resistance spot welding is an important manufacturing process in the automotive industry for assembling bodies. the quality and strength of the welds and, by extension, the body is mainly defined by the quality of the weld nuggets. the most effective parameters in this process are sheet material, geometry of electrodes, electrode force, current intensity, welding time and sheet thickness. the p...

In order to study the effect of spot welding parameters such as welding force, welding time and welding current intensity on nugget formation and its size in resistance spot welding process of CR3 low carbon steel sheets using ANSYS commercial software package. A 2D axisymmetric electro-thermo-mechanical finite element (FE) model is developed to simulate the nugget forming process and to predic...

This paper investigates the development of weld zone in Resistance Spot Welding (RSW) which focuses on weld nugget and Heat Affected Zone (HAZ). The effects of four factors namely weld current, weld time, electrode force and hold time were studied using a general 2 factorial design augmented by five centre points. The results of the analysis showed that all selected factors except hold time exh...

A novel experimental technique, using specially designed electrodes (with machined annular and circular pits, and central cavities), was developed to simulate the effects of pitting morphology of the electrode tip face on weld nugget size and joint strength in resistance spot welding of aluminium alloys. Results of the experimental simulations indicate that the distribution of electrode contact...

Abstract Spatial process models popular in geostatistics often represent the observed data as sum of a smooth underlying and white noise. The variation noise is attributed to measurement error, or microscale variability, called ‘nugget’. We formally establish results on identifiability consistency nugget spatial based upon Gaussian within framework in-fill asymptotics, that sample size increase...

The present work demonstrates that friction stir welding (FSW) is a feasible route for joining 6061 aluminium (Al) alloy to AISI 1018 steel. The weld has a good weld quality and is free of cracks and porosity. The tensile failure happened at the boundary between the nugget and thermomechanically affected zone of the base Al alloy, indicating that the weld has a higher joining strength. Despite ...