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Table 1
Current in-use typical riveting technologies in an aircraft.
| Automation | Method | Presence (roughly) | ➢Advantages &
• Disadvantages |
Application |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manual | Hand riveting | N/A | ➢Convenient • Poor stable quality |
All kinds of riveting structures |
| Semi-automation | Percussive riveting | 1900s [10] | ➢Convenient • Poor quality stability • Low efficiency • High noise |
All kinds of riveting structures, even not open and more complex structures |
| Pressure riveting | 1900s [12] | ➢Stable quality ➢Good surface quality ➢High efficiency and good working conditions • Limited applications by structure type • Bulky riveting equipment |
Better Open components, such as ribs, frames, beams, panels | |
| Automation | Auto-drilling riveting | 1950s [15] | ➢High riveting quality ➢High efficiency ➢Good working condition • Complicated equipment and high cost |
Better open components, such as ribs, frames, beams and panels |
| Electro-magnetic riveting | 1970s [16] | ➢Uniform riveted interface ➢High fatigue life ➢No need for finishing holes and large tonnage riveting press ➢Small workpiece deformation • Complex equipment • Short life and big noise |
Titanium alloy, Alloy steel, Composites |
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