Mechanical joining technologies are increasingly used in multi-material lightweight
constructions and offer opportunities to create versatile joining processes due to their low …

Emerging trends in manufacturing such as light weighting, increased performance and
functionality increases the use of multi-material, hybrid structures and thus the need for …

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 …

Driven by increasing costs for energy and raw material and especially by the European CO
2-emission laws, automotive industry faces the challenge to develop more lightweight and at …

As the scale and complexity of products such as aircraft and cars increase, demand for new
functional processes to join mechanical parts grows. The use of plastic deformation for …

Mechanical joining processes by plastic deformation such as self-piercing riveting,
mechanical clinching and hemming for aluminium alloy and high strength steel sheets are …

Self-piercing riveting (SPR) is a method used for joining sheet materials by creating a
mechanical interlock between the sheets. SPR is of increasing interest in automobile …

High strength steel and aluminium alloy sheets were joined by mechanical clinching with
dies for control of metal flow. Since the sheets undergo plastic deformation for the joining …

Self-piercing riveting (SPR) is a cold forming technique used to fasten together two or more
sheets of materials with a rivet without the need to predrill a hole. The application of SPR in …

High tensile strength steel sheets having different strengths were joined with an aluminium
alloy sheet by a self-piercing rivet. In the joining, a conventional rivet and die used for …