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 …

A hybrid structural stress method is presented for significantly simplifying spot weld
representations in fatigue evaluation of complex spot-welded structures while retaining a …

Structural joints provide connection between structural element (beam, plate etc.) in order to
construct a whole assembled structure. There are many types of structural joints such as …

With the rising importance of virtual engineering in an increasingly competitive marketplace,
there is a growing need for simplified representations of finite element (FE) modeling for spot …

In this paper, the failure mechanism of resistance spot welds in dual-phase steel lap-shear
specimens is investigated based on experimental observations, two-dimensional elasticity …

Spot welds made by resistance spot welding are used extensively in automotive
engineering. However, owing to increasing demands in the use of advanced and lightweight …

Automotive structures include thousands of spot welds whose design must allow the
assembled vehicle to satisfy a wide variety of performance constraints including static …

This paper presents an efficient method for the finite element analysis of shell structures
using feature-fitted local shell meshes that are placed in a global shell mesh. Feature-fitted …

Friction stir welding (FSW) is a welding process that widely used as a solid state joining
process for producing welded structure of similar and dissimilar materials such as aluminum …

A general theoretical approach based on theory of elasticity is presented in order to define
the structural behaviour of riveted and spot welded joints. The new closed form solutions …