Toughness of welded stainless steels sheets for automotive industry

• Autorzy: Bayraktar E. , Katundi D. , Yilbas B S , Claeys J
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Purpose: In the automotive industry, more and more it is compulsory to develop new grades of stainless steels, such as high resistant Martensitic Stainless Steels (MA-SS) and Ferritic Stainless Steels (FSS) in order to realise certain or many complex deep drawn pieces. For these grades, resistance spot welding (RSW) is the most widespread process used largely for many parts of the car body in the automotive industry. This paper aims to characterise mechanical behaviour (toughness) of the different steel grades under dynamic test conditions. Design/methodology/approach: A special crash test device is used in different temperatures and the simulated crash tests are performed at a constant speed of 5.52 m/s. Findings: The specimen is submitted to impact tensile test at different temperatures. According to testing temperature, fracture mode varies: At low temperatures, brittle fracture occurs: due to stress concentration, fracture always occurs in the notched section. At high temperatures, the specimen fails by ductile fracture. Toughness of the steel sheets (base metals, BM or welded parts) is well compared at different materials and test conditions. Research limitations/implications: Evaluation of welded thin sheets submitted to the dynamic loading in order to correlate in real service conditions in order to realize a useful correlation between the transition temperature and deep drawability can be used for evaluating of the welding conditions and also of the material characteristics. For detail study, this type of the test needs a standard formulation. Practical implications: This is a new conception of specimen and of the impact/crash machine. It is widely used in automotive industry for practical and economic reason to give rapid answers to designer and also steel makers for ranking the materials. Originality/value: New developed test called impact crash test for evaluating the toughness of thin welded joints (tailored blanks) / mechanical assemblies in high formability steel sheets for stamping submitted to dynamic loads such as experienced in real crash tests.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

heat treatment; resistance spot welding; microstructure; hardness

• Wydawca: International OCSCO World Press
• Czasopismo: Journal of Achievements in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
• Rocznik: 2011
• Tom: Vol. 44, nr 1
• Strony: 35--41
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 21 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Bayraktar E.

• Supmeca -Paris, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, France
• Chair of Industrial Materials, CNAM, Arts et Métiers, 75141 Paris 03, France

autor

Katundi D.

• Supmeca -Paris, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, France

autor

Yilbas B S

• KFUPM, Mechanical Engineering Department, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

autor

Claeys J

• ARCELOR Group, Stainless Steel Europe, France

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