Review: magnetically assisted resistance spot welding

Li, Y. B.; Li, D. L.; Lin, Z. Q.; David, Stan A.; Feng, Zhili; Tang, Wei

doi:10.1179/1362171815Y.0000000059

Review: magnetically assisted resistance spot welding

Journal Article · Thu Feb 25 04:00:00 EST 2016 · Science and Technology of Welding and Joining

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1179/1362171815Y.0000000059· OSTI ID:1413631

Li, Y. B. ^[1]; Li, D. L. ^[1]; Lin, Z. Q. ^[1]; David, Stan A. ^[2]; ^[2]; ^[2]

Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai (China)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Currently, the use of advanced high strength steels (AHSSs) is the most cost effective means of reducing vehicle body weight and maintaining structural integrity at the same time. However, AHSSs present a big challenge to the traditional resistance spot welding (RSW) widely applied in automotive industries because the rapid heating and cooling procedures during RSW produce hardened weld microstructures, which lower the ductility and fatigue properties of welded joints and raise the probability of interfacial failure under external loads. Changing process parameters or post-weld heat treatment may reduce the weld brittleness, but those traditional quality control methods also increase energy consumption and prolong cycle time. In recent years, a magnetically assisted RSW (MA-RSW) method was proposed, in which an externally applied magnetic field would interact with the conduction current to produce a Lorentz force that would affect weld nugget formation. This paper is a review of an experimental MA-RSW platform, the mode of the external magnetic field and the mechanism that controls nugget shape, weld microstructures and joint performance. In conclusion, the advantages of the MA-RSW method in improving the weldability of AHSSs are given, a recent application of the MA-RSW process to light metals is described and the outlook for the MA-RSW process is presented.

Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1413631

Journal Information:: Science and Technology of Welding and Joining, Journal Name: Science and Technology of Welding and Joining Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 21; ISSN 1362-1718

Publisher:: Taylor & Francis

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (10)

Effect of External Constant Magnetic Field on Weld Nugget of Resistance Spot Welded Dual-Phase Steel DP590 Shen, Qi; Li, Yong Bing; Lin, Zhong Qin IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 47, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2011.2157316	journal	October 2011
Effects of cone angle of truncated electrode on heat and mass transfer in resistance spot welding Li, YongBing; Wei, ZeYu; Li, YaTing International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 65 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.06.012	journal	October 2013
Effect of Magnetic Field on Weld Zone by Spot-welding in Stainless Steel Watanabe, Yoshimi; Takeda, Takeshi; Sato, Hisashi ISIJ International, Vol. 46, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.2355/isijinternational.46.1292	journal	January 2006
Numerical Analysis of Transport Phenomena in Resistance Spot Welding Process Li, YongBing; Lin, ZhongQin; Shen, Qi Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 133, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4004319	journal	June 2011
The Effects of Post-Weld Cold Working Processes on the Fatigue Strength of Low Carbon Steel Resistance Spot Welds Spitsen, R.; Kim, D.; Flinn, B. Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 127, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2034514	journal	January 2005
Impact of External Magnetic Field on Weld Quality of Resistance Spot Welding Shen, Qi; Li, YongBing; Lin, ZhongQin Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 133, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4004794	journal	August 2011
Numerical analysis of magnetic fluid dynamics behaviors during resistance spot welding Li, Yong Bing; Lin, Zhong Qin; Hu, S. Jack Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 101, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2472279	journal	March 2007
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Resistance Spot Welded Advanced High Strength Steels Khan, M. I.; Kuntz, M. L.; Biro, E. MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS, Vol. 49, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.2320/matertrans.MRA2008031	journal	January 2008
Quality improvement in resistance spot weld of advanced high strength steel using external magnetic field Li, Y. B.; Shen, Q.; Lin, Z. Q. Science and Technology of Welding and Joining, Vol. 16, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1179/1362171811Y.0000000002	journal	July 2011
Effect of the magnetic field on the formation of the joint in resistance spot welding Popov, V. A. Welding International, Vol. 7, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1080/09507119309548515	journal	January 1993

Similar Records

A New Perspective of Post-Weld Baking Effect on Al-Steel Resistance Spot Weld Properties through Machine Learning and Finite Element Modeling

Journal Article · Tue Dec 27 19:00:00 EST 2022 · Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing · OSTI ID:1928923

Predicting Nugget Size of Resistance Spot Welds Using Infrared Thermal Videos With Image Segmentation and Convolutional Neural Network

Journal Article · Wed Aug 04 20:00:00 EDT 2021 · Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering · OSTI ID:1819527

Microstructures of magnetically assisted dual-phase steel resistance spot welds

Journal Article · Wed May 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Science and Technology of Welding and Joining · OSTI ID:1413630

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Electromagnetic stirring
External magnetic field
Fluid flow
Grain refinement
Heat transfer
Resistance spot welding

Review: magnetically assisted resistance spot welding

Citation Formats

References (10)

Similar Records

Related Subjects