Flow drill screw (FDS) technique combines the friction drilling and thread forming processes
into one single operation, and has been widely adopted in the automotive industry. Because …

The crashworthy design, verification, and certification of civil aircraft fuselage structures are
extremely important for the aviation safety and the survivability of crew and passengers in a …

Failure modes and their corresponding tension strengths of thread-fixed one-side bolted T-
stub were investigated experimentally and theoretically. The thread resistances of bolts fixed …

Test results on the Thread-fixed One-side Bolted Connection (TOBC) of a beam to a Hollow
Square Steel Tube (HSST) under static bending moment were presented and corresponding …

Experimental studies were conducted to investigate the seismic behavior of the Thread-fixed
One-side Bolts bolted Endplate Connection (TOBEC) of a steel beam to a Hollow Square …

This research work investigated in detail the mechanical performance of a flow-drill screw
connection of two aluminium plates with and without pilot holes. An extensive experimental …

Blind-bolts offer a feasible way for connecting a steel member with closed-hollow section to
a member with open-section. However, the relatively higher cost of the available blind-bolts …

The behaviour of a flow-drill screw connection under different quasi-static loadings was
simulated using finite element models with detailed solid element meshes. The numerical …

A new component test suited for quasi-static and dynamic testing of flow-drill screw
connections is presented. The component specimen was made of two different aluminium …

This paper presents an artificial neural network (NN) modelling approach to represent a
connector model in large-scale finite element explicit crash simulations. The NN model was …