Riveted joints can fail in four locations:
1. Shear failure of rivets when shear stresses exceed the rivets' working shear stress.
2. Tension failure of plates when tensile stresses cause plates to tear along rows of rivets.
3. Bearing failure of plates or rivets when bearing stresses crush the material.
4. Shear failure of plates when shear stresses exceed the plates' allowable shear stress.
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Failures in Rivet
Riveted joints can fail in four locations:
1. Shear failure of rivets when shear stresses exceed the rivets' working shear stress.
2. Tension failure of plates when tensile stresses cause plates to tear along rows of rivets.
3. Bearing failure of plates or rivets when bearing stresses crush the material.
4. Shear failure of plates when shear stresses exceed the plates' allowable shear stress.
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ATRAYEE MAJUMDER 27502320060 6TH
STRUCTURE IV ARCH 601
FAILURE OF RIVETED JOINT
Rivets are nonthreaded fasteners that are usually manufactured from steel or aluminium. They consist of a preformed ü Rivets are short ductile and cylindrical bars that are used for head and shank, which is inserted into the making a permanent mechanical joint. The process of material to be joined and the second head forming a riveted joint is called riveting. that enables the rivet to function as a ü As it is a permanent joint it cannot be disassembled without fastener is formed on the free end by a the failure of the machine component. variety of means known as setting. ü The material of rivet should be tough and ductile. ü They are made of low carbon steel, nickel steel, brass, aluminium copper etc Parts of a Rivet
The main function of a rivet is to
make a connection, that has the strength to prevent failure and There are four types of stresses occur at tightness to prevent leakage. riveted joints. Therefore, the failure is possible in four locations as The cold riveting process is follows: used for structural joints while 1- Shearing stress failure in rivets hot riveting is used to make 2- Tension stress failure in plate. leak-proof joints. 3- Bearing stress failure between plate and rivet. 4- Shearing stress failure in plate. Assumption: Shearing stress in rivets is equal and uniform. This assumption is approximately true because the shearing stresses are actually distributed in a non-uniform way across the area of the cut.
Shear stresses are generated in the rivets because the plates slip due to applied forces. When this shear stress exceeds from working shear stress, this type of failure takes place.
The plates which are connected
by rivets exert tensile stress on rivets. When the rivets are unable to resist the stress, they shear off A joint may fail due to tearing of the plate at an edge. And this can be avoided by keeping the It is a failure in which a block of a member is margin, When rivet is placed at a lesser edge torn out as depicted below around the bolt m=1.5d, distance than specified, the internal holes in the periphery. When high shear where d is the pressure of over driven rivet causes strength bolt and high bearing strength plates diameter of failure. This is known as shear failure are used, length of connection gets reduced the rivet hole of plates. leading to block shear failure. Due to tensile tresses in the main plate, thhe main plate or cover plate may tear off across a row of rivets. In such cases, we consider only one pitch length of the plate. since every If the force is too large that stress Block tearing is a failure mode in which part of an rivet is responsible in the plate exceeds the allowable object (a member or through) is torn away from the for that much length tensile stress of plate material, rest of it, which is generally relevant for normal stresses of the plate only. then the plate may fail in tension and shear stresses on the surfaces involved. along the row. Bearing failure of plates: Bearing failure of rivets:
When bearing stress The strong plates (in
generated in the plate bearing) carrying heavier exceeds from the stresses press the rivet. working bearing stress, The rivet is crushed the plate is crushed. This around the half is the bearing failure of circumference. This is the plates. bearing failure of rivets. If the connected plates are made of high strength steel then failure The strong plates (in of bolt can take place by bearing bearing) carrying of the plates on the bolts. If the heavier stresses press plate material is weaker than the the rivet. The rivet is bolt material, then failure will crushed around the half occur by bearing of the bolt on circumference. This is the plate and the hole will the bearing failure of elongate. rivets.