Fretting Fatigue Behavior of Riveted Al 6XXX Components

The riveting is widely used for fitting together two or more elements of structure in the same or different materials. In these assemblies the stress field is complex, we have to consider the effect of the geometrical discontinuity, the contact, the tightening, the material properties and the applied load. The current work focus on the study of fretting fatigue crack formation in common 6XXX aluminum alloys, used in land transportation...