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

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

Form and friction drilling techniques are now promising alternatives in light and medium
boilermaking that will very probably supersede conventional drilling techniques, as rapid …

In this article, a new method for the rapid and economical production of 'nutless' bolted joins
is presented, using a combination of two hole-making techniques, namely, form drilling and …

In the recent decade, thermal drilling is becoming popular in aerospace and automobile
industries because of its unique advantages over conventional twist drilling process. Surface …

Friction drilling utilizes the heat generated from the friction between the tool and the thin
workpiece to form a bush for fixtures such as screw threads in plastic deformation process …

Friction drilling uses a rotating conical tool to penetrate the workpiece and create a bushing
in a single step without generating chips. This research investigates the three-dimensional …

This study investigates the tool wear in friction drilling, a nontraditional hole-making process.
In friction drilling, a rotating conical tool uses the heat generated by friction to soften and …

A no-chip drilling process was formed by thermal friction principle in which it had the most
important features such as no pollution, short machining time, and long tool life. After the …

Thermal drilling is a sheet metal hole making technique and which is the most cost-effective
and extremely high productivity technique in sheet metal fastenings. Especially, the …