Abstract
AbstractThe application area of clinched joints is steadily increasing. They are vastly used in the automotive industry to join car body parts. Clinched components are often exposed to different environmental conditions as well as cyclic mechanical loading. Those environments are common originators of multiple corrosion and material fatigue phenomena. It is thus important to include possible environmental factors into the design of the joining process, to ensure full functionality of the clinched joint during its service life. In order to estimate material failure in such joints, several experimental and numerical tools are available. However, the literature provides little knowledge about the combined influence of corrosion and high‐cycle fatigue on the service life of clinched joints. In this work, a modeling framework is given that combines the effects of corrosion products formation on the fatigue life of clinched EN AW‐6014/HCT590X+Z joints by means of numerical simulations.
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