Robust Design of Dissimilar Stainless Steel Joining

Robustness is a key strategy for achieving high quality. There were different approaches to robust design namely inner-outer array approach advocated by Taguchi, the dual response approach using response surfaces and the tolerance analysis approach which is also through response surfaces.

This paper reports on a study that has been taken up to develop the robust design by dual response and tolerance analysis approaches for understanding the friction welding characteristics of austenitic stainless steel - ferritic stainless steel dissimilar metal welds.