In this paper,2A12-T4 aluminum alloy sheet with a thickness of 1mm were selected for friction stir lap welding(FSLW),and influence of welding speed on hook formation characteristic and mechanical properties of FSLW joints was studied.The results show that,the formation characteristic of the hook is greatly affected by welding heat input.When a low welding speed of 95mm/min is used during FSLW process,as the welding heat input is large,weld plastic metal generates a violent circular migration along the thickness direction,and which causes the end of hook bending upward and a large amount of metal oxides accumulate,resulting in a small effective sheet thickness.When the welding speed is increased to 118mm/min,the welding heat input decreases,and the ability of cold metal to migrate upward decreases at the welding interface,resulting in the hook end beginning to bend downward.Increasing continuously welding speed to 235mm/min,the driving force of migration downward of the hook end is greater than that of the migration upward,causing the hook end bending downward.Moreover,a phenomenon of mechanical interlocking forms at the end,and the effective sheet thickness of the weld significantly increases,which can result in a maximum tensile shearing force of 3.790kN.The average tensile shearing strength is 400N/mm.The fracture mode of the joints presents obvious ductile fracture.It is not conducive to improving the forming quality of the joints with further increasing the welding speed.
aluminum alloy sheetfriction stir lap weldinghookformation characteristicmechanical properties