Fatigue Failure Modes in Self-Piercing Riveted Aluminium Alloy Joints

Volume 3 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Han ◽  
K. Young ◽  
R. Hewitt ◽  
A. Chrysanthou ◽  
J. M. O’Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Aluminium Alloy ◽  
Fatigue Failure ◽  
Failure Modes ◽  
Surface Condition ◽  
Fatigue Behaviour ◽  
Alloy Sheet ◽  
Static Tests ◽  
Failure Patterns ◽  
Interfacial Conditions ◽  
Sheet Surface

Self-piercing riveting, as an alternative joining method to spot-welding, has attracted considerable interest from the automotive industry and has been widely used in aluminium intensive vehicles. One of the important factors that need to be considered is the effect of cyclic loading in service, leading to possible fatigue failure. The previous work reported in the public domain on the behaviour of self-piercing rivets has mainly focused on static tests. The work which is reported in this paper is concerned with the fatigue behaviour of single-rivet joints, joining two 2mm 5754 aluminium alloy sheets. The investigation also examined the effect of interfacial conditions on the fatigue behaviour. A number of fatigue failure mechanisms were observed based on rivet fracture, sheet fracture and combinations of these. The investigation has shown that they were dependent on the applied load and the sheet surface condition. Three-parameter Weibull analysis, using Reliasoft Weibull ++5.0 software, was conducted to analyse the experimental results. The analysis enabled the prediction of early-type failure (infant mortality failure) and wear-out failure patterns depending on the condition of the self-piercing riveted joints and the alloy sheet surface.

scholarly journals Experimental Study on Fatigue Behaviour of BFRP-Concrete Bond Interfaces under Bending Load

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianhe Xie ◽  
Jianglin Li ◽  
Zhongyu Lu ◽  
Huan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Fatigue Failure ◽  
Failure Modes ◽  
Pure Shear ◽  
Basalt Fiber ◽  
Fatigue Behaviour ◽  
Static Fatigue ◽  
Bonded Joints ◽  
Interfacial Cracks ◽  
Bending Load

Basalt fiber reinforced polymer (BFRP) composites are increasingly being used to retrofit concrete structures by external bonding. For such strengthened members, the BFRP-concrete interface plays the crucial role of transferring stresses. This study aims to investigate the fatigue behaviour of the interface under bending load. A series of tests were conducted on BFRP-concrete bonded joint, including static, fatigue, and postfatigue loading. The fatigue failure modes, the development of deflection, the evolution of BFRP strains, and the propagation of interfacial cracks were analysed. In addition, the debonding-induced fatigue life of BFRP-concrete bonded joints was studied. Finally, a new model of fatigue life was proposed by defining the effective fatigue bond stress. The results showed that the fatigue experience has a significant effect on the BFRP strength especially near the root of concrete transverse crack and on the bond performance of the adhesive near the interface crack tip. There are two main fatigue failure modes: BFRP rupture and BFRP debonding. The fatigue damage development of the bond interface has three stages: rapid, stable, and unstable growth. The proposed model for the debonding-induced fatigue life is more conservative for the BFRP-concrete bonded joints under pure shear load than for those under bending load.

scholarly journals Mechanical clinching and self-pierce riveting for sheet combination of 780-MPa high-strength steel and aluminium alloy A5052 sheets and durability on salt spray test of joints

2021 ◽  
Vol 113 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Yohei Abe ◽  
Ken-ichiro Mori
Keyword(s):  
Aluminium Alloy ◽  
High Strength Steel ◽  
Salt Spray ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Alloy Sheet ◽  
Galvanized Steel ◽  
Load Reduction ◽  
Minimum Thickness ◽  
Steel Sheets ◽  
Mechanical Clinching

