A detailed look at how the resistance spot welding process works and how it forms effective joins between metals. Also included is the advantage of using 3-phase power, the use of inverter technology, ...

Spot welding looks simple and easy until your products fall apart while being delivered to the job site. When that happened to one contractor several years ago, spot welding suddenly took on a whole ...

Engineers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are developing a self-fixturing process that could enable ...

SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing, Vol. 9, No. 3 (August 2016), pp. 756-763 (8 pages) ABSTRACT A concept of combining friction stir spot welding (FSSW) and clinching, denoted as ...

Viknesh Vijayenthiran February 18, 2013 Comment Now! Acura engineers have come up with a new welding technique that allows them to join ordinary steel components with lightweight aluminum pieces in a ...

When we saw the headline from General Motors announcing a "breakthrough in welding," we had to bite. We know how you've been waiting for a breakthrough in welding, you're frustrated that welding has ...

The causes of failure due to cracking in the resistance spot welding of the advanced high-strength steels dual-phase 590 (DP590) were investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), optical ...