12.3 23.8 93.8 0.5 4 Experiment 276 6.5 26.4 96.8 0.6 5 Experiment 284 6.8 27.3 97.3 5.2 6 Experiment 270 8.5 25.8 95.0 1.2 group 7
(59) Conclusion: based on Table 2, all items of finished product performance detection in Experiment group 2 are optimal, and interleaving and overlapping stirring helps the stirring to be more fully so that the cross section roughness is smaller. In Experiment group 4, under the protection of the anti-wear gasket and the wear-resistant coating, the upper and lower friction stir welding heads are not in contact, so the wear rate is the lowest and only is 0.5%; a second wear rate is 0.6% in Experiment group 5, wherein the two friction stir welding heads are interleaved, and their extension length in the component to be welded is greater than that in Experiment group 4, so the wear is slightly serious; and in Experiment group 2, the external threads of the two friction stir welding heads 16 need to be rubbed, so the wear rate is higher and is 0.7%.
(60) Embodiment 8: the anti-wear gaskets manufactured by utilizing different materials and manufacturing methods are relatively propped, and the wear resistance of the anti-wear gaskets manufactured by utilizing different materials is tested by utilizing a rotational speed of 400 r/min within an accumulated time of 100 h, as shown in Table 3:
(61) TABLE-US-00003 TABLE 3 Test on wear resistance of anti-wear gaskets manufactured by different materials Whether to utilize femtosecond laser Wear rate Group Material irradiation (%) First group The present Yes 1.1% invention Second group The present No 1.3% invention Third group Copper-tungsten Yes 1.6% alloy Fourth group Copper-tungsten No 1.7% alloy Fifth group High manganese Yes 2.5% steel Sixth group High manganese No 2.7% steel
(62) Conclusion: based on the embodiment, the lowest wear rate of the manufactured anti-wear gasket is 1.1%, and furthermore, on the premise of utilizing the same material, the wear rate of the anti-wear gasket utilizing the femtosecond laser irradiation is lower than that of the anti-wear gasket not utilizing the femtosecond laser irradiation.