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		Riveting - Course: Technique for manual working of materials. Trainees' handbook of lessons (Institut für Berufliche Entwicklung, 22 p.)
			(introduction...)
			1. Purpose of riveting
			2. Kinds of rivets
			3. Kinds of riveted joints
			4. Tools and auxiliary means for riveting
			5. Calculations for the selection of rivets
			6. Technological process of riveting
			7. Loosening of a riveted connection
			8. Riveting faults

3. Kinds of riveted joints

Movable rivetings are always made in the form of individual rivetings; the parts can be moved against one another after being riveted.

Fixed rivetings are mostly made in the form of riveted seams at plates.

Figure 11 - Movable riveting (example: tongs)

We distinguish between:

- Kind of joint - butt joints, lap riveted joints

Figure 12 - Single-row lap riveted joint

- Number of rows - single-row, multirow

Figure 13 - Double-row parallel lap riveted joint

- Arrangement of rivets - parallel, zigzag

Figure 14 - Double-row parallel butt riveted joint

Figure 15 - Double-row zigzag butt riveted joint