Spot welds are used extensively in the automotive industry to join panels, and car bodies
contain many thousands of spot welds. Different finite element models of spot welds have …

Health monitoring results obtained during fatigue testing of a spot-welded lap-shear
structural-joint specimen using the electromechanical (E/M) impedance technique are …

Hot stamping of patchwork blanks is flexible to adjust the mechanical properties of the
component by applying patched blanks with different thicknesses and at different locations …

A new finite element assembly, to account for the structural behaviour of the region
surrounding a spot weld, is developed. The formulation derives from the analytic solution of …

Spot welding is the most common method of assembling sheet materials due to its ease of
application, effectiveness, and low cost. Fatigue of spot-welded structures is regarded as …

Spot welding is the most popular assembly method used in the automotive industry due to its
simplicity, effectiveness, and low cost. Simulation techniques for spot welds play an …

In this study, the effect of the space or gap values—between the overlap portions of the spot
welded specimens—which is especially important for spot-welded joints subjected to …

It is an important problem to estimate the fatigue life of spot welds. There are a number of
spot weld models in literature put forward to represent spot welds in finite element models. In …

Integrity of the resistance spot welds determines the overall structural rigidity and integrity of
the mechanical system. The main mode of failure for spot-weld joints is fatigue fracture due …

The present paper deals with the problem of numerical estimation of fatigue life in spot
welded structures. It is evidenced that the use of a particular suited analytical solution inside …