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> *Then again, my 1973 American Institute of Steel Construction
> handbook, which I used in Arch school, includes various references to
> and tables for rivets, but I don't remember ever having had to design
> any riveted connections for class.  So maybe rivets went out in 1972
> instead of 1946.*

Or it could be not the first time a standards manual was 20 years behind
market.

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