Self-piercing riveting of similar and dissimilar titanium sheet materials

He, Xiaocong; Wang, Yifeng; Lu, Yi; Zeng, Kai; Gu, Fengshou; Ball, Andrew

doi:10.1007/s00170-015-7174-3

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“…Titanium alloys have limited formability at room temperature. However, when they were heated to above 700°C, they could also be successfully joined by SPR [77,78].…”

Section: Suitable Materials For Spr Joiningmentioning

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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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“…Titanium alloys have limited formability at room temperature. However, when they were heated to above 700°C, they could also be successfully joined by SPR [77,78].…”

Section: Suitable Materials For Spr Joiningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Self-piercing riveting-a review

Chrysanthou

Imran

et al. 2017

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

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“…SPR joints between titanium alloy sheets and other lightweight alloys have also been extensively used in industrial fields. In the previous paper by He et al [29], the static strength of SPR joints in similar and dissimilar TA1 titanium alloy (TA1) sheets was studied. This work was conducted to study the effects of heat treatment on fatigue performances of SPR joints in TA1, aluminium alloy (Al5052) and copper alloy (H62).…”

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Influence of heat treatment on fatigue performances for self-piercing riveting similar and dissimilar titanium, aluminium and copper alloys

Zhang

Xing

et al. 2016

Materials & Design

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The fatigue performances of self-piercing riveting (SPR) joints connecting similar and dissimilar sheets of TA1 titanium alloy (TA1), Al5052 aluminium alloy (Al5052) and H62 copper alloy (H62) were studied in this paper. The specimens of similar TA1 sheets treated with stress relief annealing were prepared to investigate the influence of relief annealing on the mechanical properties of SPR joints. Fatigue tests were conducted to characterize the fatigue lives and failure modes of the joints. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was employed to determine the fatigue failure mechanisms of the joints. The results showed that stress relief annealing has an apparent impact on the fatigue performances but has little influence on the static strengths of the joints. For SPR joints in similar or dissimilar sheets, joints between similar TA1 sheets possess the best fatigue resistance, which are significantly higher than the joints in dissimilar sheets. And most of the joints failed in the rivet and the locked sheet through fatigue tests, except the joints between TA1 and Al5052, which failed only in the locked sheets.

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“…1 7) . The SPR technique can be used for connecting dissimilar sheets, non-metal, and hard welding sheets 8,9) .…”

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Self-Piercing Riveting of Metal Foam Sandwich Structures

Liu

Deng

2017

Mater. Trans.

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Metal foam sandwich structures are widely used in construction and transportation elds because of their good acoustic performance, high thermal stability, lightweight, and high stiffness. This paper deals with join-ability of self-piercing riveted metal foam sandwich structures. Self-piercing riveting tests were performed on AA5052 aluminium alloy sandwich structures embedded with different metal foams. Tensile-shear tests were conducted to characterize the mechanical properties of different self-piercing riveted metal foam sandwich structures. The results illustrate that the connection of metal foam sandwich structures can be effectively realised with the self-piercing riveting technique. The joints exhibit good forming quality and mechanical performance. For metal foam sandwich joints, the sandwich structures embedded with nickel foam exhibits the best mechanical properties. The failure modes of the self-piercing riveted sandwich structures were observed at the separation of the lower sheets and rivet.

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Self-piercing riveting of similar and dissimilar titanium sheet materials

Cited by 49 publications

References 25 publications

Self-piercing riveting-a review

Self-piercing riveting-a review

Influence of heat treatment on fatigue performances for self-piercing riveting similar and dissimilar titanium, aluminium and copper alloys

Self-Piercing Riveting of Metal Foam Sandwich Structures

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