The tragic sinking of the Titanic nearly a century ago can be blamed on low-grade rivets that the ship's builders used on some parts of the ill-fated liner, two experts on metals conclude in a new ...

Industrial Rivet & Fastener Co., also known as RivetKing, won Product of the Year in the fastening category at the ASSEMBLY ...

Rivets hold planes together against high stresses thousands of feet off the ground, but they're not used by automakers, who ...

You may not have consciously thought about it, but the way we build cars is very different from the way we build airplanes. Your sedan or SUV has a smooth, unibody exterior because its individual ...

It’s time to surrender. The innumerable types of plastic pop rivets now used to hold instrument panels, body trim or body panels in place on modern farm equipment or vehicles have taken over the world ...

Rivets may be small, but making them by hand takes careful attention to detail. In this video, I forge dome head rivets from ...

Researchers from Skoltech and Harbin Institute of Technology have devised and tested a new mechanism for joining together the composite parts that make up bridges, the cooling towers of power stations ...

Parts can be fastened by a rivet if flat parallel surfaces exist for both the rivet clinch and head, and there is adequate space for the rivet driver during clinching. When a blind rivet is set, a ...

First-rate hardware can enhance the look and feel of an opulent leather piece. Further, employing rivet setters and snaps in leather creation adds an aspect of sophistication and practicality to ...

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