ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the research that attempts to discuss a key effect impacting their behaviour, which is the hot-driving process. It discusses the influence of the hot driving process on the mechanical properties of steel rivets. Rivet driving increases the tensile strength of steel rivets markedly. Tensile tests are performed on undriven and driven steel rivets, and the results are compared with historical test data. In contrast with wrought-iron bars, the material properties of rivet steel and rivet high-strength steel were more uniform and very few variations are to be observed between various countries such as Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, the UK, the US, and Canada. As a result, the ultimate tensile strength of driven rivets is a good proxy for the determination of their ultimate shear strength. Investigations on the impact of the hot-driving process on the mechanical properties of rivets made of wrought iron would be worth conducting.
