Nuts & bolts

Nuts & bolts

Engineering science related to nuts, bolts, threaded fasteners and tightening techniques.

Industry: Machine tools

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environmentally assisted cracking (EAC)

Machine tools; Nuts & bolts

A process that can occur with the use of high strength steel fasteners in which crack initiation and growth occurs in the fastener at a comparatively low stress level as a result of interactions that ...

integral fastener

Machine tools; Nuts & bolts

A term used to describe types of fasteners which are highly resistant to vibration loosening and/or removal. Some types have special thread forms.

instantaneous centre of rotation

Machine tools; Nuts & bolts

The point in space that an eccentrically shear loaded joint rotates about. The deformation and the load sustained by an individual bolt in a bolt group is dependent upon the distance that the bolt is ...

anaerobic adhesive

Machine tools; Nuts & bolts

An adhesive which hardens in the absence of air, such adhesives are often used as a thread locking medium.

left-hand thread

Machine tools; Nuts & bolts

When viewed from the starting end of a fastener the thread winds counter-clockwise, whereas a standard right hand thread follows a clockwise direction.

acme screw threads

Machine tools; Nuts & bolts

A translating thread form used on fasteners with special thread requirements.

coneloc nut

Machine tools; Nuts & bolts

Cleveloc NutThe Coneloc is an all metal prevailing torque type self-locking nut. The locking action is achieved by localized precision deformation of the thread in the cone section on top of the nut. ...