Steel rivet mainly used in applications where reliability and safety count. A typical application for solid rivets can be found within the structural parts of aircraft. Hundreds of thousands of solid rivets are used to assemble the frame of a modern aircraft...
The hollow steel rivet is a metal product, a rod-shaped part with a cap at one end. After penetrating into the connected member, the other end is hit and pressed at the outer end of the rod to compress and fix the member. It belongs to the hollow type rivet, which is different from the hollow rivet commonly known as "corn eye", which is made by punching the pipe material by the rivet machine.
Solid steel rivets are mainly used in applications where reliability and safety count. A typical application for solid rivets can be found within the structural parts ofaircraft. Hundreds of thousands of solid rivets are used to assemble the frame of a modern aircraft.