Fatigue fracture behaviour of spot welded B1500HS steel under tensile-shear load

The microstructural characterizations, micro‐hardness measurements and fatigue tests of B1500HS steel spot welded tensile‐shear specimens were performed. The high hardness values of base material (470 HV) and nugget (515 HV) are closely related to the dominant formation of martensitic microstructures, while the occurrence of soft zone is the result of the formation of ferrite phases in inter‐critical heat‐affected zone (HAZ), as well as...