Welding Simulations Using ABAQUS

Chapter 1: Introduction to Friction Stir Welding (FSW).- Chapter 2: Thermomechanical Analysis.- Chapter 3: Finite Element Modeling of FSW.- Chapter 4: Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method.- Chapter 5: Post Processor and Visualization of the Results.- Chapter 6: Thermomechanical Simulation of FSW Using User Defined Subroutine Modeling Technique.- Conclusions.- References.

Dr. Bahman Meyghani is a Lead Mechanical Engineer at BKL Engineering, the Netherlands. He has multiple years of experience as a Lead Mechanical Engineer. Dr. Meyghani earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia and he has completed a 2-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the School of Material Science and Engineering, Shandong University of China. During the past 10 years, he has been working in multidisciplinary companies and he has conducted numerous design development and numerical modeling.

In the meantime, Dr. Meyghani is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the UCSI University. He has also published several scientific papers and books in the area of 3D designing and FEMs.

Mokhtar Awang is Professional Engineer and Associate Professor at the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Perak, Malaysia. He is also Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, UK (IMarEST). He obtained his Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Detroit Mercy, MI, USA, and both master and doctorate degrees from West Virginia University, WV, USA. He had 6 years of experience in industry and over 17 years of academic experience in the field of finite element modeling and friction stir welding. He is a co-author of a book and editor of 6 books related to finite element modelling and material engineering. He has also published more than seventy peer-reviewed journal and conference papers.