Spot welding, particularly resistance spot welding (RSW), is a critical joining process in
automotive industry. The development of advanced high strength steels for applications in …

To improve automotive fuel economy, automobile manufacturers are minimizing the weight
of the body-in-white. To do this, they are adopting new 3rd generation advanced high …

Safety evaluation of resistance spot welds necessitates the accurate measurement of local
constitutive properties. This study employed miniature mechanical tests to investigate the …

This paper addresses the microstructure and tensile-shear mechanical performance of
MS1200 Giga-grade martensitic advanced high strength steel resistance spot welds. The …

The paper addresses the process–microstructure–performance relationships in resistance
spot welding of a martensitic advanced high strength steel. Significant softening was …

Multi-material design has been increasingly used in the automotive industry for structural
lightweighting. A novel resistance spot welding technique has been developed to join …

The mechanical performance and failure characteristics of resistance spot welds from two
grades of third-generation advanced high strength steels (3G-AHSS), designated 3G-980 …

Predicting the failure of spot welds remains one of the most important modeling challenges
in automotive engineering. In essence, the structure surrounding a spot weld corresponds to …

Weldability is one of the key requirements for automotive materials. This two-part paper aims
at understanding the metallurgical phenomena during resistance spot welding of stainless …

Transformation-induced plasticity (TRIP) steel resistance spot welds are delicate to low-
energy interfacial failure via crack propagation through martensitic fusion zone during cross …