Local stress parameters (hot-spot structural stress, notch stress, stress intensity factors and J-integral) at spot welds are preferred in fatigue assessments of spotwelded structures because these ...

Investigating dynamic spot weld behavior for computer modeling of automotive structures is an important topic for discussion. However, current FEA efforts to model spot welds as part of larger ...

Spot welding looks simple and easy until your products fall apart while being delivered to the job site. When that happened to one contractor several years ago, spot welding suddenly took on a whole ...

For sheet metals and plates, resistance spot welding remains a widespread choice for joining similar metals. It is inexpensive and the resulting joints are strong and reliable. That’s why resistance ...

Making battery packs is a common pursuit in our community, involving spot-welding nickel strips to the terminals on individual cells. Many a pack has been made in this way, using reclaimed 18650 cells ...

If you’re really lucky, or careful for that matter, the rust on your project car will be limited to panels you can easily unbolt and replace. If, however, you decide it’s a good idea to attack a ...

Assume that you want to just fasten a small cube of steel onto another steel object using a weld - what word would you use to describe the little blob of a weld you put there?<BR><BR>Not "spot weld", ...