期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
卷 119, 期 -, 页码 185-194出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2018.08.022
关键词
Resistance spot weld; X626-T4 aluminum alloy; Microstructure; Fatigue life; Structural stress
资金
- Canadian Federal Government Energy Innovation Program (EIP)
- General Motors Canada
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
Resistance spot welding of aluminum alloys is increasingly used in the automotive industry for vehicle light-weighting and better fuel efficiency. In this contribution, General Motor's aluminum spot welding process including Multi-Ring Domed (MRD) electrodes and Conditioning, Shaping, and Sizing (CSS) weld schedule were used for welding of 0.8-mm thick X626-T4 aluminum alloy sheet. The resultant spot welds had an equiaxed grain structure adjacent to the weld nugget periphery. Within the weld nugget, fine columnar grains were found at the nugget perimeter, while welding defects were concentrated in the centre of the nugget. Using modified shear specimens, it was determined that the weld nugget is the weakest location while the heat affected zone is enhanced by precipitation aging due to a combination of welding and paint bake thermal cycles. We then derived a new equation for calculating minimum weld nugget diameters to ensure that interfacial fracture would not occur during tensile and fatigue testing. Load controlled fatigue test results showed that using structural stress analysis, fatigue life curves for both lap-shear and coach-peel configurations fell onto a single master curve indicating that the weld nugget size is the controlling parameter for fatigue life. While fracture mode varied with load amplitude from full button pullout at high amplitude to eyebrow-like fracture with kinked crack paths at low amplitude, no interfacial fracture occurred during fatigue testing due to the large size of the weld nugget even though the weld nugget is the weakest location.
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