Nuts & bolts

Nuts & bolts

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

Industry: Machine tools

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Nuts & bolts

thread length

Machine tools; Nuts & bolts

Length the portion of the fastener with threads.

friction

Machine tools; Nuts & bolts

Mechanical resistance to the relative movement of two surfaces. There are two main types of friction; static friction and dynamic friction. Typically static friction is greater than dynamic friction.

The force under the head of a bolt or nut can exceed, at high preloads, the compressive yield strength of the clamped material. If this occurs excessive embedding and deformation can result in bolt ...

U bolt

Machine tools; Nuts & bolts

A U shaped fastener threaded at both ends used primarily in suspension and related areas of vehicles.

soft joint

Machine tools; Nuts & bolts

A joint in which the plates and material between the nut and bolt bearing surfaces have a low stiffness when subjected to compression by the bolt load. In such a joint, the bolt (or nut) typically ...