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Microstructure, Tensile and Fatigue Behaviour of Resistance Spot Welded Zinc Coated Dual Phase and Interstitial Free Steel

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Galvannealed (hot dip galvanized and annealed) dual phase (DP600) steel and interstitial free (IF) steel are two of the widely used materials in automotive industries owing to their high specific strength, toughness, formability and corrosion resistance. This inevitably requires their joining to form larger components. Resistance spot welding has emerged as the predominant welding technique for joining of sheet metals in automotive industries. There are complexities regarding microstructural variation of the fusion zone and across heat affected zones during spot welding of fundamentally dissimilar steels. This is further aggravated by the prospect of zinc redistribution during the welding process. Current study presents the evolution of microstructure in different zones of welding in IF and DP600 steel. Micro-hardness profiles and electron back scattered diffraction studies were performed. Furthermore, redistribution of elements in different welding zones is studied using electron probe micro analysis. The effect of welding current and time on the nugget size and the strength of the weld during tensile–shear is determined. It was observed that there was an increase in nugget diameter and maximum load bearing capacity of the joint with an increase in heat input, until the occurrence of expulsion. Furthermore, critical nugget diameter for pull-out failure was determined and existing empirical models were verified for the applicability in this case. None of the existing empirical models could predict the critical nugget diameter correctly and thus a new empirical relationship between sheet thickness and critical nugget diameter for zinc coated dissimilar steels has been proposed. Failure behaviour of the spot-welded sheets were studied under tensile–shear configuration under quasi-static and fatigue mode of loading and it showed substantial difference in location of crack initiation and fractographic features. Tensile–shear specimen at optimum welding parameter failed from the base metal of the IF steel side with dimples on the fracture surface, whereas fatigue specimen failed from the heat affected zone of the IF steel side with transgranular striations on the fracture surface.

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Kishore, K., Kumar, P. & Mukhopadhyay, G. Microstructure, Tensile and Fatigue Behaviour of Resistance Spot Welded Zinc Coated Dual Phase and Interstitial Free Steel. Met. Mater. Int. 28, 945–965 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12540-020-00939-8

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