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In a message dated 5/13/2001 9:46:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
lancair.list@olsusa.com writes:

<< In commercial aircraft you will often see metal bonding in primary load
 carrying structures. The bond is often backed up with a few fasteners "just
 in case". These fasteners are affectionately known as "chicken rivets". >>

Umm, I don't think that's really what's going on here.  Quite often adhesives
are strong in shear and tension but weak in peel (kinda like velcro).  The
purpose of those little rivets is NOT to take the shear and/or tension loads,
but just the peel forces.  This allows the adhesive to do the work in shear
and tension, but not be subjected to peel.

- Rob Wolf
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