TY - RPRT A1 - Rethmeier, Michael A1 - Weber, Gert A1 - Gaul, H. A1 - Brauser, Stephan T1 - Untersuchungen zur Ermüdungsfestigkeit von Widerstandspunktschweißverbindungen aus hochfesten Mehrphasenstählen unter Berücksichtigung fertigungsspezifischer Einflüsse N2 - Unter den rauen Bedingungen in der Automobilrohkarosseriefertigung lassen sich schweißbedingte Imperfektionen wie Risse beim Widerstandspunktschweißen von hochfesten Stählen nicht immer vermeiden. Für die sichere Auslegung ist die Kenntnis über den Einfluss solcher Risse von erheblicher Bedeutung. PY - 2011 SN - 978-3-942541-04-6 VL - P 802 SP - 1 EP - 86 PB - Verlag und Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH CY - Düsseldorf AN - OPUS4-25450 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Brauser, Stephan A1 - Pepke, Lutz-Alexander A1 - Weber, Gert A1 - Rethmeier, Michael A1 - Göklü, S. T1 - Einfluss der Schweißstromform auf die Schweißbereiche und die Festigkeit beim Widerstandpunktschweißen moderner Automobilwerkstoffe T2 - 21. DVS-Sondertagung "Widerstandsschweissen 2010" CY - Duisburg, Deutschland DA - 2010-05-05 KW - Widerstandschweißen KW - Schweißbereiche KW - Anlagenkonfiguration KW - Schwingfestigkeit PY - 2010 SP - 1 EP - 7(?) CY - Duisburg AN - OPUS4-21561 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Weber, Gert A1 - Rethmeier, Michael A1 - Brauser, Stephan T1 - Extended weldability lobes in resistance spot welding of advanced high strength steels (AHSS) T2 - EUROJOIN 7 - 7th European congress on joining technology CY - Venice, Italy DA - 2009-05-21 KW - Resistance welding KW - High strength steels PY - 2009 IS - Technical Session 2 SP - 1 EP - 15 AN - OPUS4-20524 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brauser, Stephan A1 - Weber, Gert A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Potenzial optischer Dehnungsfeldmessung zur Charakterisierung der Eigenschaften von Widerstandspunktschweißverbindungen N2 - Die Ermittlung lokaler Werkstoffkennwerte im Schweißbereich ist für die Auslegung sicherheitsrelevanter Bauteile insbesondere durch Finite-Elemente-Berechnungen von großer Bedeutung. Konventionelle Prüfmethoden können lediglich globale Kennwerte bereitstellen, die jedoch gerade für die Berechnung widerstandspunktgeschweißter Bauteile häufig nicht ausreichen, da diese durch das Vorliegen örtlich eng begrenzter Fügezonen gekennzeichnet sind. Moderne Prüfmethoden wie die optische Dehnungsfeldmessung ermöglichen hingegen eine orts- und zeitkonkrete Bestimmung der Werkstoffkenndaten. Um das Potenzial optischer Dehnungsfeldmessungen für das Charakterisieren des lokalen Werkstoffverhaltens von Punktschweißverbindungen zu ermitteln, wurden Scherzugversuche sowie Zugversuche an widerstandspunktgeschweißten hochfesten Stählen durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen das hohe Potenzial dieses Verfahrens sowohl für die Quantifizierung des lokalen Dehnungsverhaltens im Fügebereich als auch für die Ermittlung lokaler Werkstoffkenndaten. PY - 2010 SN - 0036-7184 VL - 62 IS - 9 SP - 496 EP - 500 PB - Verl. für Schweißen u. Verwandte Verfahren, DVS-Verl. CY - Düsseldorf AN - OPUS4-22163 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rethmeier, Michael A1 - Brauser, Stephan A1 - Weber, Gert T1 - Potential of optical strain field measurement for the characterisation of the properties of resistance-spot-welded joints N2 - For the designing of safety-relevant components particularly by means of finite element calculations, great significance is attached to the determination of local material parameters in the welding region. Conventional test methods can merely provide global parameters which, however, are frequently not sufficient precisely for the calculation of resistance-spot-welded components since these are characterised by the existence of joining zones with tight local limitations. In contrast, modern test methods such as optical strain field measurement permit the determination of the characteristic material data for concrete locations and times. In order to establish the potential of optical strain field measurements for the characterisation of the local material behaviour of spotwelded joints, tensile shear tests as well as tensile tests were carried out on resistance-spot-welded high-strength steels. The results show the high potential of this procedure not only for the quantification of the local strain behaviour in the joining region but also for the determination of local characteristic material data. PY - 2011 SN - 1612-3433 VL - 10 IS - 1 SP - 48 EP - 52 PB - DVS - German Welding Society CY - Düsseldorf AN - OPUS4-23220 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gaul, Holger A1 - Brauser, Stephan A1 - Weber, Gert A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Methods to obtain weld discontinuities in spot-welded joints made of advanced high-strength steels N2 - Resistance spot welding is the major joining technique in mass car production. This applies in particular to high-strength steel and advanced high-strength steel (AHSS) joining of thin sheet steel components for lightweight body shell structures. Joining of AHSS in mass production might lead to weld discontinuities under certain circumstances. Those discontinuities in form of cracks might be an initial start of cracking in the spot-welded joints regarding fatigue loads. It is of great interest to figure out, if, in comparison to specimens without weld discontinuities, the crack initiating point changes and if the fatigue resistance might be reduced by the discontinuities. In this contribution, an