Aerospace fasteners have traditionally enjoyed the reputation of being produced from the finest materials and have undergone more basic design changes than fasteners for any other application. While alloys have been continually developed to withstand increasingly higher tensile loads coupled with extended fatigue life, relatively little work has been done with nonmechanical aspects of fasteners. Now that skins are critical portions of the overall aircraft, the role of the surface fastener has become of paramount importance in order to maintain a high degree of structural integrity.
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