• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.68-73
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• 2010

Welding conditions in process of spot welding must become optimum and need to guarantee stability and reliability of vehicle body considering dynamic load history. Because welding parameters in process of spot welding are various, it is difficult that the quality of spot weldment was included in the optimum levels. In this paper, we found the optimum welding conditions satisfying KS spot welding qualities using genetic algorithm and spot welding experiments of high tensile strength steel and galvanized steel. Those experiments were dissimilar weld and 2-lap spot welding. Genetic algorithm created random welding condition after that, selected optimum individuals by probability concept.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 2005년도 춘계학술발표대회 개요집
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• pp.60-62
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of spot heating on the fatigue strength at the weldment. To do this, the transitional behavior of residual stress at the weld toe induced by spot heating was identified using FEA and experiment. The amount and distribution of residual stress at the weld toe strongly depends on the locations of spot heating. Based on the results, the proper spot heating condition was established. The fatigue strength of the spot-heated specimen increases compared with as-welded specimen.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2002

The automobile is made up of about twenty thousand parts. Some parts are formed by pressing and combined by spot welding. Among them, steel palate of fuel tank is formed in the metal mold and bending parts are jointed by spot and seam welding. To find weldability conditions of spot welding, clearance between two welding steel plates was made and after spot welding, weldability is evaluated by means of tensile shear load, nugget size and shape. Specimen used in this study was a mild steel of 1.2mm thickness and electrode was Cu-Cr alloy of 6mm diameter. When spot welding started, the clearance of two steel plates was changed 0mm, 3mm and 5mm step by step. The fractured surface of specimen after this test was observed by Optical Microscope to measure microstructure and nugget shape. When clearance of two specimen was 3mm and 5mm, strength and nugget size was decreased and nugget shape was not clear.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.57-64
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• 1996

In this paper, authors are trying to find optimum spot weldig conditions to minimize indentation of the plate surface which is crucial to quality of stainless rolling stocks. At first, to derive a simple equation to estimate the depth of indentation, a simplified one-dimensional bar model is proposed and validity of the model is confirmed by experiments. And also, to find proper welding conditions giving satisfied tensile strength of the welded joint, a simple formula is derived referring to the standard spot welding conditions by AWS. Optimization problem is formulated to find welding conditions such as welding current, time and applied force which give minimum indentation and proper tensile strength of joint, and solutions are found out. According to the results, the depth of indentation can be expressed by applied electrode froces and it can be shown that an optimum applied force exists.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 1999년도 특별강연 및 춘계학술발표대회 개요집
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• pp.215-218
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• 1999

With increasing demand of energy saving, -many efforts were made to employ aluminium alloys in the automobile industry. Especially, resistance spot welding has been widely used in the steel metal joining process because of its high productively and convenience. In this paper, spot weldability of 7075-T6 aluminium thin sheets for various welding conditions were examined by series of experiments. The tensile shear strength and microstructure of welded specimens was observed, and The optimal welding conditions were found for each welding conditions.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2014

본 논문의 목적은 진동 피로해석 기법을 적용하여 다수의 용접점을 포함하고 있는 점용접 구조물의 강성변화를 고려하여 피로수명을 평가하는 것이다. 먼저 모재부 인장특성 및 점용접부의 인장 및 피로특성을 획득하였다. 유한요소법을 적용하여 S-N 선도를 획득하여 피로해석에 적용하였다. 주파수 응답해석을 수행하여 구조물의 전달함수를 획득하였고, 주파수영역에서 0.11의 PSD를 선정하여 수행하였다. 강성변화 및 고유진동수의 변화를 알아보기 위하여 점용접부의 총 6개 지점 중 최소수명이 발생하는 지점을 기준으로 1개씩 제거하여 반복 해석을 수행하였다. 따라서 강성이 낮아질수록 고유주파수도 낮아지는 것을 확인하였다. 이러한 조건하에서 진동피로해석을 수행하여 피로손상의 누적에 따른 전달합수의 변화를 고려한 진동피로해석을 수행하였다.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 1998년도 특별강연 및 추계학술발표 개요집
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• pp.27-35
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• 1998

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.18-28
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• 2005

본 일반 지침은 용접 이음부나 구조물의 피로강도 평가에 사용되는 기준응력 계산에 관한 내용으로 핫스팟 응력(Hot Spot Stress, 이하 HSS)이라고 칭하는 응력 평가용 해석 기술 및 관련 내용을 다룬다. 국제용접협회 (IIW: International Institute of Welding)발간 지침서의 주요내용에 대한 간략한 소개와 함께 대한용접학회 용접강도연구위원회의 Round-Robin 시험결과를 바탕으로 유한요소 응력해석 기반 용접 이음부의 HSS 평가 방법에 관한 내용을 정리하였다.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.77-82
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• 1999

Resistance spot welding process is completed in very short time and there are many factors affecting on the generation of heat. It is difficult to control these experimental factors and monitor distribution of the temperature and stresses in the experimental analysis case. and too much time and expense are required for the experimental trials to fine proper welding condition. So numerical analyses have been attempted steadily, but most numerical analyses on the resistance spot welding are mainly focused on thermal behavior. Therefore, in this paper, the numerical analysis of mechanical behavior as well as heat conduction is carried out for the spot welding process. For this numerical analysis, axial symmetric computer program for the spot welding analysis by F.E.M. has been developed considering heat conduction and thermal elastic-plastic theory. Material properties depending on temperature such as density, heat conductivity, heat expansion coefficient, specific heat, yield stress, elastic modulus, and specific resistance are considered. Using the results of temperature distribution obtained from heat conduction analysis, the thermal elastic-plastic analysis is carried out to clarify mechanical behavior of spot welded specimen. In order to evaluate the effect of residual stresses, numerical analyses are carried out under tension-shear load in two cases respectively; one with residual stress, the other without residual stresses.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.709-715
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• 2016

This paper presents a comparison of an experimental study on spot and plug welding of an automotive body panel. Spot welding is a common joining technology used in automotive body panel assembly. In automotive body repair, however, plug welding is widely used due to its technical simplicity and cost benefit. Some researchers have focused on the use of spot welding in the manufacturing process, but there has been very little research done with respect to the engineering analysis of the plug welding process. In this study, two kinds of specimens are considered to compare the difference of failure strength between spot weld and plug weld: normal tension and shear tension. The experimental results show, in both normal tension and shear tension, that spot welding has higher failure strength than plug welding. In addition, plug welding is more vulnerable to shear tension than normal tension. This study can be applied to further studies on practical optimization for maintenance and repair of automotive body panels.