scholarly journals Effect of Welding Current on Weld Formation, Microstructure, and Mechanical Properties in Resistance Spot Welding of CR590T/340Y Galvanized Dual Phase Steel

Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 2310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinge Zhang ◽  
Fubin Yao ◽  
Zhenan Ren ◽  
Haiyan Yu

During resistance spot welding, the welding current is the most important process parameter, which determines the welding heat input and then has a great influence on the welding quality. In present study, the CR590T/340YDP galvanized dual phase steel widely used as automobile material was carried out using resistance spot welding. The effect of welding current on the weld formation, microstructure, and mechanical properties was studied in detail. It was found that the quality of weld appearance decreased with the increase of welding current, and there was a Zn island on the weld surface. The microstructure of the whole resistance spot welded joint was inhomogeneity. The nugget zone consisted of coarse lath martensite and a little of ferrite with the columnar crystal morphology, and the microstructure of weld nugget became coarser when the welding current was higher. There was an optimum welding current value and the tensile strength reached the maximum. This investigation will provide the process guidance for automobile body production.

2013 ◽  
Vol 860-863 ◽  
pp. 780-783
Author(s):  
Qiao Bo Feng ◽  
Yun Feng Zhu ◽  
He Xin Zhao

The process parameters and quality of resistance spot welding for DP980 dual phase steel were studied through the orthogonal experiment method, and the influence of welding current, welding time and electrode force on the strength of welding joint has been discussed. The results show that the welding current has the greatest influence on the quality of welding joint for DP980 dual phase steel, and it needs relatively lower welding current for the DP980 dual phase steel as it has high resistivity, and appropriate increasing of electrode force is a feasible way to avoid the defect of shrinkage and it improves the joint strength.


2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-206
Author(s):  
Aleksija Djuric ◽  
Dragan Milčić ◽  
Damjan Klobčar ◽  
Biljana Marković

Resistance spot welding (RSW) is still the most used form of welding in the automotive industry, primarily for welding steel. One of the advanced steels used in the automotive industry is dual-phase steel, so it is important to properly select the welding parameter for these steels. Therefore, this paper presents multi-objective optimization in the RSW welding process of DP 500 steel. The paper considers three different mechanical characteristics i.e., the failure load (F), failure displacement (l) and weld nugget diameter (D), as all these welding characteristics play significant roles in evaluating the quality of spot welding. The results show that the welding current is the most influential parameter with respect to the mechanical characteristics. The effect of welding time on the weld quality is the least significant. The optimal parameters for welding DP 500 steel obtained in this paper are weld current 8 kA, electrode force 4.91 kN and weld time 400 ms.


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