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Resistance spot welding of advanced high strength steels
Chabok, Ali
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Chabok, A. (2019). Resistance spot welding of advanced high strength steels: Mechanical properties and failure mechanisms. University of Groningen.
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Propositions
Accompanying the PhD thesis entitled
Resistance Spot Welding
of
Advanced High Strength Steels
By
Ali Chabok
1. A life without ambition is like a car without proper spot welds: you’re not going anywhere.
2. To apply double pulse welding or not? That is the real question in practice (Chapter 4).
3. Micro-scale mechanical testing allows targeting specific regions of interest to evaluate the mechanical response of different weld zones produced under different welding conditions (Chapters 5-7).
4. Not a singular factor but multiple factors including heat affected zone softening, residual stress, grain orientation and texture determine the mechanical performance of a resistance spot weld.
5. In today’s western world success in modern life is defined by your material belongings and assets.
6. The person who is studying atomic patterns in materials, in fact himself is made up of a much bigger and more sophisticated groups of atoms.
7. A considerable portion of a PhD career is spent getting unexpected and negative results. It contributes to mental resilience.
8. Failure is a key subject in engineering materials. A successful welder is the one who understands how the joint fails, rather than how it is made.
9. Outside your supervisors and academic fellows, nobody cares about the ideas and theories that you’ve worked and written about during four years of PhD.
