Blind Rivet Standards

Material thickness each blind rivet is engineered for a specific range of material thickness for which it will be effective.

Blind rivet standards.

Most suppliers of quality blind rivets use this specification with a few variations. This range of material or work thickness is the blind rivet s grip range. The most recognised standard is ifi 114 break mandrel rivets from the industrial fasteners institute in the usa. Stainless 304 dome head blind rivet standard blind rivets with a stainless steel body and mandrel provide the strongest tensile strength shear strength and mandrel bread load standards.

Fastener standards for rivets cover multiple kinds of blind rivets addressing closed open and self plugging varieties. Stainless steel does not tarnish and resists corrosion and numerous chemicals and solvents. All aluminum aluminum rivet w steel mandrel all steel stainless rivet w steel mandrel and all stainless. Blind rivet standards back to fastener standards for rivets home blind rivets blind and closed rivets blind and open rivets blind and self plugging rivets.

To be installed the blind rivet is placed inside a drilled hole and through a riveting tool a pulling force is applied to the mandrel that deforms the body forming a joint. A blind rivet is a two piece fastener that consists of a rivet body and a mandrel. This international standard specifies the terminology and definitions for types performance characteristics and geometry for blind rivets and the terminology for blind rivet setting and setting equipment used generally in blind riveting. Other rivet standards address the mechanical and material properties of the alloys the rivets are made from.

Hole size proper hole size is important to ensure the in tegrity of the fastened joint. Ifi 135 2003 mechanical testing of blind rivets. American standard ifi 114 rivets american standard inch series blind rivets are manufactured to ifi 114 specifications. Ajax blind rivets are manufactured at our own plant in singapore and generally adhere to ifi 114.

Rivets buck bolts blind rivets and threaded fasteners shall be assembled with wet unthinned zinc chromate primer conforming to tt p 1757. If the fasteners are dissimilar to and can result in a direct contact with magnesium a washer of 5052 aluminum alloy with not less than an over lap of 0 125. Diameter and spacing of the blind rivets. After installation these rivets resemble tubular rivets but in divergence to tubular rivets a portion of the mandrel stays inside the body.