Handbook of Bolts and Bolted Joints

PART I: MATERIAL PROPERTIES AND SELECTION

1.    Fastener Materials                                                               

A. Craig Hood

2.    Joining with Aluminum Alloy Bolts and Nuts                    

Russell E. Mack

3.   Titanium Screw Joint Systems: Initial Preloading and Service Load Effect 

Dario Croccolo and Nicolo Vincenzi

PART II: PROCESSING OF FASTENERS

4.    Fastener Manufacturing                                                       

Jesse A. Phebus and Peter F. Kasper

5.    Fastener Coatings                                                              

John Laurilliard

6.   Thread Lubricants                                                                 

Gary J. Novak and Tom Patel

7.   Tribology of Threaded Joints: Sustainable Lubricants

Mattia Mele and Giorgio Olmi

PART III: THREADED FASTENERS

8.    Computing the Strength of a Fastener

Joseph Barron

9.    Computing the Stiffness of a Fastener                                     

Joseph Barron

10.  Computing Joint Stiffness

Sayed A. Nassar and Antoine G. Abboud

11.  Washers: A Guide to Their Function and Selection          

Marc Levinson

12.    Vibration-Resistant Fasteners                                              

Joseph R. Dudley

13.    Aerospace Bolts                                                                   

Shahriar M. Sadri 

14.   Thread Forming, Self-Tapping, and Thermoplastic Screws

Basil Housari and Ali Alkelani

PART IV: DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF BOLTED JOINTS

15.   VDI Joint Design Procedures                                              

Alex W. Heston

16.   Design Guidelines for Automotive Bolted Joints

Ali Alkelani and Basil Housari 

17.   Design of Gasketed Joints                                                   

Bernard S. Nau

18.   ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Design Rules for Bolted Flanges                                                               

George Bibel

19.   Fastener Selection for Non-Metallic Automotive Joints

Antoine G. Abboud

20.   Design of Joints Loaded in Shear                                      

Richard T. Barrett

21.   Design Rules for Structural Steel Bolting                           

John H. Bickford and William A. Milek

22.   Quality Inspection of Automotive Joints 

Ali Alkelani and Basil Housari

PART V: ASSEMBLY OF BOLTED JOINTS

23.    Behavior of a Bolted Joint During Assembly                     

John H. Bickford

24.   Tightening Groups of Fasteners in a Structure and the Resulting Elastic Interaction                                               

George Bibel

25.   Hydraulic Stud Tensioning                                                  

William L. Biach

26.   Torque-Control of Bolt Tightening                                     

John H. Bickford

27.   Torque-Angle Control of Bolt Tightening                          

Ralph S. Shoberg

28.   Torque-to-Yield Control Process of Bolt Tightening

Paul W. Wallace and Sayed A. Nassar

29.   Stretch Control                                                                    

Rod Corbett

30.    Ultrasonics in Bolted Joints                                                 

Sayed Nassar

31.    Direct Tension Indicators                                                    

David Sharp

32.    Selecting Preload for an Existing Joint                               

John H. Bickford

PART VI: THE JOINT IN SERVICE

33.   Clamp Load Decay in Multi-Material Joints Due to Cyclic Heating and Cooling  

Sayed A. Nassar, Andrew Q. Smail, Amir Kazemi

34. Joint Diagrams                                                                        

John H. Bickford

35.   Loss of Clamp Load in Post-Yielded Joint Systems Subjected to Axial

       Service Loading

Marco Gerini-Romagnoli

 36.  Fatigue Performance of Ultra-High Strength Metric Bolts

Sayed Nassar and Tianwu Li  

37. Fatigue Testing of A286 Steel Bolts

Sayed Nassar, Michael J. Dube, and Rania Mansour

38. Improved Criterion for Cumulative Fatigue Damage of Preloaded Steel Bolts

Sayed A. Nassar and Rania Mansour

39. The Susceptibility of Fasteners to Hydrogen Embrittlement and Stress Corrosion Cracking                    

Louis Raymond

40.  Vibration- and Shock-Induced Loosening                          

Daniel P. Hess

41.   Vibration Loosening  Analysis and Simulation of Preloaded  

         Threaded Fasteners

 Massimiliano De Agostinis and Stefano Fini

PART VII: TESTING AND INSPECTION OF BOLTS AND JOINTS

42.    Field Testing of Structural Bolts and Installation Tools Using a Bolt Tension Calibrator

         John W. Wilhelm, Jr

43.    Torque–Tension Audits                                                     

Ralph S. Shoberg

44.    Statistical Design and Analysis of Multivariable Experiments                                                                       

Bernard Clément

45.    Case Study: Rupture of a Wind Turbine Composite Blade-to-Hub Bolted Joint 

         Jereme Kent, Chelsea Blub, Sherif Gindy, and Sayed A.Nassar

Biography

Sayed A. Nassar is a fellow of ASME, the John F. Dodge Chair of Engineering, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and founding director of the Fastening and Joining Research Institute (FAJRI), Oakland University (OU), Rochester, Michigan. He is also the founding director of the OU site of funded NSF IUCRC Center for Composite and Hybrid Material Interfacing (CHMI) which has two more sites at Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Tennessee‑Knoxville. At OU, Dr. Nassar teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in design, solid mechanics, and material joining; his current research is predominantly in the area of material joining, where he supervised more than 35 PhD and MS theses and published more than 300 peer‑reviewed papers on the subject. Dr. Nassar holds seven US and International patents and is the founding president of University Research and Engineering Consultants (UREC LLC), Northville, Michigan. He is currently the chair of Fastening and Joining Committee, Design Division of ASME. Dr. Nassar received his MS and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering (Structural Mechanics) from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.

John H. Bickford is a private consultant, Middletown, Connecticut. He was formerly vice‑president of Raymond Engineering, Inc., and manager of its Bolting Products Division in Middletown, Connecticut.