https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201818304010
Connections between steel and aluminium using adhesive bonding combined with self-piercing riveting
1
BMW Group,
Knorrstrasse 147,
80937
Munich,
Germany
2
Centre for Advanced Structural Analysis (CASA), NTNU,
NO-7491
Trondheim,
Norway
3
Structural Impact Laboratory (SIMLab), Department of Structural Engineering, NTNU,
NO-7491
Trondheim,
Norway
* e-mail: matthias.re.reil@bmw.de
Published online: 7 September 2018
The multi-material design of modern car bodies requires joining technologies for dissimilar materials. Adhesive bonding in combination with self-piercing riveting is widely used for joining steel and aluminium structures. To guarantee crashworthiness and reliability of a car body, accurate and effcient numerical models of its materials and connections are required. Suitable component test setups are necessary for development and validation of such models. In this work, a novel test setup for adhesively bonded and point-wise connected components is presented. Here, load combinations comparable to a vehicle crash are introduced into the connections. The developed setup facilitates successive failure of multiple connections and enables a broad validation of numerical connection models.
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