Structural behaviour of aluminium self-piercing riveted joints: An experimental and numerical investigation

The present paper deals with the structural behaviour of self-piercing riveted joints based on aluminium and steel rivets. Two T-components made of two open aluminium profiles in alloy AA6063 temper T4 joined by 6 and 12 rivets, respectively, were designed and tested under quasi-static loading condi...

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Published in:International journal of solids and structures Vol. 49; no. 23-24; pp. 3211 - 3223
Main Authors: Hoang, N.-H., Hanssen, A.-G., Langseth, M., Porcaro, R.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 15.11.2012
Subjects:
AA6063
AA7278
Aluminium
Aluminium self-piercing rivet
Aluminum
Aluminum base alloys
Failure modes
Large-scale analysis
Modelling
Point-connector model
Riveted joints
Riveting
Rivets
Shells
Structural behaviour
Structural steels
Testing
Aluminium self-piercing rivet
Point-connector model
Large-scale analysis
AA7278
Modelling
Structural behaviour
Testing
AA6063
ISSN:0020-7683, 1879-2146
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Summary:The present paper deals with the structural behaviour of self-piercing riveted joints based on aluminium and steel rivets. Two T-components made of two open aluminium profiles in alloy AA6063 temper T4 joined by 6 and 12 rivets, respectively, were designed and tested under quasi-static loading conditions. A new test device was designed to perform the tests of the T-components under two different load cases. Experimental results of the T-components joined by using aluminium self-piercing rivets were then compared with the corresponding components joined by using steel rivets in terms of force-displacement curves, deformation modes of the components as well as rivet failure modes. Further, the experimental results of the T-components based on aluminium rivets were used to validate a resultant-based point-connector model for self-piercing rivets proposed by Hanssen et al. (2010) using shell elements.
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ISSN:0020-7683
1879-2146
DOI:10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2012.05.039