Is there a standard or any guidelines as to how many layers of material a rivet can fasten together? Typcially I see a rivet fastening two or three layers of material together. I have a design that currently passes a rivet through 4 pcs of material.
The structure is an all aluminum housing...
I'm using Dave S. Steinberg's "Vibration Analysis for Electronic Equipment" to calculate the allowable displacement for a PCB (printed circuit board) with surface mount components. One of the equation variables is the thickness of the PCB. If my PCB is mounted to an aluminum housing...