The development of new adhesives has allowed to expand the application of bonding into
the most diverse industrial fields. This review article presents the commonly used …

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 …

One thin 5000 series aluminium alloy sheet and two thin 980 MPa grade cold rolled ultra-
high strength steel sheets were joined by self-pierce riveting and mechanical clinching …

Mechanical clinching is a commonly used method for joining dissimilar materials in the
automotive industry. The clinch-bonding process was developed based on the clinching …

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 …

The clinch–adhesive process, which combines mechanical clinching and adhesive bonding,
is one of the most applied processes for joining aluminum alloy and steel in the …

The load-bearing capacity of hybrid riv-bonded aluminum-magnesium lap joints under shear-
tensile loading was studied with particular focus on their static strength and fatigue …

In order to exploit the advantages offered by multi-material design, this work studies the
feasibility of joining aluminum alloys with high-strength steels (HSS) against the favorable …

The load-bearing capacities of (i) self-piercing-riveted,(ii) adhesive-bonded and (iii) hybrid
riv-bonded lap joints of commercial 1.5-mm-thick EN AW-6016-T4 sheets were compared …

Reliable simulation of hybrid joining processes using conventional finite element (FE) tools
is challenging, because the liquid adhesive must be somehow included in the model. Thus …