Gkss-forschungszentrum Geesthacht Gmbh

Helmholtz-zentrum Geesthacht Zentrum Fur Material Und Kustenforschung Gmbh

Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Matthias Beyer

Maik Broda

Jorge F Dos Santos

Sergio De Traglia Amancio Filho

Torsten Hallfeldt

Alfons Fischer

Mareike Hahn

A method of connecting a plastic workpiece to a further workpiece and a device for carrying out the method are shown and described. The object of providing a method with which a positive-locking connection between a plastic workpiece and a further workpiece can be produced in a short time and without considerable outlay in terms of apparatus is achieved by a method comprising the following steps: providing a plastic workpiece and a further workpiece, placing the further workpiece against the plastic workpiece, providing a connecting element on a surface of the plastic workpiece, this surface being opposite the surface against which the further workpiece bears, producing a recess in the further workpiece, this recess being provided on the surface bearing against the plastic workpiece, heating the connecting element, so that the material of the connecting element is plasticized, and pressing plasticized material into the recess.

Method and device for connecting a plastic workpiece to a further workpiece

A method of connecting a metallic bolt to a plastic work piece is shown and described. The object to provide a method which makes possible a reliable connection between metal workpieces on the one hand and plastic workpieces on the other hand is achieved in that a first plastic work piece and a metallic bolt are provided, and in that the bolt is pressed into a surface of the first plastic workpiece, the bolt being rotated during the pressing-in, and the rotational speed of the bolt being selected in such a way that the first plastic workpiece is plasticized, so that the bolt is anchored in the first plastic workpiece in a positive-locking manner after the rotation is stopped.

Method of connecting a metallic bolt to a plastic workpiece

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Reppenstedt, Germany

Matthias Beyer