PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Kvasnová, Petra AU - Novák, Daniel AU - Novák, Viktor AU - Ďuriš, Milan TI - Computer Simulation of Heating Cycle of Aluminum Alloys Using Friction Stir Welding Technology DP - 2023 May 3 TA - Manufacturing Technology Journal PG - 47--52 VI - 23 IP - 1 AID - 10.21062/mft.2023.014 IS - 12132489 AB - The paper deals with welding of aluminum alloys using Friction Stir Welding technology. This repre-sents one of the solid-state welding technologies in which the base materials are not melted. This pro-vides new possibilities for the use of special and hybrid manufacturing technologies. The article presents the current progress in the Friction Stir Welding technology, a microstructure analysis of a weld joint created by the FSW method and a heat-deformation computer simulation of an aluminium alloy speci-men in the program Ansys.