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Ultrasonic Spot Welding—Low Energy Manufacturing for Lightweight Fuel Efficient Transport Applications

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High power ultrasonic spot welding is an alternative manufacturing process which recently has been developed for joining automotive bodies. This technique is a very low energy process and forms effective welds in less than a second. The present chapter covers different aspects of High Power Ultrasonic Spot Welding HPUSW technology towards lightweighting for automotive applications. The chapter will include but not limited to similar and dissimilar bonding, mechanism of bonding, interfacial reaction, grain structure, texture development and process model of high power ultrasonic spot welding.

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Haddadi, F. (2017). Ultrasonic Spot Welding—Low Energy Manufacturing for Lightweight Fuel Efficient Transport Applications. In: Gupta, K. (eds) Advanced Manufacturing Technologies. Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56099-1_8

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