DEFORMATION INFLUENCE ON A LIFETIME OF WELDING ELECTRODE TIPS.docVIP

19 Materials Engineering, Vol. 16, 2009, No. 3 DEFORMATION INFLUENCE ON A LIFETIME OF WELDING ELECTRODE TIPS Ján Viňá? ,Milan ábel , ?ubo? Ka??ák3 1 2 Received 4 February 2009; accepted in revised form 19 February 2009 th th Abstract The contribution deals with the influence of welding electrode tips deformation on their lifetime. The influence of material properties, production technology and the intensity of welding electrodes load on their lifetime are presented. The electrode tips of the most used type of CuCr1Zr alloy of three basic standard shapes before and after the process of welding are evaluated. The process of welding is realized with low, middle and maximum welding parameters on programmable pneumatic spot welding machine VTS BPK 20. The influence of welding parameters on chosen material characteristics of welding tips is observed. Through the use of upsetting test, dependency of forming strength and deformation of material on used technology of welding tip production is observed.. Keywords: welding tips, lifetime, deformation 1. Introduction evaluated [2]. Electrodes were made from CuCr1Zr alloy, which physical and chemical properties are according standard STN ISO 5182 presented in Table 1. One of the most dynamic developing world industries at the present time is automotive industry. Production of automobiles is continuously increasing and demands on quality are still higher. Various conventional and unconventional technologies of welding are used for joining of car- body sheets. The most used method of car-body sheets welding is resistance spot welding. Despite of beginning to use special technologies of joining (laser welding, laser soldering, MIG welding and soldering, and also press joining and adhesive bondin