Clinching as a Nonconventional Method to Join Drawing Quality Steel Sheets

The most common methods for joining the galvanized steel sheetsin automotive industry is resistance spot welding.These methods require some specific time-consuming pretreatment of joined materials and the protective layer is destroyed which lead to decreasing of corrosion resistance.Therefore, it is necessary to utilize the other joining methods. The contribution deals with analysis of properties of clinched joints. There were made samples with single press joint and various sheets orientation due to punch and die and also samples with double press joints. Deep drawing quality steels of U.S.SteelKošice, Ltd. productions of various thicknesses a quality were used. The steels are also used in automotive industry. Moreover carrying capacity of press joints was evaluated. Luboš Kašcák"Clinching as a Nonconventional Method to Join Drawing Quality Steel Sheets" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-1 , December 2017, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd8243.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/other-scientific-research-area/other/8243/clinching-as-a-nonconventional-method-to-join-drawing-quality-steel-sheets/luboš-kašcák