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Welding of components processed by additive manufacturing (AM) to conventionally produced components become important for industrial applications. Among AM production methods, selective laser melting method provides number of advantages such as use of various type of materials, increased functionality, relatively low cost and the production of smooth surface components ready to use.Within the scope of this study, preliminary research studies were carried out to demonstrate the feasibility of similar and dissimilar friction stir welded AlSi10Mg plates produced by selective laser melting. Mechanical performances in terms of tensile and hardness values of similar and dissimilar welded joint combinations of AlSi10Mg plates were investigated. In order to determine welding defects, macro/micro structural characterization was performed on welding zones. The similar friction stir welded of AlSiMg10 exhibits of up to 75% of the base metal. In dissimilar friction stir welded joint strength were obtained obtained up to 55% of the base metal.
Keywords: Dissimilar Friction Stir Welding, Selective Laser Melting method, AlSi10Mg, hardness© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.