A simplified spot weld model for finite element analysis

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Zhang, Shicheng ^a  

^a DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPOT WELDING; WELDS;

AUTOMOTIVE STRUCTURES; COARSE MESHES; MODELING TECHNIQUE; NODAL FORCE; RECENT RESEARCHES; SHELL ELEMENT; STRESS EVALUATIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 85072433233     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2004-01-0818     Document Type: Conference Paper

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