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Eftekharimilani, P. (author)The potential for weight reduction, ease of manufacturing and improved crashworthiness makes advanced and ultra high strength steels attractive for automotive applications. Resistance spot welding is by far the most widely used joining method in the automotive industry due to the high operating speeds, the reliability of the process and the...doctoral thesis 2019
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Banis, Alexandros (author), Hernandez Duran, E.I. (author), Bliznuk, Vitaliy (author), Sabirov, Ilchat (author), Petrov, R.H. (author), Papaefthymiou, Spyros (author)The effect of ultra-fast heating on the microstructures of steel has been thoroughly studied over the last year as it imposes a suitable alternative for the production of ultra high strength steel grades. Rapid reheating followed by quenching leads to fine-grained mixed microstructures. This way the desirable strength/ductility ratio can be...journal article 2019
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Papaefthymiou, Spyros (author), Banis, Alexandros (author), Bouzouni, Marianthi (author), Petrov, R.H. (author)The current work focuses on complex multiphase microstructures gained in CrMo medium carbon steel after ultra-fast heat treatment, consisting of heating with heating rate of 300 C/s, 2 s soaking at peak temperature and subsequent quenching. In order to better understand the microstructure evolution and the phenomena that take place during...journal article 2019
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Agarwal, G. (author), Gao, H. (author), Amirthalingam, M. (author), Richardson, I.M. (author), Hermans, M.J.M. (author)Advanced high-strength steels (AHSS), which are increasingly used in the automotive industry, meet many functional requirements such as high strength and crash resistance. Some of these steels contain high amounts of alloying elements, which are required to achieve the necessary mechanical properties, but render these steels susceptible to weld...conference paper 2018
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Eftekharimilani, P. (author), Gao, H. (author), Huizenga, R.M. (author), van der Aa, EM (author), Amirthalingam, M. (author), Richardson, I.M. (author), Hermans, M.J.M. (author)Advanced high strength steels (AHSS) are increasingly used in automotive industry; thousands of resistance spot welds are applied to car body-in-white. High alloying levels of AHSS result in lower weldability. Residual stresses play an essential role on the formation of defects and the mechanical performance of the weld. An electrical-thermal...conference paper 2018
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Agarwal, G. (author), Gao, H. (author), Amirthalingam, M. (author), Hermans, M.J.M. (author)Susceptibility to weld solidification cracking in transformation-induced plasticity steel sheets was studied using a modified standard hot cracking test used in the automotive industry. To vary the amount of self-restraint, bead-on-plate laser welding was carried out on a single-sided clamped specimen at increasing distances from the free...journal article 2018