The mathematical statement of the problem of recognizing rivet joint defects in aircraft products is given. A computational method for the recognition of rivet joint defects in aircraft equipment based on video images of aircraft joints has been prop...
This paper concerns the influence of the material modeling method on the results of strength analyses. The research object was a single lap joint with a blind rivet (ISO 12996). The results of numerical strength analysis for various configurations of...
Riveting is the most commonly used connection method in aircraft assembly, and its quality has a crucial effect on the fatigue performance of aircraft. Many factors affect the riveting quality, among which the influence of the riveting angle and dire...
The aim of this study is to develop a methodology for static strength and failure mode simulation of hot-driven riveted joints. The purpose is to be able to accurately estimate a rivet joint’s static strength behaviour and its failure mode with...
Riveting is widely used in aircraft manufacturing. The strap butt joint is often used in the aircraft’s main bearing area such as the aircraft docking area. The connection quality affects the reliability and safety of the aircraft directly. To study...
Interference-fit riveting is one of the most widely used mechanical joining ways in aircraft assembly. The fatigue performance of riveted joints has a significant impact on the service life and reliability of aircraft. In this paper, the fatigue perf...
In a previous work, the fatigue behaviour of different hot riveted joints under fatigue loadings were experimentally calculated. In particular, the experimental data showed a Wöhler curve slope close to five against the slope of three proposed b...
This study explores the tensile performance of blind rivet joints in galvanized steel sheets, focusing on their behavior under shear and normal load conditions. Blind rivets are frequently used in structural applications due to their ease of installa...
In aircraft manufacturing, riveting is one of the most important connection ways to fasten the sheet metal parts. The riveted single strap butt joints are mainly used in the load-bearing components of the aircraft such as the fuselage and wing panels...
The present work deals with the transferability of Friction Riveting joining technology from laboratory equipment to adapted in-house, low-cost machinery. A G13 drilling machine was modified for the requirements of the selected joining technique, and...
Some controllable process parameters in the riveting process such as the gap between sheets, have an important impact on the quality of a riveted butt joint. In this paper, the finite element model of a riveted single-strap butt joint is established...
In this study, experimental and numerical investigations were carried out to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the impact of surface conditions on self-piercing riveting (SPR) joint quality. Oil lubrication and sandpaper grinding were employed...
This work aims at investigating the influence of pre-set clamping pressure on the joint formation and mechanical strength of overlapping direct-friction-riveted joints. A pneumatic fixture device was developed for this work, with clamping pressure va...
Double-sided self-pierce riveting (DSSPR) can be utilized as an alternative to self-pierce riveting (SPR) to produce butt joints through half-lap joints in dissimilar materials. The mechanical joining process makes use of tubular rivets with simple g...
Many previous studies have mainly focused on the effects of riveting parameters on single-row riveted lap joints. Little attention has been paid to multi-row riveted lap joints. The outer rows of a normal multi-row riveted lap joint usually bear a la...
In this study, the self-piercing rivet (SPR) joining of vibration-damping steel and aluminum alloy (Al5052-H32) is successfully carried out, for the first time to our knowledge, and the effects of die type and joint configuration on the mechanical pe...
To address the impact of rivet arrangement on the strengths of riveted lap joints, the failure modes and failure mechanisms of riveted lap joints were first studied using finite element analysis software. Next, the effects of the number of rivets, ri...
The background of this work is the search for the most effective ways of joining composites, inter alia in aeronautical applications. The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of mechanical fastener types on the static strength of lap joint...
Self-piercing riveting (SPR) has become a highly promising new method for connecting dissimilar materials in multi-material vehicle bodies, while the joint’s forming quality which largely affects its connection performance lacks sufficient rese...
In this paper, we discuss the application of a simple Battelle structural stress model to evaluate the fatigue life of a self-piercing riveted (SPR) carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite to aluminum AA6111. The analytical model accounts fo...
Clinching joints with an additional deformable rivet are modifications of the clinching joints. The clinch riveting (CR) joint is formed indirectly by a deformable rivet. The research included an analysis of CR joints’ forming process for aluminum al...
The behavior of joints and fasteners in fiber-epoxy composites has been researched for several decades, and many studies have demonstrated their performance in tension testing. These studies have focused nearly exclusively on synthetic fibers, such a...
This research deals with the fatigue behavior of 200 small single lap multiple-riveted joint specimens, widely used for aeronautic structures. The tests were performed with three different levels of stress with stress ratio R = 0.05; three levels wer...
Countersunk head riveted joints (CHRJs) are essential for the aerospace and marine industries. Due to the stress concentration, defects may be generated near the lower boundary of the countersunk head parts of CHRJs and require testing. In this paper...
During the design of automotive structures assembled using Self-Piercing Rivets (SPRs), a rivet and die combination is selected for each joint stack. To conduct extensive physical tensile testing on every joint combination to determine the range of s...
This paper presents the possibility of forming a pressed joint between two 1.5 mm thick sheets made of HX340 steel. The joint was formed using an additional deformable steel rivet with a hardness of 400HV1. Different distances of rivet pressing below...
