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Numerical and Experimental Modeling of Spot Welding Defects by Ultrasonic Testing on Similar Sheets and Dissimilar Sheets

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This paper investigates the impact of defects on similar sheets and dissimilar sheets used in the automotive industry. Spot welding is one of the types of resistance welding used in this experiment for sheet welding. The thickness of sheets welded by the spot welding method can be between 0.5 and 3 mm. In this paper, the simulation is performed by finite element method for non-destructive tests on spot welding. This study investigated the propagation of ultrasonic waves in two similar layers of stainless steel and galvanized stainless steel sheets and two dissimilar layers of stainless steel sheets and galvanized stainless steel sheets in different thicknesses. This test was performed by ultrasonic immersion method and the intensity and amplitude of the reaction of the resulting defect waves and its effect on the results were also investigated. Due to the performance of finite element method softwares, Comsol Multiphysics software because of its high accuracy used. It has been studied various factors and conditions including excitation frequency, boundary conditions, the most suitable position for the probr Fto stimulate the waves, focused or unfocused waves in the simulation, sensitivity analysis of mesh size and appropriate mesh size for simulation. In this paper, the joint of similar sheets and dissimilar sheets is investigated. For this performance, the average relative error that can meet the industrial requirement is mentioned. The results of the simulation with the results of the experimental test They were compared and investigated And with the amount of error tests, have acceptable results and it can be used with the error specified and can meet the needs of the automotive industry.

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Esmaeil Mirmahdi Numerical and Experimental Modeling of Spot Welding Defects by Ultrasonic Testing on Similar Sheets and Dissimilar Sheets. Russ J Nondestruct Test 56, 620–634 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1061830920080069

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