overview of potential discontinuities is given. Their possible causes are discussed and means for their detection are highlighted. Among the possible causes of weld discontinuities, two major groups are distinguished: the welding parameters as primary influences in the welding process, and the production-specific influences as secondary ones. With emphasis on major cracks penetrating the weld nugget, these influences are analysed. Finally, a combination of extreme welding parameters with production-specific influences is chosen in order to establish a method which enables the preparation of fatigue test specimens with reproducible major cracks in different locations of the spot-welded joints. This method is than applied in order to prepare spot weld specimens for fatigue tests. KW - Cracking KW - Defects KW - Fatigue loading KW - High strength steels KW - Resistance spot welding PY - 2011 SN - 0043-2288 SN - 1878-6669 VL - 55 IS - 11/12 SP - 99 EP - 106 PB - Springer CY - Oxford AN - OPUS4-25026 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - 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 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 - TY - JOUR A1 - Brauser, Stephan A1 - Rethmeier, Michael A1 - Pepke, Lutz-Alexander A1 - Weber, Gert T1 - Influence of production-related gaps on strength properties and deformation behaviour of spot welded trip steel HCT690T N2 - In this study, the influence of production-related gaps on the shear tension strength and fatigue performance was investigated for resistance spot welded TRIP steel HCT690. Furthermore, the local strain distribution in shear tension test was calculated by the digital image correlation technique (DIC). The static shear tension strength was found to be almost independent of gaps up to 3 mm. The maximum local strain in the spot weld region however decreases depending on which sample side (deformed or undeformed) is considered. In addition, it has been ascertained that gaps of 3 mm lead to a significant drop in fatigue life compared to gap-free shear tension samples. This fact could be attributed to decreased stiffness, higher transverse vibration and higher rotation (θ) between the sheets as well as increased local stress calculated by 2 dimensional FE simulation. KW - Deformation KW - Fatigue life KW - Finite element analysis KW - Gap KW - Resistance spot welding KW - Shear strength PY - 2012 SN - 0043-2288 SN - 1878-6669 VL - 56 IS - 03-04 SP - 115 EP - 125 PB - Springer CY - Oxford AN - OPUS4-27590 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weber, Gert A1 - Brauser, Stephan A1 - Gaul, Holger A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Study of fatigue behavior for spot welded tensile shear specimens of advanced high strength steels N2 - For automotive body-in-white applications the influence of manufacture-related gaps between the steel sheets and also of manufacture-related surface cracks on the fatigue behavior of tensile shear specimens for spot welded TRIP steel was analyzed. It was shown that gaps between the steel sheets reduce the fatigue strength, whereas the fatigue behavior is neither influenced by cracks in the electrode indentation area nor in the heat effected zone. KW - Automotive manufacteuring KW - Fatigue behavior KW - TRIP Steel HCT690T PY - 2012 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/srin.201100286 SN - 1611-3683 SN - 0177-4832 VL - 83 IS - 10 SP - 988 EP - 994 PB - Verl. Stahleisen CY - Düsseldorf AN - OPUS4-27632 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ullner, Christian A1 - Brauser, Stephan A1 - Subaric-Leitis, Andreas A1 - Weber, Gert A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Determination of local stress-strain properties of resistance spot-welded joints of advanced high-strength steels using the instrumented indentation test N2 - For spot-welded joints, the resistance to mechanical stress depends on the local strength properties and gradients in the weld area. The commonly used methods for investigating the stress–strain behaviour across the weld area are connected with a high level of sample preparation and with considerable limitations in local resolution. A promising method for determining locally resolved stress–strain curves is the instrumented indentation test in connection with the method of representative stress and strain (RS) and the method of artificial neural networks (NNs). The stress–strain properties of the weld nugget and the base metal determined by these two methods are compared and discussed, additionally in relation to the stress–strain curves obtained from the tensile test. The measured Vickers hardness across the weld area is compared with the evaluated local stress–strain properties. Three steels used in automobile manufacturing are investigated: mild steel DC04 and two advanced high-strength steels (TRIP steel HCT690T and martensitic steel HDT 1200M). The results of the two methods (RS and NN) show good correspondence for the base metal area but some significant differences for the weld nugget. Comparing the data across the weld area, no evidence of the presence of residual stress (which would influence the results) was found. KW - Ortsaufgelöst KW - Lokale Spannungs-Dehnungskurven KW - Punktschweißverbindung KW - Instrumentierte Eindringprüfung PY - 2012 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-011-5936-3 SN - 0022-2461 SN - 1573-4803 VL - 47 IS - 3 SP - 1504 EP - 1513 PB - Springer Science + Business Media B.V. CY - Norwell, Mass. AN - OPUS4-25276 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -