Impact strength measurement of spot welds

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture

Volumn 215, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 403-414

  Zhang, H ^a,c   Zhou, M ^b   Hu, S J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c The University of Toledo   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure mode; Impact energy; Impact test; Pendulum; Spot weld; Static energy; Static test; Strain rate sensitivity; Tensile shear; Weld shape; Weld size

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842536731     PISSN: 09544054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/0954405011515334     Document Type: Article

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