Abstract: Self-piercing riveting has been widely used in vehicle body manufacturing to join aluminum alloys or aluminum to steel. However, it is difficult to rivet ultrahigh strength steel (UHSS) because of its resistance to piercing ...

Abstract: Resistance spot welding (RSW) of aluminum–aluminum (Al–Al) is known to be very challenging, with the asymmetric growth of the weld nugget often observed. In this article, a semicoupled electrical–thermal–mechanical finite ...

Abstract: Resistance spot welding of aluminum alloys (Al RSW) is known to be very challenging, in part due to the undesirable and hard-to-predict asymmetric growth of the weld nugget. In this paper, two 1.2 mm thick AA6022-T4 aluminum ...