Fastener Definitions
Commercial Fastener – is a fastener manufactured to the requirement of published standards or documents ad stocked by manufacturers or distributors.
Fastener – is a mechanical device designed specifically to hold, join, couple, assemble, or maintain equilibrium of single or multiple components. The resulting assembly may function dynamically or statically as a primary or secondary component of a mechanism or structure. Based on the application intended, a fastener receives varying degrees of built inprecision and engineering capability, ensuring adequate, sound service under planned, per-established environment conditions.
Fastening – is the act or process by which single or multiple components are held, joined, coupled, assembled, or otherwise maintained in equilibrium.
Bolt – is a headed and externally threaded mechanical device designed for insertion through holes in assembled parts to mate with a nut and is normally intended to be tightened or released by turning that nut.
Nut – is a perforated block (usually of metal) possessing an internal, or female, screw thread, intended fro use on an
Screw – A headed and externally threaded mechanical device possessing capabilities which permit it to be inserted into holes in assembled parts, of mating with a preformed internal thread or forming its own thread, and of being tightened or released by torquing its head.
Rivet – is a headed and un-threded mechanical device used to assemble two or more components by an applied force which deforms the plain rivet end to develop a completed mechanical joint.