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EWI is pleased to welcome Pentaflex back to EWI membership! Headquartered in Springfield, Ohio, Pentaflex is a contract manufacturer of metal stampings and assemblies specializing in heavy-gauge and highly formed components. The company – which also offers value-added services such as welding, machining, parts washing, and the assembly of purchased components – supplies the commercial...

While spot weld performance has become easy to simulate in recent years, failure models for arc-welded sheet steel have never proved very reliable. Recently, EWI developed and tested a new approach to modeling failure of arc welds used in sheet-steel construction. The work is described in a paper by EWI associates Bill Mohr and Amin...

A standard electric vehicle (EV) automotive battery can be decomposed into cell level, module level, and pack level. A cell mainly includes the anodes and cathodes, a module includes multiple cells, and a pack includes multiple modules. The three most common metal-to-metal joints in a lithium-ion battery pack are foil-to-tab, tab-to-tab, and tab-to-bus. All three...