International Journ Internatio ISSN No: 24 @ IJTSRD | Available Online @ www.i FEM Simulation Departm Technica ABSTRACT Clinching is one of a method of mech processes. The clinching is a cold joinin belongs to a group of plastic joining tech of materials are joined in car body prod parts of car body construction consist two steel sheets, that are needed to be steel sheets of deep drawing quality mar were joined by round clinching tool wi FEA Ansys Workbench software was us the joining of three steel sheets. Due to nature of the clinching process, the si simplified to a 2D representation. presented and discussed in the paper. Key Words: clinching, joining, FEA I. INTRODUCTION Increasing demands for body in white to new solutions for materials and man dissimilar combination of material thickness are specified for a special loca of the car body. One of the progressiv joining methods of materials is cli Clinching is a process that joins two or m their plastic deformation, creating between. The interlocking creation is the mechanical joints to carry the load [ parts of the CL tool are a punch, a di holder. By moving the punch, the joined drawned into the cavity of the die [2]. T is specially shaped so that interlo between the joined sheets. The process illustrated in Fig. 1. nal of Trend in Scientific Research and De onal Open Access Journal | www.ijtsrd.c 456 - 6470 | Volume - 3 | Issue – 1 | Nov ijtsrd.com | Volume – 3 | Issue – 1 | Nov-Dec 20 n of Clinching of Three Steel S Ľuboš Kaščák, René Kubík ment of Computer Support of Technology, al University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia hanical joining ng process and hnology. A lot duction. Some of more than joined. Three rked as DC 06 ith a rigid die. sed to simulate o axisymmetric imulation was Results are assembly lead nufacturing. A ls and their al requirements ve mechanical inching (CL). more sheets by interlocking necessary for [1]. The active ie and a sheet d materials are The die cavity ocking occurs s of the CL is Figure1. The proces The basic features of the CL mechanical joining include [4]  the structure, deformation to thermal influence do no materials,  a wide range of metals, n their combinations can combining different thic materials,  pretreatment of joined ma most cases,  materials can be joined w surfaces or coatings,  the joining takes place with other kind of pollution. The cross section of typical c in Fig. 2. Figure2. Cross sectio evelopment (IJTSRD) com v – Dec 2018 018 Page: 1290 Sheets ss of clinching L method as well as the ]: n and residual stress due ot occur in the clinched non-metal materials and be combined, possibly cknesses of the joined terials is not required in without damaging their hout the emission of any clinched joints is shown on of CL joint