TY - JOUR A1 - Brauser, Stephan A1 - Pepke, Lutz-Alexander A1 - Weber, Gert A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Deformation behaviour of spot-welded high strength steels for automotive applications JF - Materials science and engineering A N2 - Numerical simulation of component and assembly behaviour under different loading conditions is a main tool for safety design in automobile body shell mass production. Knowledge of local material behaviour is fundamental to such simulation tests. As a contribution to the verification of simulation results, the local deformation properties of spot-welded similar and dissimilar material joints in shear tension tests were investigated in this study for a TRIP steel (HCT690T) and a micro-alloyed steel (HX340LAD). For this reason, the local strain distribution was calculated by the digital image correlation technique (DIC). On the basis of the hardness values and microstructure of the spot welds, the differences in local strain between the selected material combinations are discussed. Additionally, the retained austenite content in the TRIP steel was analysed to explain the local strain values. Results obtained in this study regarding similar material welds suggest significant lower local strain values of the TRIP steel HCT690T compared to HX340LAD. One reason could be the decrease of retained austenite in the welded area. Furthermore, it has been ascertained that the local strain in dissimilar material welds decreases for each component compared with the corresponding similar material weld. KW - Resistance spot welding KW - Deformation behaviour KW - Advanced high strength steel KW - TRIP steel KW - Similar and dissimilar material spot weld KW - EBSD KW - SEM KW - Strain field PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2010.07.091 SN - 0921-5093 SN - 1873-4936 VL - 527 IS - 26 SP - 7099 EP - 7108 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-21921 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -