Fourth aiCAMstir Meeting, 10 March 2022

The Fourth aiCAM^stir Meeting was held online on 10 March 2022 with 30 attendees.

Link to the video

Recording of the Fourth aiCAMstir Meeting (Total: 1:58 h, the first presentation starts at 25:30 min)

Recording of the Fourth aiCAM^stir Meeting (Total: 1:58 h, the first presentation starts at 25:30 min)

Agenda

The agenda of the 120 min long on-line meeting was as follows:

• Welcome and introduction (2-3 sentences each)
• Stephan Kallee (AluStir): One-to-One Collaborations, Grant Applications and Collaborative Papers
• Michael Hasieber and Pascal Pöthig (TU Ilmenau): Wear of FSW Tools and Possibilities of Process Monitoring (20 min + 5 min questions)
• Francois Nadeau (NRC): How Immersed Bath Ultrasounds (NDE) Qualification is Embedded in FSW Projects at NRC (20 min + 5 min questions)
• Tim Haynie (Bond Technologies Inc.): Products and Services of Bond (20 min + 5 min questions)
• Mike Lewis (FTS Engineering Answers Ltd): Organisational Comments and Date of Fifth aiCAMstir Meeting (9 June 2022 at the same time slot)

List of Attendees

(alphabetically sorted by the MS-Teams name)

Attendee	Company	Status	Signed-up on
Adrian Gerlich	University of Waterloo	University	2021-12-08
Boywitt, Ralph	SLV Berlin-Brandenburg	Guest
Christian Vogrinec	Saman Ventures	Guest
Eslami, Nima, Dr. (K-AERS/M)	Volkswagen	Guest
Fabian Vieltorf	TU Munich	Guest
Koenfaes	BIL-IBS	R&D Institute	2021-04-14
Landry Giraud	TRA-C	Industrial Company	2021-11-12
Lauterbach Dennis (K-AERS/M)	Volkswagen	Guest
Mario Guillo	Institut Maupertuis	Guest
Masaeli	UQTR, Canada	Guest
Mario Leitner	Stirline GmbH	Industrial Company	2022-03-02
Michael Hasieber	TU Ilmenau	Guest
Mike Lewis	FTS Engineering Answers Ltd	Consultancy service provider	2021-01-14
Mohammad	Amirkabir University of Technology	Guest
Nick Edge	Advant-Edge Consulting Ltd	Guest
Norbert Enzinger	TU Graz	Guest
Pascal Pöthig	TU Ilmenau	Guest
Paul Lester	Munro & Associates	Guest
Rishabh Swarnkar	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Guest
Sayee Raghunathan	Saudi Aramco	Guest
Sehrschön, Harald	Fill	Guest
Simon Smith	Transforming Stress Ltd	Consultancy service provider	2021-01-14
Stephan Kallee	AluStir	Consultancy service provider	2021-01-14
Tim Haynie	Bond Technologies Inc.	Industrial Company	2022-02-09
Arnold Wright	Bond Technologies Inc.	Industrial Company	2022-02-09
Tom Hunt	TWB	Guest
Vivek Patel	University West, Sweden	Guest
Yuri Hovanski	Brigham Young University	R&D Institute	2021-04-09

One-to-One Collaborations, Grant Applications and Collaborative Papers

So far, Stirline GmbH, Bond Technologies Inc, UQTR (Canada), National Research Council Canada, National Chung Cheng University, University of Waterloo, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, TRAC-C industrie, JACKY, LAMEF, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, DriveConcepts GmbH, Sandeep, Smart Industry Group, BIL-IBS, Brigham Young University, Institut Spawalnictwa, OxCAM Engineering Arc, Sabe Technology Ltd, Transforming Stress Ltd, FTS Engineering Answers Ltd and AluStir have signed-up as project participants, as shown in the list of project partipants. The project is open for further project participants. Please contact stephan.kallee@alustir.com, if you want to contribute to this project.

Several projects participants teamed-up for industrially funded contract R&D work on a one-to-one basis. Some of the results of this work will be published on www.aicamstir.com, whil other results will be kept confidential.

