TY - GEN A1 - Hagen, Christian A1 - Klinkenberg, Franz-Josef A1 - Ossenbrink, Ralf A1 - Michailov, Vesselin T1 - Resistance spot welding of dissimilar material joints with a cold-gas-sprayed inlayer T2 - The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology N2 - In this publication, cold gas spraying (CGS) is investigated as an enabler for aluminum-steel joints. Using a powder-based coating process to adhere a steel layer to an aluminum substrate allows a steel component to be welded to the deposited layer by resistance spot welding. This method permits the metallurgical connection between similar materials to be separated, while mechanical bonding ensures the connection at the dissimilar aluminum-to-inlayer interface. A modification of the porous CGS layer, as well as the creation of the remelted zone in the aluminum, can be observed during the resistance spot welding process. Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) analyses show that the severely prestressed particles in the CGS coating recrystallize, which coincides with a decrease in defect density and hardness in the heat-affected zone. Microscopy of the aluminum substrate shows the creation of metallurgical pores as well as the expansion of pores attributed to the casting process. The rise in remelted aluminum hardness and decrease in the heat-affected zone of the CGS layer indicate the formation of a metallurgical notch. KW - resistance spot weld KW - rsw KW - cold gas spray KW - cgs KW - inlayer KW - dissimilar joint KW - aluminium-steel weld Y1 - 2023 UR - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00170-023-11897-x U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-023-11897-x SN - 1433-3015 SN - 0268-3768 ER -