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For the last decades usage of aluminium alloys have been increasing tremendously. They have been used in aerospace industry widely and now aluminium alloys are becoming more and more popular in automotive and defense industries. Consequently / successful welding of aluminium alloys gains importance. In this study a research is carried out on eldability of plates having different thicknesses of composition 5754 aluminium and 6063 aluminium in T-fillet geometry using Gas-metal Arc Welding technique. It was aimed to have a successful joint without using pre-weld and post-weld heat treatments. During tests welding current and voltage were the varying parameters as welding speed was held constant. Macro-examinations were performed to see the penetration of the weld metal. It was seen that the type of filler wire greatly effects weld penetration. Hardness tests, tensile tests were done to compare the mechanical properties of the welded joints with different filler wires. Despite having better penetration in 4043 filler wire used weld joints, 5356 filler wire used weld joints had higher tensile strength and ductility. In the second part of the study, a dynamic loading machine was designed and manufactured to see the behavior of the fillet welds under dynamic loading. The amount of stress and strain given to the specimen on this machine was adjustable but can&rsquo / t be measured. The tests that were made with this machine aimed only to compare the number of cycles of specimens before fracture. For dynamic loading tests two groups of specimens were prepared with filler wire 4043 / each group having been welded with different heat inputs. It was aimed to see the effect of welding heat input on service lifes but no significant difference between cycle numbers of specimen groups having been welded with different heat inputs was observed. Microstructure examinations of these specimens revealed that coarsening the grains, grain boundaries, particles in PMZ and HAZ regions between Al 6063 base metal and weld zone made these areas more susceptible and favorable for crack propogation than Al 6063 base metal.

De nos jours, les exigences de productivité et de maîtrise des coûts ont incité les industriels à développer de nouvelles machines, et avec elles, de nouveaux enjeux sont apparus : souplesse de la structure, vibration, effets dynamiques non-négligeables, etc. Pourtant, leur mise en œuvre est toujours issue de méthodes employées pour les machines conventionnelles. Ces travaux s’intéressent donc à la définition de stratégies globales englobant la prise en compte de la structure utilisée et de la tâche à réaliser, appliquée à deux contextes d’illustration. Dans le contexte de l’usinage, nous proposons un réglage des machines basé sur le modèle comportemental de la structure qui ne nécessite que peu de modifications manuelles et permettant un gain de temps pour la mise en œuvre. Une nouvelle loi de commande en couple calculé est également proposé, elle permet de réduire les phénomènes vibratoires lors de phases dynamiquement exigeantes. Dans le contexte des essais mécaniques, l’objectif est de montrer la faisabilité de l’utilisation de machines parallèles à 6 degrés de liberté dans le cadre d’essais dont la gestion des conditions aux limites est critique. Nous proposons une instrumentation et un schéma de commande qui permettent de respecter les consignes avec une erreur maximale de l’ordre de 0.40μm, même dans le cas d’éprouvettes très rigide (en béton par exemple). / Nowadays, the requirements in productivity and costs mastering have forced the industrial manufacturers to develop new kind of mechanisms. Thus, the complexity of the machine-tools structures and machining processes has increased and new challenges have emerged : flexible structure, vibration, non-negligible dynamic effects, etc ... However, their implementation still comes from methods used for conventional machines. These works are thus about defining overall strategies including consideration of the kind of structure used and the task to realise. Two illustrative contexts are used. In the context of machining, we propose a generic tuning method based on kinematic and dynamic model of machine-tools structure that requires only a few manual modifications, in order to save time for implementation. A new computed torque control law is proposed, it reduces vibration phenomena in dynamical demanding phases. In the context of the mechanical tests, the objective is to demonstrate the feasibility of using parallel machines with 6 degrees of freedom in the context of mechanical tests, whereas the boundary conditions are perfectly controlled. We propose an instrumentation and control scheme that is able to perform mechanical tests with a maximum error of about 0.40 mu m, even in the case of very rigid specimen (concrete for example).