Friction wielding?
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Friction wielding?
Seem like Mazda has develope a method to wield aluminium and steel together to save wieght, with friction. This is supposed to be used on the MX-5, anyone knows if they try it
out on the 8 as well?
out on the 8 as well?
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Yep, it's called Friction Stir Welding (FSW). Very cool stuff. We are looking at using FSW to weld floor panels for the C-130J a/c. Check this out.
http://www.aluminum.org/ANTemplate.c...ContentID=7156
http://www.aluminum.org/ANTemplate.c...ContentID=7156
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