Aluminium castings have been widely used in many industries, including automotive,
aerospace, telecommunication, construction, consumer products, etc., due to their …

Vehicle weight reduction has been discussed by automotive industry for decades. The
current solution for weight reduction purpose is the use of aluminum stam** and casting …

Implementing the concept of mixed construction in modern automotive engineering requires
the joining of sheet metal or extruded profiles with cast components made from different …

In this paper, the high-speed clinching named electromagnetic-driven clinching (EMDC)
method was adopted and analyzed by experiment, numerical simulation and theoretical …

The self-piercing riveting is a major mechanical joining technique to join dissimilar
lightweight materials, which has been widely used in the automotive industry. However, the …

The instability (in processing time) in the flow-drill screwing process is undesired but
inescapable due to variations in material property, gauge, and process parameters. A …

This industrial research focuses on the implementation and development of a productive
process for an automotive structural component (Shock tower) manufactured by a high …

As automotive companies increasingly incorporate lightweight materials into the new
vehicles to improve fuel economy, development of joining technologies for different material …

Padded self-piercing riveting (P-SPR) is a newly developed multi-material joining
technology to enable less ductile materials to be joined by self-piercing riveting (SPR) …

Nemalloy HE700 (high elongation) automotive Al alloy, a newly developed Al–Fe
hypoeutectic-based alloy for high-vacuum high-pressure die casting, provides higher …