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Riveting Titanium flat sheets to steel, Best to use Titanium or steel rivets to avoid corrosion?

Riveting Titanium flat sheets to steel, Best to use Titanium or steel rivets to avoid corrosion?

Riveting Titanium flat sheets to steel, Best to use Titanium or steel rivets to avoid corrosion?

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Would riveted Titanium panels make chrome plated steel any more prone to corrode?

Which is better to use steel, stainless steel or Titanium rivets to avoid the chrome plated steel frame corroding?

RE: Riveting Titanium flat sheets to steel, Best to use Titanium or steel rivets to avoid corrosion?

If you were riveting steel to steel, it would be easy to answer- you'd use steel rivets. But the rivets aren't really the issue in your situation- you have titanium plates which are going to be galvanically noble relative to your chrome plated steel base material. And being riveted together, the two will definitely unavoidably be in electrical contact with one another.

If conditions are dry, it won't matter. But in wet locations, where the two metals are continuously bridged by an electrolyte, yes the titanium/steel galvanic couple will cause the chrome plated steel to rust more quickly than if the titanium weren't there. So the corrosion in a wet location is inevitable. If the concern is corrosion leading to failure of the rivets themselves, then I presume you'd be better off with titanium rivets. But if the concern is corrosion of the steel base metal, you're no better off either way as far as I can see.

RE: Riveting Titanium flat sheets to steel, Best to use Titanium or steel rivets to avoid corrosion?

If the Cr was perfect it wouldn't really matter, the Cr and Ti would play well together.
But the platting isn't perfect, and the Ti will only aggravate the issue.
As MM said, if you use Ti rivets then at least the rivets won't be the first thing to fail.
But the steel will rust if there is moisture.

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