Formability of aluminum tailor-welded blanks

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Kridli, Ghassan T ^a   Friedman, Peter A ^b   Sherman, Andrew M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

^b FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY STEEL; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GAGES; GAS METAL ARC WELDING; GAS WELDING; LASER BEAM WELDING; WELDS;

AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS; GAS TUNGSTEN ARC WELDING PROCESS; STRENGTH AND STIFFNESS; TAILOR-WELDED BLANKS; TAILORWELDED BLANKS (TWBS); WEIGHT SAVING; WELD ORIENTATIONS; WELD PROPERTIES;

METAL DRAWING;

EID: 85072455759     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2000-01-0772     Document Type: Conference Paper

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