Investigation of a self piercing riveted joint with a focus on dynamic loads

Due to weight and cost restrictions new car concepts rely on a variety of different materials tailored for each specific requirement like e.g. crash worthiness. Thereby new joining technologies have to be used to assemble the parts. The assessment of car concepts based on numerical simulations necessitate the knowledge of the phenomenology of the assembled parts especially in case of failure. The current paper describes an approach to take care of these effects based on a combination of numerical and experimental investigations. It starts with the process simulation and ends in a manageable full car model. In between a detailed numerical model handles the phenomena of the assembly. First results will be presented in the paper and discussed in respect to the use in a full car model.