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Effects of ultrasonic welding parameters for solar collector applications

  • Emre Yeniyil , Cem Boga and Ugur Esme
Published/Copyright: March 26, 2019
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Materials Testing
From the journal Materials Testing Volume 61 Issue 4

Abstract

Today, ultrasonic welding is used in many different areas due to ease of application compared to other welding methods. Computer, electric, automotive and aerospace industries are the leading areas for these applications. With its ability to easily join materials like Al, Cu, Ni, ultrasonic welding has become a preferred method for use in the welding of solar collectors which are components in solar energy systems. The system parameters for welding solar collectors must of course be adjusted according to the properties of the materials used so that the heat transfer between specimens is not affected. In this study, the selective coated plate and the heat carrier pipes of solar collectors were welded using ultrasonic seam welding, and the optimum welding parameters were determined according to the Cu-DHP copper alloy used. For this purpose, copper specimens were welded using welding speeds of 4, 8, 12 and 16 m × min−1 and amplitudes of 4, 5 and 6 μm, while pressure and frequency values were fixed. The shear strength values of these welded specimens were calculated, and images of the weld areas were obtained with the help of a scanning electron microscope. Through hardness measurements made on the interfacial region of the welds, it was concluded that optimal welding performance was obtained at an amplitude of 4 μm and a welding speed of 12 m × min−1. At these parameters, a mean shear strength value of 0.1386 MPa and a mean hardness value of 112 HV were measured.

*Correspondence Address, Prof. Dr. Ugur Esme, Tarsus University, Technology Faculty, 33400 Tarsus-Mersin, Turkey, E-mail:

Emre Yeniyil was born in 1991. He graduated from the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyon, Turkey in 2015. He obtained his MSc degree from the Manufacturing Engineering Department of Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey in 2018. He is currently a student in the Manufacturing Department of Tarsus University, Turkey. His research area includes piezoelectric ceramics and weld technology.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Cem Boga, born in 1978, works in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Adana Science and Technology University, Adana, Turkey. He received his PhD degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey in 2016. His areas of research include solid mechanics, stress-strain analysis, finite element analysis and vibration analysis.

Prof. Dr. Uğur Esme, born in 1973, works at Tarsus University, Technology Faculty, Tarsus-Mersin, Turkey. He obtained his PhD degree in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey, in 2006. His area of research includes CAD/CAM technology, welding, modeling, designing and water jet cutting applications.

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Published Online: 2019-03-26
Published in Print: 2019-04-04

© 2019, Carl Hanser Verlag, München

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https://doi.org/10.3139/120.111326

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Inhalt/Contents
  2. Contents
  3. Fachbeiträge/Technical Contributions
  4. StressLifetc – NDT-related assessment of the fatigue life of metallic materials
  5. Structural evolution of ceramic coatings by mechanical alloying
  6. Influence of rolling texture on near-threshold crack extension behavior in aluminum alloy EN AW-6082
  7. Influence of variation of energy per unit length on mechanical-technological properties of ultra-high-strength steel 22MnB5 in the laser beam welding process
  8. Comparative study on fatigue behavior between unbonded prestressed and ordinary reinforced reactive powder concrete beams
  9. Quantitative analysis of metal fiber morphology by level set image segmentation algorithms
  10. Mechanical properties of electro and butt fusion welded high-density polyethylene pipes
  11. Effects of ultrasonic welding parameters for solar collector applications
  12. Mechanical strength of single-lap joints bonded with nano graphene and MWCNT reinforced epoxy-based nanocomposite adhesives
  13. Optimum spatial variable blank holder forces determined by the sequential response surface method (SRSM) and a hybrid algorithm
  14. Experimental study on gas emission from coal mass with a rich microstructure
  15. Effect of water absorption on the flexural strength of a green sandwich composite
  16. Wavelet based pseudo color scaling for optimizing wear behavior of epoxy composites
  17. Damage characteristics of basalt fiber reinforced mortar under compression evaluated by acoustic emission
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