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Available online at Scripta Materialia 60 (2009) 13–16 /locate/scriptamat Torque, power requirement and stir zone geometry in friction stir welding through modeling and experiments A. Arora,a R. Nandan,a A.P. Reynoldsb and T. DebRoya,* aDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA bDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, SC, USA Received 10 July 2008; revised 13 August 2008; accepted 14 August 2008 Available online 26 August 2008 The torque, power requirement and stir zone geometry during friction stir welding of AA2524 aluminum alloy were modeled by solving the equations of conservation of mass, momentum and energy. The model predictions agreed well with the corresponding measured values for a wide range of welding speeds and tool rotational speeds when the heat transfer coefficient and the friction coefficient values were adjusted. 2008 Published by Elsevier Ltd. on behalf of Acta Materialia Inc. Keywords: Friction stir welding; Convection; Plastic deformation; Modelling; Aluminum alloys Although several numerical models of friction stir The temperature and velocity fields were solved welding (FSW) have been developed for the calculation assuming steady-state behavior. The plastic flow in a of heat generation rate [1–3] and heat transfer and mate- three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system is repre- rials flow [3–14], their testing has, for the most part, sented by the