Failure Analysis of Self-Piercing Riveted Joint: using LS-DYNA

Self-Piercing riveting process is a new technology for joining sheet metals in automobile and aircraft industries. This process has many advantages over conventional joining processes. In this thesis, failure of a self-piercing riveted joint is investigated. Failure of three different riveted configurations under 35m/s and 60m/s velocities were predicted using the general purpose non-linear finite element software LS-DYNA. Detailed discussion about methods of simulation and spring-back analysis have been written in this document.