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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blind rivets, or breakstems, provide vibrationproof fastening for a wide variety of materials. But designers must know at least the basics before specifying them for applications. Rivets have been ...

The Titanic might have gone down more slowly and more of its passengers could have been rescued if the shipyard that built it, Harland & Wolff in Northern Ireland, had not skimped on the quality of ...