A modular workstation includes a work module support having at least one work module support fastening region for fixing a work module to the work module support, a plurality of the work modules having a work module fastening region for detachable fixing to a work module support fastening region of the work module support. At least one of the work modules includes a work carrier movable in at least one movement mode and a work carrier drive for driving the work carrier for movement in the at least one movement mode.

A hot formed joined blank includes a first metal blank having an ultimate tensile strength of ≥about 1300 MPa to ≤about 2000 MPa and defining a first surface, a second metal blank having an ultimate tensile strength of ≥about 400 MPa to ≤about 1200 MPa and defining a second coated surface having a coating disposed thereon. The coating includes aluminum and silicon or in alternative variations, zinc. A third surface of the second metal blank is joined to the first surface of the first metal blank to form the hot formed joined blank. A weld nugget is disposed along a boundary between the first and second metal blanks that is configured to join the first and second metal blanks, where the weld nugget optionally includes less than or equal to about 1.5 weight percent aluminum or a microstructure comprising austenite and delta-ferrite.

A manufacturing method for a joint body having a first metal member and a second metal member joined together by causing a laser oscillation system to irradiate a surface of the second metal member placed on the first metal member with laser light to form a joint portion including a welded portion where the first metal member and the second metal member are joined together includes continuously supplying the second metal member while pressing the second metal member against the first metal member, the second metal member being a hoop material, and causing the laser oscillation system to emit the laser light.

A wire for gas-shielded arc welding includes, based on a total mass of the wire C: 0.01 mass % or more and 0.10 mass % or less, Si: 0.05 mass % or more and 0.55 mass % or less, Mn: 1.60 mass % or more and 2.40 mass % or less, Ti: 0.05 mass % or more and 0.25 mass % or less, Cu: 0.30 mass % or less, Al: 0.10 mass % or less, P: 0.025 mass % or less, and S: 0.010 mass % or less with the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities. In addition, the following relationship is satisfied: 0.1≤[Ti]/[Si]≤3.0, where [Si] is the content of Si (mass %) based on the total mass of the wire and [Ti] is the content of Ti (mass %) based on the total mass of the wire.

This joint component is a joint component including a first steel member, a second steel member, and a spot-welded portion that joins the first steel member and the second steel member, in which the first steel member includes a steel sheet substrate having a predetermined chemical composition and a coating that is formed on a surface of the steel sheet substrate, contains Al and Fe, and has a thickness of 25 μm or more, in a cross section in a thickness direction of the first steel member and the second steel member including the spot-welded portion, a filled metal containing Al and Fe is present in a gap between the first steel member and the second steel member in a periphery of the spot-welded portion, in the cross section, the filled metal has a cross-sectional area of 3.0×10.sup.4 μm.sup.2 or more, and has a filling ratio of 80% or more in the gap in a range of 100 μm from an end portion of a corona bond formed in the periphery of the spot-welded portion, and includes a first region and a second region.

A resistance spot welding method for spot welding plural steel sheets including at least one galvanized steel sheet containing 0.08 mass % or more of C and 0.50 mass % or more of Si and having a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more, the resistance spot welding method includes, using a pair of electrodes including a pair of electrode tips configured to sandwich and pressurize the plural steel sheets and a pressurizing force absorbing mechanism provided in at least one of the pair of electrode tips and capable of absorbing a pressurizing force in an axial direction of the electrode tips, welding by sandwiching the plural steel sheets between the pair of electrode tips and energizing the pair of electrode tips with a pressurizing force applied, while absorbing a fluctuation load of the pressurizing force generated during the energization by the pressurizing force absorbing mechanism.

An apparatus for predicting and/or reducing a deformation of an assembly brought about during production of a weld seam that connects a first component and a second component of the assembly includes a device that is configured to determine and/or provide a finite element (FE) model of the assembly where the FE model includes a set of FEs for the weld seam and a set of FEs for the first component and the second component. The device is further configured to induce a spatial contraction of the set of FEs for the weld seam, determine an effect of the spatial contraction on the set of FEs for the first component and/or the second component, and predict a spatial deformation of the first component and/or of the second component on a basis of the effect on the set of FEs for the first component and/or the second component.

One embodiment of the present invention relates to a welded member obtained by overlapping portions of two sheets of base metal and performing fillet welding thereon using weld material, and provides a welded member having excellent fatigue strength of welded portion, and a method for manufacturing same, the welded member comprising base metal, a weld bead and root-reinforcing weld metal, wherein the base metal has a tensile strength of 780 MPa, the weld bead has a toe angle of 160 degrees or greater and the weld bead and the root-reinforcing weld metal have a Vicker's hardness of 280-320 Hv and a fatigue strength of 350 MPa or higher.

An exemplary embodiment of the present invention discloses an aluminum-based blank including: a first plated steel plate; a second plated steel plate connected to the first plated steel plate; and a joint connecting the first plated steel plate and the second plated steel plate at a boundary between the first plated steel plate and the second plated steel plate.

Parts (10) for connection to at least one further part (30, 30′). The part (10) has at least two weld sections (11, 11′) to be welded individually to at least one of the further parts (30, 30′) by vibration welding. Each weld section (11, 11′) has at least one weld surface (13, 13′), for connection to the corresponding further part (30, 30′), and is spatially separated from each other weld section (11, 11′) by at least one vibration decoupling zone (14, 14′,23, 26). The part (10) has a particular arrangement of the weld section (11, 11′) with respect to the center of gravity (S) or has a particular mass distribution with respect to the weld section (11, 11′). Methods for connecting a part to at least one further part (30, 30′) and a composite part (90) containing a part (10) and a further part (30, 30′) are also disclosed.