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Effects of friction factor on mechanical performance of the AA5182 clinched joint

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In the current study, a mechanical clinching process using the extensible die was implemented to join the AA5182 aluminum alloy sheets with different friction factors. In the proposed process, the AA5182 sheets with friction factors of 0.34, 0.41, 0.46, and 0.53 were employed as the material to be joined. The friction factor between two sheets had a significant effect on the material flow during the mechanical clinching process. A larger embedding value can be obtained by increasing the friction factor between the sheets, but the neck thickness decreased with the increment of the friction factor. The energy absorption and the maximum static loading force of dissimilar clinched joints were measured in the cross-lap-tensile and single-lap-shear tests. It was discovered that the friction factor between the sheets would not change the failure mode of the clinched joints in failure process. Increasing the sheet friction factor was not conducive to improving the joint strength during the single-lap-shear test. When the friction factor increased from 0.34 to 0.53, the shear strength decreased from 2439.57 to 2079.04 N, a decrease of 14.78%. The friction factor had little effect on the tensile strength of the clinched joint, and the static tensile strength of dissimilar clinched joints with different friction factors varied in the range of 2.47%, which varied from 1602.96 to 1642.53 N.

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This research work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51805416); Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST (Grant No. 2019QNRC001), Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (Grant No. 2020JJ5716); the Project of State Key Laboratory of High Performance Complex Manufacturing, Central South University (Grant No. ZZYJKT2019-01); Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Excellent Young Scholars (Grant No. 2021JJ20059); and Huxiang High-Level Talent Gathering Project of HUNAN Province (Grant No. 2019RS1002).

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    Xiaoqiang Ren, Chao Chen, Xiangkun Ran & Xingang Zhang

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Ren, X., Chen, C., Ran, X. et al. Effects of friction factor on mechanical performance of the AA5182 clinched joint. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 120, 1831–1841 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-022-08788-y

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