![]() ![]() They were prone to failure, and to cracking. But as time passed, and shipbuilders became more and more ambitious, so vessels grew, and so wooden rivets were less capable of bearing the stresses and tensions of large sailing ship hulls. The Vikings employed wooden rivets to hold the planks of their ships together in the 7th and 8th centuries. Evidence of the earliest usage of rivets dates back to 3000BC in Egypt. They have been in use since the bronze age, and are still in use today, if mostly in the aircraft industry. Today, a rivet is often a short tube of metal, whose ends can be deformed via mechanical pressure (a hammer for example), sometimes assisted with heat (such as from a forge). Rivets - what, why and how, a brief reviewĪ Rivet is a way of holding two sheets or panels of overlapping material together, wood, metal, plastic or even wood.
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