XIAO Yao,LI Zhi,QIN Fu-cheng,WANG Chong,DONG Shi-jie,LUO Ping.Failure Process Analysis of Electrodes with TiB2-ZrB2/Ni Coatings for Spot Welding Galvanized Steel Sheet[J],47(1):142-148
Failure Process Analysis of Electrodes with TiB2-ZrB2/Ni Coatings for Spot Welding Galvanized Steel Sheet
Received:July 10, 2017  Revised:January 20, 2018
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DOI:10.16490/j.cnki.issn.1001-3660.2018.01.022
KeyWord:TiB2-ZrB2/Ni coatings  resistance spot welding  electrode failure  alloying  plastic deformation  failure analysis
                 
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XIAO Yao 1.Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Green Materials for Light Industry, Wuhan , China; 2.School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan , China
LI Zhi 1.Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Green Materials for Light Industry, Wuhan , China; 2.School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan , China
QIN Fu-cheng 1.Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Green Materials for Light Industry, Wuhan , China; 2.School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan , China
WANG Chong 1.Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Green Materials for Light Industry, Wuhan , China; 2.School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan , China
DONG Shi-jie 1.Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Green Materials for Light Industry, Wuhan , China; 2.School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan , China
LUO Ping 1.Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Green Materials for Light Industry, Wuhan , China; 2.School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan , China
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Abstract:
      The work aims to reveal failure mechanism of electrodes with TiB2-ZrB2/Ni coatings for spot welding galvanized steel sheet. Changes in surface structure, phase and properties of the coatings for spot welding galvanized steel sheet were characterized with scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffractometer and microhardness test, respectively. Applying TiB2-ZrB2/Ni coatings to electrodes could significantly improve service life of spot-welding electrodes by nearly 5 times. Surface hardness of electrodes was obviously increased by the ZrB2-TiB2/Ni coatings, which slowed down plastic deformation on tips of coated elec¬trodes. In addition, the ZrB2-TiB2/Ni coatings could mitigate alloying reaction between steel sheet coatings and spot-welding electrodes to some extent. The coatings will not drop off completely during the process of spot welding as ZrB2-TiB2/Ni-coated electrodes are of certain plasticity. The coatings acts until the electrodes fail, and primary form of electrode failure is plastic deformation.
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