---
publication_id: "OT-2026-000002100"
title: "Riveted joint"
published_at: "2026-09-15T19:10:48.362043Z"
canonical_url: "https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000002100"
categories:
  - "manufacturing-assembly-equipment/assembly-systems"
keywords:
  - "b23p19/062"
  - "f16b5/04"
  - "f16b5/04"
  - "b21j15/02"
  - "b21j15/025"
  - "b21j15/025"
---

# Riveted joint

## Abstract

A riveted joint in which a rivet foot of a rivet element is driven into a component with a setting force, in particular by spreading the rivet foot. The rivet foot has a reduced cross-section in the still undeformed state and has an expanded cross-section in the driven-in state. The rivet foot is designed as a bistable spring portion that has two equilibrium states, namely the undeformed cross-section-reduced state and an expanded spread state. As a result of the setting force being applied, the rivet element changes from the undeformed state to the spread state, in which the rivet foot is spread with an expanded cross-section in the component, in particular without the build-up of a springback force that biases the rivet element towards the undeformed state.