Ashiri R, Shamanian M, Salimijazi H R, Park Y, Salmani M R. Welding challenges facing advanced automotive steels in resistance spot welding process: A review. JWSTI 2020; 6 (2) :13-27
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1- Materials and Energy Research Center, Dezful Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dezful, Iran
2- Department of Materials Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
3- Department of Engineering of Advanced Materials, DongEui University, Busan, Republic of Korea
4- AutoSteel Division, SAIPA Group, Tehran, Iran
Abstract: (4490 Views)
Nowadays, the use of advanced high strength steels (AHSSs) in body-in-white is one of the hot applied strategies which is followed by the most of the automakers. The study of weldability and weld challenges facing these steels in resistance spot welding process as the most widely used process in the assembly lines of the automotive industry is essential to use the outstanding mechanical responses of AHSSs. This study can result in improvement of mechanical performance of the resistance spot welds of AHSSs. Our results indicate that AHSSs experiences different welding challenges which this work aims to study them by discussing their causes, mechanisms involved and potential ways to address them.