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Deformation behavior and mechanical properties of 5052-O aluminum alloy joints formed by high-speed clinching

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In this paper, the high-speed clinching named electromagnetic-driven clinching (EMDC) method was adopted and analyzed by experiment, numerical simulation and theoretical calculation. The deformation behavior and mechanical properties of 5052-O EMDC joints have been investigated. The result showed that the punch speed can reach 3 m/s, The maximum strain rate of the EMDC process can reach 6000 s−1. The EMDC process can be divided into deep drawing, interlocking, and unloading stages. The neck thickness tN changes mainly in deep drawing stage. The interlock value tU changes mainly in interlocking stage. The discharge voltage level can precisely control the formation of the joint. With the increase of the discharge voltage, the tN did not change significantly, while the tU increased and mechanical properties of the joint gradually improved. When the discharge voltage was 3.4 kV, the shear and tensile joint strength were 1571 N and 746 N, respectively. The simulation results and the theoretical calculations were in good agreement with the experimental results.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No: 52275394), and the Project of State Key Laboratory of High-Performance Complex Manufacturing, Central South University (ZZYJKT2020-02).

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  1. College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China

    Changqing Huang, Xiaohui Cui & Xiaoming Sun

  2. Light Alloy Research Institute, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China

    Changqing Huang, Yanan Ji, Xiaohui Cui, Shu Wang & Huan Yang

  3. State Key Laboratory of High Performance Complex Manufacturing, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China

    Xiaohui Cui

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CH: methodology, investigation, writing—original draft, YJ: simulation, experiments, writing original draft, XC: methodology, investigation, writing—review and editing, funding acquisition, XS: investigation, collected data, experiments, SW: experiments, HY: experiments.

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Huang, C., Ji, Y., Cui, X. et al. Deformation behavior and mechanical properties of 5052-O aluminum alloy joints formed by high-speed clinching. Archiv.Civ.Mech.Eng 23, 152 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43452-023-00691-x

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