It is also possible and encouraged to set-up government funded sub projects, e.g. on using automated in-line shearography for closed-loop parameter control during FSW of thermoplastics in the high-volume production of battery trays.

John Kell MBE, the Account Manager of the Automotive Sector Team of the UK's Department for International Trade (DIT), mentioned after the meeting the following government funded project calls:

• Based on your project aligned with AI, perhaps we can look at Made Smarter: Innovation Network

• For future power electronics, motors and drives supply chain development UKRI DER may have scope to approach process development: Driving the electric revolution challenge

• Fabrication of battery boxes, electric motors and battery bus bars as well as contacts research are also areas of interest to be investigated

Using Artificial Intelligence in the Computer Aided Manufacturing of Friction Stir Welds. By Simon Smith, Mike Lewis and Stephan Kallee. To be presented at the ISFSWP 2022 on 28-30 September 2022 in Lüneburg and Geesthacht. Please click onto the image and then onto the thumbnail to open any of the links.

Using Artificial Intelligence in the Computer Aided Manufacturing of Friction Stir Welds. By Simon Smith, Mike Lewis and Stephan Kallee. To be presented at the ISFSWP 2022 on 28-30 September 2022 in Lüneburg and Geesthacht. Please click onto the image and then onto the thumbnail to open any of the links.

Simon Smith, Mike Lewis and Stephan Kallee have submitted an abstract on Using Artificial Intelligence in the Computer Aided Manufacturing of Friction Stir Welds to be presented at the Upcoming events#ISFSWP 2022 ''Joint International Symposium on Friction Stir Welding and Processing'' to be held on 28-30 September 2022 in Germany at the University of Lüneburg and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht.

Presentations

Michael Hasieber and Pascal Pöthig (TU Ilmenau): Wear of FSW Tools and Possibilities of Process Monitoring

Michael Hasieber and Pascal Pöthig (TU Ilmenau): Wear of FSW Tools and Possibilities of Process Monitoring

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François Nadeau (NRC): How Immersed Bath Ultrasounds (NDE) Qualification is Embedded in FSW Projects at NRC

François Nadeau (NRC): How Immersed Bath Ultrasounds (NDE) Qualification is Embedded in FSW Projects at NRC

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  How Immersed Bath Ultrasounds (NDE) Qualification is Embedded in FSW Projects at NRC

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  What we will discuss today

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  NRC overview Aluminium Technology Centre

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  NRC works mainly with industrial clients Ex. METALTec industrial group

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  NDE inspection is our DNA in welding process development

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  Tecscan ultrasonic system resolution surpasses X-ray analysis

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  What industrial clients seek for mainly in FSW parameters development?

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  Case study example Bobbin tool FSW for aluminium bridge decks

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  Cyber Physical Production System (CPPS) project FSW + hot stamping + Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC)

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  Ignition Edge base computing platform integrated at NRC process cells

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  FSW qualification at the cell involved grain size / Internal defects prediction

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  Ultrasonic NDE allowed, wih extensive supplementary work, to build a dataset

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  Machine learning modelling is applied to generate process windows

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  Fast engineering FSW simulation tool at early design stage

Tim Haynie (Bond Technologies Inc.): Products and Services of Bond

Tim Haynie (Bond Technologies Inc.): Products and Services of Bond

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Literature

• Michael Hasieber, Moritz Kranz, Torsten Löhn, Michael Grätzel, Anton Zemlicka and Jean Pierre Bergmann: Effect of friction stir welding tool hardness on wear behaviour in friction stir welding of AA-6060 T66. First Published 17 January 2022, https://doi.org/10.1177/14644207211073055.
• Michael Hasieber, Michael Grätzel and Jean Pierre Bergmann: A novel approach for the detection of geometric- and weight-related FSW tool wear using stripe light projection. Also available via MDPI: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-4494/4/2/60

Next meeting

We want to invite you to attend the Fifth online aiCAM^stir Meeting on using artificial intelligence in Computer Aided Manufacture of friction stir welds. The meeting will be held on Thursday, 9 June 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (London), as shown on upcoming events.

Please contact stephan.kallee@alustir.com, if you want to attend the meeting and/or if you want to participate in the project.