TY - BOOK AU - Mostafa Ahmed Mohamed Said Abdelrahman AU - Mohamed Mahmoud Ghoneim , AU - Mohamed Raaft Elkoussy , AU - Nahed Ahmed Abdelraheem , TI - Friction stir welding of 6061 aluminum alloy / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mostafa Ahmed Mohamed Said Abdelrahman , KW - Friction stir welding KW - Traverse speed KW - Zigzag line N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Metallurgical Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - Friction stir welding (FSW) is a solid state joining process . Several FSW tools have been used to fabricate a number of joints in order to obtain a tool with which a sound weld can be produced . It was found that the FSW tool with tapered cone pin and concave shoulder with diameter equal to four times the plate thickess is suitable to produce a sound weld UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -