Mechanical design and rivet arrangement

Considering all the calculations made for our riveted joint and project edict, which provides some limitations in the design, we developed the joint design in SolidWorks.

Through the calculations, we arrive at a commercial value of plate thickness of 1/4 in.

In addition, for the rivets, we reach a commercial value, in which we will find a drill sold commercially to realize the holes that will contain the rivets, with a diameter of 8.5mm.

To reach these measures we consider the arrangement of three rivets per sheet, one per section. We use this arrangement considering the most feasible safety factor to the project and to follow the specification of the project edict in which the maximum joint width should be 2 in. When we suppose to consider triangular storage, the width exceeded the established limit being thus disregarded.