ABSTRACT
Friction welding is a complex process that involves material, thermal, physical and chemical changes. To understand this process better, modeling plays an important role. Thermal modeling of the process has been carried out extensively by many of the previous researchers. But only few of the researchers address the thermo-mechanical phenomenon involved in the friction welding process since thermo-mechanical modeling is more complicated. In the present work, a finite element based model is proposed including thermo-mechanical phenomenon using finite element method.
