Joining of lightweight sandwich sheets to aluminium using self-pierce riveting

Pickin, C. G.; Young, Ken; Tuersley, Ian

doi:10.1016/j.matdes.2006.08.003

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“…Pickin et al [79] demonstrated that it was possible to join a sandwich material (0.2 mm steel + 1.6 mm polymer + 0.2 mm steel) to a 2-mm-thick aluminium alloy by SPR. Unpublished results from the University of Warwick also showed that it was possible to join steel/polymer sandwich materials to achieve a high joint strength.…”

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confidence: 99%

Self-piercing riveting-a review

Chrysanthou

Imran

et al. 2017

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

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Self-piercing riveting (SPR) is a cold mechanical joining process used to join two or more sheets of materials by driving a rivet piercing through the top sheet or the top and middle sheets and subsequently lock into the bottom sheet under the guidance of a suitable die. SPR is currently the main joining method for aluminium and mixed-material lightweight automotive structures. SPR was originated half century ago, but it only had significant progress in the last 25 years due to the requirement of joining lightweight materials, such as aluminium alloy structures, aluminium-steel structures and other mixed-material structures, from the automotive industry. Compared with other conventional joining methods, SPR has many advantages including no pre-drilled holes required, no fume, no spark and low noise, no surface treatment required, ability to join multi-layer materials and mixed materials and ability to produce joints with high static and fatigue strengths. In this paper, research investigations that have been conducted on self-piercing riveting will be extensively reviewed. The current state and development of SPR process is reviewed and the influence of the key process parameters on joint quality is discussed. The mechanical properties of SPR joints, the corrosion behaviour of SPR joints, the distortion of SPR joints and the simulation of SPR process and joint performance are reviewed. Developing reliable simulation methods for SPR process and joint performance to reduce the need of physical testing has been identified as one of the main challenges.

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Section: Suitable Materials For Spr Joiningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Self-piercing riveting-a review

Chrysanthou

Imran

et al. 2017

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

214

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“…7, is given by the compression and folding of the composite material at the back of the rivet. The insurgence of the bearing failure mechanism depends on the ratio between the rivet diameter and the specimen's width [10][11][12]; in the case of the composite materials, the insurgence of such failure mechanism cannot be predicted on the basis of heuristics rules and depends also on the fibers orientation of the laminate material. Finally fatigue tests were carried out on a series of joints obtained with an oil pressure equal to 300MPa, i.e.…”

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“…First of all, since it is very difficult to predict the strength of a self-piercing riveted connection without experimental tests and since there is a lack of analytical description of be a solution to overcome these problems. Finally, it should be observed that just rare investigations are found out regarding the possibility to use self-pierce riveting to develop hybrid joints with metal and composite materials, highlighting the relevant lack of knowledge in this specific field [11][12]. In the present paper the possibility to join aluminium alloys blanks and carbon fibre composites panels by selfpiercing riveting operation is considered.…”

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On the self-piercing riveting of aluminium blanks and carbon fibre composite panels

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In the present paper the possibility to join aluminium alloys blanks and carbon fibre composites panels by self-piercing riveting operation is considered. In particular a few case studies were carried out at the varying of the process parameters. The effectiveness of the obtained joints was tested through tensile tests and through fatigue ones; what is more the process mechanics was highlighted through proper macro and micro observations of the transverse sections of the joints. Finally, the failure mechanics of the obtained joints were considered in order to highlight the mechanisms which occur and determine the lost of the load carrying capability of the joints. The developed experiments demonstrated that self-piercing riveting can be effectively used to join carbon fibre composite panels and aluminum blanks.

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“…distance between bolts in a row) [39]. Because of the large variety of mechanical joining processes, different mechanical connections can be coupled with adhesive bonding, including: bolted [37][38][39], riveted [40,41], laser riveting, electron-beam formed protrusions [42] and self-pierce rivets [22,43].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%