AbstractTo increase the usage of high-strength steel and aluminium alloy sheets for lightweight automobile body panels, the joinability of sheet combinations including a 780-MPa high-strength steel and an aluminium alloy A5052 sheets by mechanical clinching and self-pierce riveting was investigated for different tool shapes in an experiment. All the sheet combinations except for the two steel sheets by self-pierce riveting, i.e., the two steel sheets, the two aluminium alloy sheets, and the steel-aluminium alloy sheets, were successfully joined by both the joining methods without the gaps among the rivet and the sheets. Then, to show the durability of the joined sheets, the corrosion behaviour and the joint strength of the aged sheets by a salt spray test were measured. The corrosion and the load reduction of the clinched and the riveted two aluminium alloy sheets were little. The corrosion of the clinched two steel sheets without the galvanized layer progressed, and then the load after 1176 h decreased by 85%. In the clinched two galvanized steel sheets, the corrosion progress slowed down by 24%. In the clinched steel and aluminium alloy sheets, the thickness reduction occurred near the minimum thickness of the upper sheet and in the upper surface on the edge of the lower aluminium alloy sheet, whereas the top surface of the upper sheet and the upper surface of the lower sheet were mainly corroded in the riveted joint. The load reduction was caused by the two thickness reductions, i.e., the reduction in the minimum thickness of the upper sheet and the reduction in the flange of the aluminium alloy sheet. Although the load of the clinched steel without the galvanized coating layer and aluminium alloy sheets decreased by about 20%, the use of the galvanized steel sheet brought the decrease by about 11%. It was found that the use of the galvanized steel sheets is effective for the decrease of strength reduction due to corrosion.

scholarly journals Study on Impact Damage and Energy Dissipation of Coal Rock Exposed to High Temperatures

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tu-bing Yin ◽  
Kang Peng ◽  
Liang Wang ◽  
Pin Wang ◽  
Xu-yan Yin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Temperatures ◽  
Failure Modes ◽  
Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar ◽  
Impact Damage ◽  
Time History ◽  
Hopkinson Pressure Bar ◽  
Absorbed Energy ◽  
Failure Patterns ◽  
Temperature Conditions ◽  
Coal Rock

The dynamic failure characteristics of coal rock exposed to high temperatures were studied by using a split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) system. The relationship between energy and time history under different temperature conditions was obtained. The energy evolution and the failure modes of specimens were analyzed. Results are as follows: during the test, more than 60% of the incident energy was not involved in the breaking of the sample, while it was reflected back. With the increase of temperature, the reflected energy increased continuously; transmitted and absorbed energy showed an opposite variation. At the temperature of 25 to 100°C, the absorbed energy was less than that transmitted, while this phenomenon was opposite after 100°C. The values of specific energy absorption (SEA) were distributed at 0.04 to 0.1 J·cm−3, and its evolution with temperature could be divided into four different stages. Under different temperature conditions, the failure modes and the broken blocks of the samples were obviously different, combining with the variation of microstructure characteristics of coal at high temperatures; the physical mechanism of damage and failure patterns of coal rock are explained from the viewpoint of energy.

Study on the Formability of Aluminium Alloy Sheets at Room and Elevated Temperatures

2016 ◽  
Vol 877 ◽  
pp. 393-399
Author(s):  
Jia Zhou ◽  
Jun Ping Zhang ◽  
Ming Tu Ma
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Aluminum Alloy ◽  
Elevated Temperature ◽  
Aluminium Alloy ◽  
Aluminium Alloys ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Hot Stamping ◽  
Natural Aging ◽  
Alloy Sheet ◽  
Aluminum Alloy Sheet

This paper presents the main achievements of a research project aimed at investigating the applicability of the hot stamping technology to non heat treatable aluminium alloys of the 5052 H32 and heat treatable aluminium alloys of the 6016 T4P after six months natural aging. The formability and mechanical properties of 5052 H32 and 6016 T4P aluminum alloy sheets after six months natural aging under different temperature conditions were studied, the processing characteristics and potential of the two aluminium alloy at room and elevated temperature were investigated. The results indicated that the 6016 aluminum alloy sheet exhibit better mechanical properties at room temperature. 5052 H32 aluminum alloy sheet shows better formability at elevated temperature, and it has higher potential to increase formability by raising the temperature.

Energy Storing and Positional Tendon Fascicles Exhibit Different Fatigue Behaviour

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Shepherd ◽  
K. Legerlotz ◽  
T. Demirci ◽  
C. Klemt ◽  
G. P. Riley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Failure ◽  
Potential Benefit ◽  
Fatigue Behaviour ◽  
Repeated Loading

Overuse tendinopathies are often considered to be the result of repeated microstrain below the failure threshold, analogous to the fatigue failure of materials under repeated loading [1, 2]. Investigation of tendon overuse in vitro is thus of potential benefit towards characterizing the progression of damage.

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