Abstract Purpose of Review This paper provides an overview of the role of humans and
robots in smart factories, their connection to Industry 4.0, and which progress they make …

Hybrid car bodies fabricated by joining parts made with steel and aluminum alloys are
becoming increasingly common. This provides an affordable mean to decrease the car …

Wire and arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), using cold metal transfer (CMT) as heat
source, exhibits a great potential for additive manufacturing of magnesium alloys due to low …

This paper presents a comprehensive study of the metallurgical challenges of welding
dissimilar metals. It also describes the important factors in dissimilar welding which need to …

Multi-material design is a viable approach to reduce fuel consumption as well as
environmentally unfriendly gas emissions. Aluminum is being increasingly used to replace …

Dissimilar materials lap joining of aluminum alloy to galvanized steel sheets was
investigated with refilled friction stir spot welding (Refilled FSSW). For the lap joint between …

The microstructure and mechanical properties of dissimilar resistance spot weldments
between the sheets of 6061-T6 aluminum alloy and St-12 low carbon steel using Al 0· 5 …

The welding of dissimilar materials finds a wide variety of applications in the fields of
industrial construction and manufacturing, where the characteristic features of the different …

Unstable weld appearance and uncontrollable interfacial compounds have significant
impact on the final properties of Al/steel butt joint obtained by traditional processes. In this …

The modeling and optimization of resistance spot welded 5052 aluminum to Al-Si coated
boron steel was quantitatively analyzed using response surface methodology and genetic …