Self-Piercing Riveted Joints and Resistance Spot Welded Joints in Steel and Aluminium

Booth, G. S.; Charette, Olivier; Westgate, S. A.; Liebrecht, Fritz; Bräunling, Sven

doi:10.4271/2000-01-2681

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“…Booth et al [114] investigated the mechanical strength of steel (with and without zinc coating) and aluminium alloy joints joined by SPR and RSW. A low carbon steel and a high-strength steel were studied.…”

Section: Comparison Of Spr Joints With Joints From Other Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Self-piercing riveting-a review

Chrysanthou

Imran

et al. 2017

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

227

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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: Comparison Of Spr Joints With Joints From Other Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Self-piercing riveting-a review

Chrysanthou

Imran

et al. 2017

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

227

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“…All agree that the fatigue strength of SPR joints is superior to that of the spot-welded joints (Henrob Group, 2007;Mallick, 2001, 2003;Razmjoo and Westgate, 1999;Krause and Cherenkoff, 1995;Bonde and Grange-Jansson, 1996;Booth et al, 2000;Cai et al, 2005;Hahn et al, 1999;Sunday, 1983;Bonde, 1995;Litherland, 1998;Tileli et al, 1999;Li and Fatemi, 2006;Agrawal et al, 2003). Fig.…”

Section: Static and Fatigue Behaviour Of Spr Jointsmentioning

confidence: 88%

“…Booth et al (2000) reported that for steel-to-steel joints the RSW joints exhibited failure loads more than 25% higher than those for corresponding SPR joints. However, when testing aluminium-to-aluminium joints in lap shear and T peel configurations, no clear pattern was observed (Booth et al, 2000). For joints made with equal thickness substrates of 3 mm, the strength of RSW joints was 10-20% higher than that of SPR joints.…”

Section: Static and Fatigue Behaviour Of Spr Jointsmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…A number of authors have shown that the static strength of SPR joints is some degree lower than that of resistance spot-welded (RSW) joints (Bonde and Grange-Jansson, 1996;Olivier, 2000;Booth et al, 2000). Booth et al (2000) reported that for steel-to-steel joints the RSW joints exhibited failure loads more than 25% higher than those for corresponding SPR joints.…”

Section: Static and Fatigue Behaviour Of Spr Jointsmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Self-pierce riveting for sheet materials: State of the art

Pearson

Young

2008

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

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“…Currently, self-piercing riveting (SPR) is one of the major technologies used by the automotive industry to join aluminium body structures. Research in this area has shown that self-piercing riveting of aluminium alloys gives joints of comparable static strength and superior fatigue performance to spotwelding [1][2][3].…”

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Influence of Stack Orientations on the Static Strengths of SPR Joints

Li¹,

Williams²,

Han³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Advanced Material Engineering (AME 2017)

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Abstract. To improve fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, lightweight materials, such as aluminium alloys, are used increasingly in automotive manufacturing. Currently, self-piercing riveting (SPR) is a major technology used by manufacturers to join aluminium body structures due to its advantages over other joining technologies. When different materials are joined together, different stack orientations can be used. To find out the influence of stack orientations on joint strength for further structure optimization, in this paper the joint quality and the static strengths of three pairs of twothickness stacks with different orientations were studied. The results showed that by joining the thicker material as a bottom material rather than a top material, joint interlocks were improved. As to the mechanical strength, for the stacks with both top and bottom sheets as AA5754, when a thicker sheet was joined as a bottom material, the joints had stronger static strength, and for stacks with 3.0 mm AA5754 and 2.0 mm AA6008T61, when the 3.0 mm AA5754 was joined as a bottom material, the joints had stronger static lap shear strength but weaker static T peel strength.

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Self-Piercing Riveted Joints and Resistance Spot Welded Joints in Steel and Aluminium

Cited by 46 publications

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Self-piercing riveting-a review

Self-piercing riveting-a review

Self-pierce riveting for sheet materials: State of the art

Influence of Stack Orientations on the Static Strengths of SPR Joints

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