Friction stir welding joins previously unweldable materials. Friction stir welding, a relatively new process, is having a tremendous impact on welding dissimilar alloys. It was developed in 1991 by ...

Two identical remotely-operated manipulators used to maintain the Joint European Torus fusion energy machine at the Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire, UK, are being tested in a series of practice ...

Researchers are developing a convoluted plasma-confinement machine that may produce inexhaustible, safe, and environmentally attractive energy from nuclear fusion. Fusion joins atomic nuclei (while ...

Since it is difficult to weld aluminium and copper with other methods, this process is a perfect method of combining aluminium and copper.. Welding, as implied by the name, usually involves the ...