New Trends on Spot Welding in Metals and Alloys
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Welding and Joining".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 2076
Special Issue Editor
Interests: welding and joining; mechanical behavior of materials; materials processing; advanced materials; mechanical properties; microstructure; material characterization; SEM analysis; materials; mechanical testing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Welding and joining is an inevitable manufacturing method that is continuously advancing and gaining tremendous impetus in industry and academia to unravel need-driven challenges and weldability of new materials and their alloys while improving the overall quality of weldments. Advancement in technology and knowledge has been helpful in the emergence of reliable procedures and innovations for welding/joining lightweight alloys, dissimilar alloys, composites, heavy alloys, and hard metals. On this note, this Special Issue aims to bring together the new trends in spot welding and its allied joining processes with an emphasis on welding mechanism, interface formation, mechanics and analysis, process-microstructure-properties interrelationship, weld defect mitigation approaches, and so on.
Original research and review articles covering the following topics (but not limited to these) are welcomed:
- Weldability of new materials, and difficult to weld metals and their alloys;
- Hybrid welding;
- Brazing of metals and alloys especially difficult to weld materials such as composites and heavy alloys/hard metals;
- Ultrasonic welding;
- Laser or electron beam welding and micro-joining;
- Resistance spot welding (RSW) and its variances;
- Solid-state joining processes like friction stir spot welding (FSSW), modified friction stir spot welding (MFSSW), friction stir spot welding-brazing (FSSW-B), modified friction stir spot clinching (MFSSC), clinching/mechanical clinching, etc.;
- Diffusion welding and eutectic bonding;
- Plasma arc welding;
- Cold metal transfer welding;
- Process parameter optimization;
- Simulation of welding processes with experimental validations.
Dr. Olatunji Oladimeji Ojo
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- welding
- spot welds
- joining
- fracture
- microstructure
- mechanical properties
