Fatigue behaviour of tensile-shear loaded clinched joints

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 178-190

  Carboni, Michele ^a   Beretta, S ^a   Monno, M ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clinching; Joining strength; Mechanical joining; Sheet metal

Indexed keywords

COLD WELDING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE TESTING; FRACTOGRAPHY; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHEAR STRENGTH; SHEET METAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE TESTING;

CLINCHING; JOINING STRENGTH; MECHANICAL JOINING;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 27644534612     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2005.04.004     Document Type: Article

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