Electrode wear during spot welding of coated steels

Welding and Metal Fabrication

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 110-114

  Chatterjee, K L ^a   Waddell, W ^a  

^a SWINDEN TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOYING; CAVITATION; COATED MATERIALS; CORROSION RESISTANCE; EROSION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; GEOMETRY; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); STEEL; WEAR OF MATERIALS; WELDING ELECTRODES;

COATED STEELS; ELECTRODE GEOMETRY; ELECTRODE WEAR; MACHINE CHARACTERISTICS; MAXIMISING ELECTRODE LIFE; SELF HEALING; THERMAL FATIGUE;

SPOT WELDING;

EID: 0030107189     PISSN: 00432245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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