“…Titanium and aluminum are attractive engineering metals in industrial applications because of their excellent properties, therefore, achieving the joining between two kinds of materials not only can combine their excellent characteristics, reduce the weight of the structure, but also save costs and further expand their application prospects. In view of this, some welding methods such as friction stir welding [1,2], roll-bonding [3], explosive welding [4], ultrasonic welding [5], resistance spot welding [6], laser welding [7] and arc welding-brazing [8,9] were applied to join titanium and aluminum. Previous studies reveal that the brittle intermetallic compounds (IMCs) layer formed at the welding interface seriously impair the mechanical properties of the joint [10,11].…”