• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.81-91
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• 2008

The weldability of resistance spot welding of TRIP1180 steels for automobile components investigated enhance in order to achieve understanding of weld fracture during tensile-shear strength (TSS) test. The main failure modes for spot welds of TRIP1180 steels were nugget pullout and interfacial fracture. The peak load to cause a weld interfacial failure was found to be related to fracture toughness of the weld and the weld diameter. Although interfacial fracture occurred in the spot welded samples, the load-carrying capacity of the weld was high and not significantly affected by the fracture mode. Substantial part of the weld exhibits the characteristic dimple (or elongated dimple) fractures on interfacial fractured surface also, dimple fracture areas were drawmatically increased with heat input which is propotional to the applied weld current. In spite of the high hardness values associated with the martensite microstructures due to high cooling rate. The high load-carrying ability of the weld is directly associated with the area of ductile fracture occurred in weld. Therefore, the judgment of the quality of resistance spot welds in TRIP1180 steels, the load-carrying capacity of the weld should be considered as an important factor than fracture mode.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.333-340
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• 2017

The cyclic hardening behavior of transformation-induced plasticity (TRIP) steels shows tension-compression asymmetry known to be attributed to transformation of retained austenite into martensite during deformation. In this work, YoshidaUemori hardening model was used to represent the asymmetric hardening behavior of TRIP1180 steel. Yoshida-Uemori hardening model parameters were obtained from three sets of data: tension-compression, compression-tension, and a combination of the two. Material models were validated for U-bending and springback.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2014

For the resistance spot welds of CR1180 and GA1180 TRIP steels, the weld quality evaluation method using the digitalized X-ray transmission imaging apparatus was investigated in comparison with the crosssectional examination method. In the case of the resistance spot welding of CR1180, three circular regions, such as WZ(white zone), GZ(grey zone) and DZ(dark zone), appeared on X-ray image and they corresponded to the diameters of indentation mark, nugget and corona bond, respectively. The variation of X-ray transmission thickness due to the thickness variation of the weld seemed to be mainly responsible for the formation of those contrasts. The X-ray image contrast formed from the variation of transmission thickness at the outer border line of DZ could also enable the inspections of the notch shape, nonuniformity of the welding pressure and spatter from its sharpness, concentricity and the normal straight line, respectively. The X-ray image of the resistance spot weld of galvannealed GA1180 TRIP steel was very similar to that of CR1180 TRIP steel except the crown shaped outer border line of DZ which was considered to be due to the melting behavior of zinc having the boiling temperature even lower than the melting temperature of steel.

• 대한금속재료학회지
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• 제49권12호
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• pp.967-976
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• 2011

Conventional fracture tests of resistance spot welds have been performed without consideration of the paint baking process in the automobile manufacturing line. The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of the paint baking process on load carrying capacity and fracture mode for resistance spot welded 590 dual phase (DP), 780DP, 980DP, 590 transformation in duced plasticity (TRIP), 780TRIP and 1180 complex phase (CP) steels. With paint baking after resistance spot welding, the l-shape tensile test (LTT) and nano-indentation test were conducted on the as-welded and paint baked samples. Paint baking increased the load-carrying capacity of the resistance spot welded samples and improved the fracture appearance from partial interfacial fracture (PIF) to button fracture (BF). Improvement in fracture appearance after LTT is observed on weldments of 780 MPa grade TRIP steels, especially in the low welding current range with paint baking conditions. The higher carbon contents (or carbon equivalent) are attributed to the low weldability of the resistance spot welding of high strength steels. Improvement of the fracture mode and load carrying ability has been achieved with ferrite hardening and carbide formation during the paint baking process. The average nano-indentation hardness profile for each weld zone shows hardening of the base metal and softening of the heat affected zone (HAZ) and the weld metal, which proves that microstructural changes occur during low temperature heat treatment.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권12호
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• pp.644-649
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• 2017

자동차 산업에서는 환경 문제와 국제 유가 상승 등으로 인한 차량 경량화에 대한 요구가 증대되고 있다. 이에 따라 알루미늄 합금과 특수 소재 등이 차량 중량을 줄이는데 활용되고 있지만 비용과 강도 측면에서 철강소재를 극복하기 에는 여전히 많은 어려움이 있다. 따라서 강도와 성형성이 좋은 AHSS(Advanced High Strength Steel) 소재의 적용이 증가하고 있다. 특히 운전자 보호를 위한 안전 규제가 강화되면서 센터필러 (Center Pillar), 루프레일 (Roof Rail) 부분에 1.2GPa급 초고강도 강재의 적용이 점차 늘어나고 있으며 이종강재에 대한 자동차 차체 적용 또한 점차 증가하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 SGAFC1180 1.2t 강재의 저항 점용접성 및 용접부의 특성을 파악하였다. 시뮬레이션을 이용하여 너깃의 생성 및 성장 거동을 관찰하였으며 예측 성능은 오차율 10% 이내에서 유사한 경향을 나타내었다. 또한 이러한 거동이 공정변수인 동저항에 미치는 영향을 파악하였고 전단인장강도 및 너깃 직경과의 상관관계를 고찰하였다. 본 연구를 통하여 동저항의 패턴을 인식하여 패턴의 형태에 따라 용접 상태를 분류하고 용접 품질을 판단하는 시스템도 제안할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.