Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2024, 26(2):B135-B141 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2024.026

Development of the Bonding Technology of Modern Automotive Materials with Environmentally Friendly Solutions

Zoltan Weltsch ORCID...1, *, Ferenc Tajti ORCID...2, Miklós Berczeli ORCID...2
1 Department of Road and Rail Vehicles, Zalaegerszeg Innovation Park, Szechenyi Istvan University, Gyor, Hungary
2 Department of Innovative Vehicles and Materials, GAMF Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, John von Neumann University, Kecskemet, Hungary

The significance of bonding technology for modern vehicle structural materials is increasingly acknowledged, driven by the adoption of new materials to reduce weight. This is important not only for quality and economic reasons but to address environmental pollution, as well. Traditional joining methods like riveting, screwing, welding, and brazing, are often unsuitable or limited for modern materials. Soldering, an economical and almost waste-free technology, is becoming more widespread. Through optimization, it achieves a strong, durable bond. There is a potential to favourably alter interface properties, including using high energy density surface treatments. Research showed that the laser surface treatment of high-strength steel sheets could improve the mechanical properties of soldered joints.

Keywords: surface treatment, DP600, soldering, laser beam
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Project no. TKP2021-NVA-23 has been implemented with the support provided by the Ministry of Technology and Industry of Hungary from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, financed under the TKP2021-NVA funding scheme.
This work was supported by the Janos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ZW). Supported by the UNKP-23-5-SZE-110 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Culture and Innovation from the source of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Received: November 4, 2023; Accepted: February 7, 2024; Prepublished online: March 12, 2024; Published: April 2, 2024  Show citation

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Weltsch, Z., Tajti, F., & Berczeli, M. (2024). Development of the Bonding Technology of Modern Automotive Materials with Environmentally Friendly Solutions. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 26(2), B135-141. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2024.026
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