The Mechanics of Threaded Fasteners and Bolted Joints for Engineering and Design

The Mechanics of Threaded Fasteners and Bolted Joints outlines how threaded fasteners and bolted joints fail, how these failures can be remedied, and ultimately how to avoid them altogether through tightening methods, material strength, and avoiding loosening. The book demonstrates how to select the appropriate tightening method and determine the optimal tightening procedure for varying nominal diameters. Using the finite element method, it discusses characteristics of stress concentration and fatigue strength and covers bolt force variation due to elastic interaction. The separation of the plate interface via increased external force as the primary cause of fatigue failure in threaded fasteners is discussed, with effective countermeasures provided. Empirical equations of thermal contact coefficient and apparent thermal contact coefficient in simple form are included as well.??

Autorentext
Toshimichi Fukuoka is a professor emeritus at Kobe University, Japan, and conducts research in the areas of numerical analysis and experimental study of thermal and mechanical behavior of bolted joints, application of computational mechanics to structural design and safety assessment, study of thermal contact resistance and interface stiffness, and inverse problems in contact mechanics and heat transfer phenomena.

Inhalt

1. Thread Standards and Forms
   
   2. Fundamentals of Threaded Fasteners
   3. Mechanics of Tightening Process of Threaded Fasteners
   4. Static and Fatigue Strengths of Threaded Fasteners
   5. Bolted Joints under Thermal Load
   6. Loosening of Threaded Fasteners
   7. Thermal and Mechanical Behaviors of Pipe Flange Connections
   8. Learning from Troubles and Accidents of Threaded Fasteners