In recent years, the transportation industry has faced the challenge of cutting costs, meeting
increasingly stringent environmental regulations, and significantly increasing transportation …

The substitution of traditional materials with lightweight materials in vehicle structures
requires the development of new joining techniques which are capable of joining un …

The deformation of and damage to carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) in warm self-
piercing riveted (WSPR) joints with CFRP and AA5754 aluminum alloy are investigated …

The purpose of the present study was to identify microstructural changes at both Mg/Zn and
Al/Zn interfaces of ultrasonic spot welded joints between a rare-earth containing ZEK100 …

To promote the application of the three-layer steel/aluminum hybrid sheet in the lightweight
vehicle body, the multi-layer hole-drilled self-piercing riveting (MH-SPR) process is …

Automotive light-weighting has become an important direction for the development of the
automotive industry, and the light-weighting materials are inevitable to be joined. Self …

As one of the advanced and efficient means of joining, the clinching process is capable of
joining sheets with different materials or different sheet thicknesses. In this article, a novel …

Ultra-high-strength steels like 22MnB5 have now become established in car bodies. As the
thickness of parts in 22MnB5 has steadily increased over the past few years due to growing …

Box-Behnken design (BBD) response surface test was carried out to investigate the
parameters of AL1420, AA5052 and AA5182 Al alloy self-piercing riveting. The sheet …

The application of steel/die-casting aluminum alloy is an inevitable trend in the development
of automotive lightweight technology. The joining process of self-piercing riveting (SPR) is …