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The resistance spot welding of two 1.55 mm thick metal sheets is performed using welding current of 10000 A for 0.25 s. The contact resistance at the interface of the metal sheets is 0.0001 Ω. The volume of weld nugget formed after welding is 70 mm

. Considering the heat required to melt unit volume of metal is 12 J/mm

, the thermal efficiency of the welding process is ______ % (round off to one decimal place).

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GATE ME 2021 · Paper 1

Mechanical Engineering · Original paper archive

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Mechanical Engineering
Question type
Numerical answer (NAT)
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2 marks

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