A Study on Behavior of Fracture and Stress Distribution in Spot Welds

점熔接材 의 破壞擧動 과 應力分布

Having found by means of a tension-shear test an optimal spot welding condition under which the maximum weld strength is to be brought forth, this study made an examination of behavior of fracture concerned with behavior of stress distribution, observed around the nugget periphery of the specimens prepared under the optimal conditions, with one point spot welded mild steel sheets. The resultant findings are as follows: (1)There remarkably exists an optimal spot welding condition to indicate the maximum weld strength, and fracture of the specimens spot welded under that condition occurs outside the nugget boundary. (2)An experiment on the basis of a photoelastic model reveals that the maximum stress is distributed along the center line of the steel plate width but occurs on the region corresponding to heat affected zone of spot welds. (3)Heat affected zone of spot welds consists of coarse grains with considerably low micro Vickers hardness value and of fine grains of high micro Vickers hardness value, and in this unbalanced structure weak region are represented in coarse grain region, where fracture is initiated and continues its propagation.

본 연구에서는 이상과 같은 점을 고려하고, 인장시험을 통해 최대용접강도를 나타내는 최적용접조건을 구한 다음, 최적조건하에서 박강판을 1점 점용접한 재료의 너깃주위에 관찰되는 파괴거동을 광탄성 응력분포거동과 관련시켜 고찰하였다.