Mechanical Behavior of Hybrid-Spot Welded Joints.

Details of the Electro-Mechanical (E/M) Impedance Health Monitoring of Spot-Welded Structural Joints

Health monitoring of structural joints is a major concern of the engineering community. Among joining techniques, spotwelding play a major role. Spot welding is the traditional method of assembly for steel-based automotive structures, while spot-welding of aluminum is being considered for future vehicular structures. Though spot welding of steel is well researched and understood, the spot-weldi...

Relaxation behavior of polyethylene welded joints

The paper presents results of the investigation of structure relaxation and thermal properties of PE-80 and PE-100 polyethylene hot-tool butt welds. It was found that a weld with the re-crystallized crystalline structure is formed during the welding of dissimilar types of polyethylene. It is shown that within a long period (1 year) the relaxation occurs not only in amorphous but also in the cry...

E/m Impedance Health Monitoring of Spot-welded Structural Joints

1 TRACT erimental results obtained during fatigue testing of a lded lap-shear structural-joint specimen are d. In these experiments, the electro-mechanical mpedance technique was used for structural health ing, damage detection, and NDE. The test ns were instrumented with piezo-electric wafer ers, and the base E/M impedance signature was over the relevant frequency range. Fatigue testing lied t...

Enhancement in Mechanical Properties of Vibratory Welded Joints: an Overview

This paper consolidated the improvements in mechanical properties from the past literature available using Vibratory welding technique. Vibratory welding is a promising method in eliminating the disadvantages experienced by the traditional welding like residual stress due to the electrical energy input which induces vibrations by varying the input parameters voltage, current, amplitude and freq...

Cohesive-zone modelling of the deformation and fracture of spot-welded joints