PARAMETRIC STUDY OF MULTI-SPOT WELDED LAP SHEAR SPECIMEN FOR TENSILE AND SHEAR STRENGTH

The effect of number of spots, spot spacing, squeezing force, welding current, weld time, overlapping length and sheet thickness on the tensile and shear strength of two similar galvanized steel sheets are investigated through experiments using RSM method and by using software. Similar sheets of galvanized steel sheets are made by resistance spot welding at different processing conditions and these joint populations were tested under lap-shear loading conditions. Specially fabricated fixture is used to load the lap shear specimen in the universal testing machine Regression analysis is done to obtain relationship between shear strength and selected parameters. The experimental results indicate that the failure loads of spot welds in lap-shear specimens increase when number of spot, squeezing force, welding current and sheet thickness increase for the given ranges

Numerical Simulation of Mixed-Mode Fatigue Crack Growth for Compact Tension Shear Specimen

This work concentrates on the fracture behaviour of the compact tension specimen under mixed-mode loading, and numerical investigation using ANSYS Mechanical APDL 19.2 finite element program with different modes of mix angles is carried out. The prediction of mixed-mode fatigue life under constant amplitude fatigue loading for the compact tension shear specimen (CTS) is employed using Paris’ law model for two different loading angles with agreement to the experimental results. The predicted values of ΔKeq were compared with the experimental and analytical data for various models. Depending on the analysis, the findings of the present study show consistency with the results achieved with similar models of predicting the equivalent stress intensity factor. In addition, the direction of crack growth derived from the analysis was observed to follow the same trend of the literature experimental results.