The necessity to reduce the weight of transport structures, such as cars and airplanes, has become more important due to gas emission regulations. In this regard, the use of hybrid structures made of steel and aluminum is ...

In the last years Friction Stir Welding has produced a big impact on several industries due to its advantages. Particularly,automotive industry has developed a variant of the original process named Friction Stir Spot Welding ...

The efforts to produce automobiles with intense use of aluminum alloys is growing and the 6XXX series of aluminum alloys are important for this scenario. However, the current joining technologies applied in these alloys ...

Refill Friction Stir Spot Welding (RFSSW) is an innovative method for joining similar and dissimilar lightweight metallic materials or thermoplastics. This technique has the advantage of issuing energy savings, producing ...

The automotive industry is shifting to a new paradigm of material utilization in vehicles. Different parts of the car structural body are increasingly being made of materials selected to have a customized performance ...

Aiming at structural weight reduction and energy efficiency, aluminum alloys have been considered as potential materials for automobile manufacturing. The development of technologies able to join aluminum alloys more ...

Polymeric components have been replacing traditional materials such as glass or metals in a wide range of applications due to their advantages, such as optimized specific strength (weight-to-strength ratio), reduced ...

Different processes are currently being used to weld aluminum and copper in a multilayered configuration in battery pouches for the automotive industry. The methods most used are mechanical joint, ultrasonic welding, laser ...