Warren — General Motors Co. believes it is the first automaker to weld steel to aluminum through resistance spot welding, a technique it spent some two years developing and expects will save weight ...

Proven Testing System Meets New Joining Process InfraTec and Volkswagen Sachsen have been working together since 2007 on ...

The surface contact resistance of aluminum can be stabilized in a suitable micro-ohm range and this will prolong tiplife during spot welding. Alloys 2036-T4 and 5182-0 were processed to give 75 ...

Back row: Two tube sections before and after joining. Front row: A typical fuel-system component assembled with the ADRW process. ADRW may also replace furnace brazing in some cases, once considered ...

Spot welding looks simple and easy until your products fall apart while being delivered to the job site. When that happened to one contractor several years ago, spot welding suddenly took on a whole ...

The use of collaborative robots (cobots) for welding applications has been one of the most rapidly expanding cobot applications over the past few years, with several companies offering a variety of ...

Joining one flat piece of metal to another flat piece of metal is a common requirement, but sometimes the choice of method lies open. For a case in point, please consider these two kitchen spatulas in ...

Several techniques are available for joining thermoplastic composites, including resistance welding and ultrasonic welding. While resistance welding uses Joule heating inside an electrically ...