IP Library Granted Patent US 8,689,637
Granted Patent B2
US 8,689,637 · App. 13/634,365 · Granted Apr 8, 2014

Fracture analysis method, device, and program for spot welded portion, and computer-readable recording medium

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Patent No.
US 8,689,637
App. No.
13/634,365
Granted
Apr 8, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

Maximum allowable load values of a welded portion in respective fracture modes of a load fracture, a moment fracture, and a nugget interior fracture are found based on at least one of a sheet thickness t, a tensile strength TS, an elongation El, and a chemical composition of a nugget portion in each of spot-welded steel sheets, a nugget diameter d of a welded portion, an effective width B of the welded portion determined by a distance between adjacent welded portions, edges or ridge lines, and a sectional height H. Then, according to these fracture modes, an allowable load value at every moment after the maximum allowable load value of the welded portion is reached is found, and a displacement or a time at which the allowable load value becomes 0, that is, at which a complete fracture occurs is found, thereby finding a fracture limit.

Claims (17)

1. A fracture analysis method for a spot welded portion comprising:

finding a maximum allowable load value of a welded portion in each of the predetermined fracture mode selected from the group consisting of a load fracture, a moment fracture, and a nugget interior fracture using a formula determined in advance based on at least a sheet thickness t, a tensile strength TS, an elongation El, and a chemical composition of a nugget portion in each of spot-welded steel sheets, a nugget diameter d of the welded portion, an effective width B of the welded portion determined by a distance between adjacent welded portions, edges or ridge lines, and a sectional height H; and

finding an allowable load value in each of the predetermined fracture mode at every moment of a plurality of moments after the maximum allowable load value of the welded portion is reached by using spot welding modeled by a finite element method according to the predetermined fracture mode, and finding a displacement or a time at which the allowable load value becomes 0.

2. The fracture analysis method for the spot welded portion according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined fracture mode is a moment fracture and the maximum allowable load value thereof is corrected by the sectional height H.

3. The fracture analysis method for the spot welded portion according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined fracture mode is a nugget interior fracture, and in finding the maximum allowable load value thereof, a thickness-direction weighted average C eq of a nugget portion carbon equivalent, expressed by the following formula is used as a kind i (i=1 to n) of a welded test piece:

C eq =Σ i=1 n {t i ·C eq i }/Σ i=1 n {t i }.

4. The fracture analysis method for the spot welded portion according to claim 1 , wherein in the step of finding the maximum allowable load value, when the number of the welded steel sheets is three or more, two welded portions or more where the three steel sheets or more are joined are separately subjected to the determination, and in the determination, as the sheet thickness of the steel sheet stacked on a rear surface side, a total sheet thickness of the steel sheets stacked on the rear surface side is adopted.

5. The fracture analysis method for the spot welded portion according to claim 1 , further comprising outputting information obtained in the step of finding the maximum allowable load value and the step of finding the allowable load value.

6. A fracture analysis device for a spot welded portion comprising:

means for finding a maximum allowable load value of a welded portion in each of the predetermined fracture mode selected from the group consisting of a load fracture, a moment fracture, and a nugget interior fracture using a formula determined in advance based on at least a sheet thickness t, a tensile strength TS, an elongation El, and a chemical composition of a nugget portion in each of spot-welded steel sheets, a nugget diameter d of the welded portion, an effective width B of the welded portion determined by a distance between adjacent welded portions, edges or ridge lines, and a sectional height H; and

means for finding an allowable load value in each of the predetermined fracture mode at every moment of a plurality of moments after the maximum allowable load value of the welded portion is reached by using spot welding modeled by a finite element method according to the predetermined fracture mode, and finding a displacement or a time at which the allowable load value becomes 0.

7. A program causing a computer to execute:

finding a maximum allowable load value of a welded portion in each of the predetermined fracture mode selected from the group consisting of a load fracture, a moment fracture, and a nugget interior fracture using a formula determined in advance based on at least a sheet thickness t, a tensile strength TS, an elongation El, and a chemical composition of a nugget portion in each of spot-welded steel sheets, a nugget diameter d of the welded portion, an effective width B of the welded portion determined by a distance between adjacent welded portions, edges or ridge lines, and a sectional height H; and

finding an allowable load value in each of the predetermined fracture mode at every moment of a plurality of moments after the maximum allowable load value of the welded portion is reached by using spot welding modeled by a finite element method according to the predetermined fracture mode, and finding a displacement or a time at which the allowable load value becomes 0.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program causing a computer to execute:

finding a maximum allowable load value of a welded portion in each of the predetermined fracture mode selected from the group consisting of a load fracture, a moment fracture, and a nugget interior fracture using a formula determined in advance based on at least a sheet thickness t, a tensile strength TS, an elongation El, and a chemical composition of a nugget portion in each of spot-welded steel sheets, a nugget diameter d of a welded portion, an effective width B of the welded portion determined by a distance between adjacent welded portions, edges or ridge lines, and a sectional height H; and

finding an allowable load value in each of the predetermined fracture mode at every moment of a plurality of moments after the maximum allowable load value of the welded portion is reached by using spot welding modeled by a finite element method according to the predetermined fracture mode, and finding a displacement or a time at which the allowable load value becomes 0.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 14, 2019
From: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
To: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049257/0828 →
MERGER Recorded Mar 13, 2013
From: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
To: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 029980/0103 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 12, 2012
From: YOSHIDA, HIROSHI; NOMURA, NARUHIKO; UENISHI, AKIHIRO
To: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 028944/0721 →