Self-pierce riveting of three thin sheets of 980 MPa steel and 5052 aluminum alloy was performed to investigate the effect of sheet configuration on the deforming behaviors of the sheets and the rivet and joint strength. When the lower sheet was alum...
Unique friction-based self-piercing riveting (F-SPR) was employed to join high-strength, low-ductility aluminum alloy 7055 for lightweight vehicle applications. This study aimed to maximize the joint strength of the AA7055 F-SPR joint while avoiding...
In this study, a numerical prediction methodology used to evaluate the fatigue life of complex riveted aluminum alloy structures subjected to variable amplitude loads is presented. This methodology is based on the combination of experimental fatigue...
A vibration-damping steel panel is used for lightweight vehicles to block any noise subjected to the passenger cabin replacing heavy fiber-based insulators. Conventional weld joining methods often encounter problems due to the presence of viscoelasti...
Double-sided self-pierce riveting (DSSPR) has been presenting itself as a proper alternative to self-pierce riveting (SPR) with many advantages for joining geometries of different thicknesses and cross-sections. To ensure its successful future indust...
Friction riveting represents a promising technology for joining similar and/or dissimilar materials of light-weight components. However, the main drawback of the technology is that it is primarily used only with special machines for friction welding...
In the current work, process-related thermo-mechanical changes in the rivet microstructure, joint local and global mechanical properties, and their correlation with the rivet plastic deformation regime were investigated for Ti-6Al-4V (rivet) and glas...
Orbital riveting is an innovative joining technology used in various industrial fields. Despite its diffusion in recent years, it has not been accompanied by an equivalent interest from the scientific community, which has neglected the aspects of pro...
Self-piercing riveting (SPR) is a suitable technology to join various materials and has attracted more attention in the automotive industry. In this work, the effects of forming parameters on the forming qualities and mechanical properties of B1500HS...
This research aimed to determine riveted carbon/epoxy composites’ mechanical performance when fabricated by resin transfer molding (RTM). As this manufacturing process is gaining importance in the aeronautics and automotive industries, assembly metho...
Self-piercing riveting (SPR) as a solid-state joining technology has recently found extensive applications in the automotive industry, mostly in the joining of car body aluminium sheets. To achieve an acceptable joint, key operation and tooling param...
With the development of new energy vehicles, the joining of lightweight alloys has received more attention. Self-piercing riveting experiments of aluminum alloy and high-strength steel sheets were performed to analyze the effects of rivet height and...
The inspection of fasteners in aluminium joints in the aviation industry is a time consuming and costly but mandatory task. Until today, the manual procedure with the bare eye does not allow the temporal tracking of a damaging behavior or the objecti...
This work presents a systematic study on the correlations between process parameters and rivet plastic deformation, produced by force-controlled friction riveting. The 5 mm diameter AA2024 rivets were joined to 13 mm, nominal thickness, polyetherimid...
A simplified finite element model of riveted joints for structural analyses which effectively incorporates nonlinear response of riveted joints is proposed. Load-transfer characteristics of riveted joints were experimentally and numerically studied....
Self-piercing riveted (SPR) joints in automobiles inevitably suffer from corrosion damage and performance reduction. In this work, the influence of salt spray corrosion on the mechanical properties of TA1-Al5052 alloy SPR joints was studied. The TA1-...
In an innovative vision of manufacturing, orbital riveting is a joining technique characterized by high efficiency, energy saving, low costs and low noise. It is a cold forming process where a tool rotates at a fixed angle (i.e., typically 3° to...
In this work, experimental and numerical analyses of repairs on carbon fiber reinforced epoxy (CFRE) substrates, with CFRE and aluminum alloy doublers typical of aircraft structures, are presented. The substrates have a bridge gap of 12.7 mm (simulat...
Stress and strain distributions in the adhesively bonded joints subjected to distributed forces are investigated using finite element method. The bonded materials reinforced with rivets are the same. The investigations are conducted on a three dimens...
This study investigates the quality of self-piercing riveted joints between vibration-damping aluminum (Al) and other dissimilar materials, namely aluminum alloy (AL5052-H32), steel alloy (GA590DP), and carbon-reinforced plastic (CFRP). The effects o...
To investigate the low-speed impact response of the BR1200HS steel and AA6082 aluminum alloy self-piercing riveted (SPR) joint, low-speed impact tests with impact energies of 2.5 J, 5.0 J, 7.5 J, 10.0 J, 12.5 J, 15.0 J, 20.0 J, and 30.0 J were conduc...
The present work investigates the correlation between energy efficiency and global mechanical performance of hybrid aluminum alloy AA2024 (polyetherimide joints), produced by force-controlled friction riveting. The combinations of parameters followed...
Unlike previous studies focusing on two-layer structures or single-parameter effects, this work systematically investigates the influence of sheet layer combination modes on the mechanical properties of three-layer AA6063-T6 self-piercing riveting (S...
As fiber reinforced plastic composites gain an increasingly larger share in aerospace structures, the problem of joining them with metal elements becomes significant. The current paper is the second part of the literature review, which gathers and ev...
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