Clinching technology has been widely applied in automobile assembly industries to join
sheet materials of different thicknesses and properties. It does not require any auxiliary parts …

Latest developments in the clinching of sheet materials are reviewed in this article. Important
issues are discussed, such as tool design, process parameters and joinability of some new …

In recent years, lightweight materials with high mechanical property and low density have
been more and more widely used in aerospace, automotive and other industries. The …

Clinching, which is a green joining process, has been widely used in the manufacturing
industry as a method of joining lightweight sheets for automotive. The clinched joint is …

Clinch-bonded hybrid joining technology has been applied increasingly in different
manufacturing disciplines. In this study, specimens of both similar and dissimilar sheets of …

The clinched joint may be deformed or damaged under a high shear load on the thin-walled
structure, which may cause an accident. In order to avoid the accident, a renovating process …

Mechanical clinching technology, with the ability to join dissimilar, coated, and hard-to-weld
materials, has been widely adopted in the automotive field. The finite element method has …

For building light-weight car body, clinching technology is widely used to join aluminum
alloy on light-weight car. However, the joining strength of clinched joint is lower than welded …

Clinching technology is a mechanical connection technology that is applied to connect metal
or non-metal sheet materials. It is widely used in different applications, such as automobile …

Aluminum alloy sheets have been widely used to build the thin-walled structures by
mechanical clinching technology in recent years. However, there is an exterior protrusion …