genter 4 hours ago

How would you fabricate a frame from extruded tubing? Welding would destroy the grain structure.

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A_D_E_P_T 4 hours ago

That looks like it's an active research problem: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266633092...

At a glance, though, the problem doesn't seem insurmountable. FSW appears to work.

le-mark 4 hours ago

Brazing has a long tradition in building bicycle frames.

etrautmann 4 hours ago

Aren’t truck chassis increasingly made with epoxy or other adhesive bonds?