An excess metal amount setting method includes: a thermal shrinkage prediction step of predicting a thermal shrinkage amount in the deposited body after manufacturing; a thermal shrinkage modifying step of obtaining a thermal deformation modifying profile by expanding a target profile according to the thermal shrinkage amount; a release strain prediction step of predicting an elastic deformation amount due to release strain of the deposited body after machining; an elastic deformation modifying step of obtaining an elastic deformation modifying profile by deforming the thermal deformation modifying profile according to the elastic deformation amount in a direction opposite to a deformation direction due to the release strain; and an excess metal amount setting step of adjusting an outer edge shape of the deposited body so that an excess metal amount from the elastic deformation modifying profile to an outer edge of the deposited body falls within a predetermined reference range.

The present disclose provides a method of resistance spot welding that can inhibit Liquid Metal Embrittlement-induced cracking in zinc-coated steel plates irrespective of the plate thicknesses. One aspect of the present disclosure provides a method of resistance spot welding that includes welding a workpiece with a resistance spot welding apparatus. The workpiece includes two or more steel plates in an overlapping state. The two or more steel plates include at least one steel plate coated with zinc. The welding includes causing a cooling rate of a high-tensile steel plate among the two or more steel plates to be higher than a cooling rate of an other steel plate among the two or more steel plates. The high-tensile steel plate has a tensile strength higher than a tensile strength of the other steel plate.

Cladding of the interior of a component part of a pressure vessel is shown. A lining which conforms to at least a portion of the interior geometry of the component is positioned in the interior of the component. The lining is then pressed into the component past its yield strength. The lining is then fused to the component.

An additive manufacturing system includes an energy source and a material delivery device. The energy source is configured to direct an energy beam toward a component to form a melt pool. The material delivery device is configured to feed a wire toward the melt pool to deposit material on the component. In some examples, the material delivery device is configured to discharge a current to the wire to disengage the wire from the melt pool. In some examples, the material delivery device is configured to measure an arc voltage between the wire and the component.

A base material is welded by a first welding method in a case where a welding parameter related to heat input to the base material is less than a first threshold value. The base material is welded by a second welding method in a case where the welding parameter is less than a second threshold value and is more than the first threshold value. The base material is welded by a third welding method in a case where the welding parameter is more than the second threshold value. By adjusting welding conditions regardless of the thickness of the base material, a welding method suitable for the thickness of the base material is determined to provide a welding with little spatter and no meltdown of the base material.

A spot welded member includes a spot weld formed by holding a sheet stack of multiple steel sheets between a pair of electrodes and spot-welding the sheet stack, in which at least one of the multiple steel sheets is a high-strength zinc-based coated steel sheet having a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more, the high-strength zinc-based coated steel sheet having a coating with an Al content of 0.5% or more by mass, and in which the heat shock region of the spot weld outwardly extending from an edge of a corona bond area includes a coated layer including an FeAl alloy layer having an average thickness of 0.3 ?m or more and a zinc-based coated layer having an average thickness of 2.0 ?m or more on the FeAl alloy layer at the interface between the base steel sheet of the high-strength zinc-based coated steel sheet and the coating.

This spot welded joint includes a first steel sheet having tensile strength of 1100 MPa or higher and hard martensitic structure as main structure, a second steel sheet stacked on the first steel sheet, a nugget having diameter D at an interface between the first and second steel sheets and formed between the first and second steel sheets, and a hardness control region occupying, in a cross section of the first steel sheet in sheet thickness direction that passes a nugget center, a region that is the first steel sheet in sheet thickness direction and is from 0.5?D to 1.0?D from the nugget center in sheet surface direction and in which difference between maximum value and minimum value in hardness in the region is 80 HV or less, and the maximum hardness value in the region is lower than the maximum hardness value of the first steel sheet.

A dual pass seam welding method for steels having a Ceq of greater than about 0.45. The first pass welds the immediately anneals the weld. On the second pass, the welder is disengaged, and the weld is subjected to a second anneal.

A welding method includes: emitting laser beam toward a workpiece including a metal to melt and weld a part of the workpiece, the part being where the laser beam has been emitted to. Further, the laser beam includes a main power region and at least one auxiliary power region, a power of the main power region is larger than a power of each of the at least one auxiliary power region, and a ratio between the power of the main power region and the total of powers of the at least one auxiliary power region is in a range of 144:1 to 1:9.

A method for manufacturing a sandwich panel as a semi-finished product where at least one layer of a non-metallic material is positioned between at least two metallic layers. At least one of the metal layers is shaped into a three dimensional layer and the metal layers are material closured to each other by a tack weld on the metallic contacts between the metallic layers to enable resistance weldability of the semi-finished product in order to connect the semi-finished product to a desired combination of solutions.