Effect of Friction Stir Processing on Gas Tungsten Arc-Welded and Friction Stir-Welded 5083-H111 Aluminium Alloy Joints

Table 7

Friction stir-processed and unprocessed FSWed joints results.

Sample	Rρ0.2 yield strength (MPa)	Ultimate tensile strength (MPa)	Percentage elongation (%)	Joint efficiency (%)
Base metal		350	16
A	174.528	256.806	16.54	74.88
B	162.167	258.75	18.54	73.93
C	179.861	262.083	17.11	73.37
A2	139.722	286.028	30.52	81.72
B2	156.806	299.94	29.09	85.70
C2	118.611	303.153	24.50	86.60