At present most of the manufacturing sectors are looking for high strength lightweight structures with high specific stiffness and good corrosion resistance. In this context, combined use of different types of aluminium alloys are required and warrants efficient joining of the dissimilar alloys. But, efficient joining of dissimilar aluminium alloys by fusion welding techniques is very difficult due to the poor weldability of dissimilar aluminium alloys. It is reported that FSW being a solid state welding technique can avoid all problems associated with fusion welding and is a potential candidate technique for joining difficult to weld materials including dissimilar aluminium alloys. With regard to FSW dissimilar aluminium alloys, the tool axis offset and relative positioning of alloys are also reported to be important. In this article, a comprehensive discussion on the influence of tool axis offset and relative positioning of the materials on the joint performance that reported in the literature is presented. The literature showed that there is uniqueness in the value and sign of the tool axis offset that can result defect free joint with good joint properties. With regard to relative positioning of the materials also, conflicting arguments are reported in the literature.
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