Handbook of Bolts and Bolted Joints

Presenting time-tested standards as well as validated emerging knowledge on threaded fasteners and bolted joints, this updated edition covers how to design, select parts and materials, control assembly processes, predict behavior, and solve on-the-job problems.

This handbook examines key issues affecting bolting in the automotive, pressure vessel, petrochemical, aerospace, energy, and structural steel industries. The editors have successfully created a useful rather than scholarly handbook with chapters written in a straightforward, how-to manner. Theory is discussed only when necessary and the handbook’s logical organization and thorough index enhance its usefulness. Handbook of Bolts and Bolted Joints, Second Edition includes updated chapters, solved numerical examples, and case studies.

This new edition is an essential handbook for professionals, researchers, and students in all fields in which threaded joints are used, including automotive, aerospace, structural, chemical, and naval and ocean engineering, as well as agricultural equipment, wind turbines, and medical devices.

SAYED A. NASSAR is a Fellow of ASME, the John F. Dodge Chair of Engineering, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, 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) that 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 Ph.D. and MS theses and published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers on the subject. Dr. Nassar holds 7 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. Nassar received his MS and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering (Structural Mechanics) at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.

JOHN H. BICKFORD is a Private Consultant, Middletown. Connecticut. Formerly, Vice-President of Raymond Engineering, Inc., and Manager of its Bolting Products Division in Middletown, Connecticut.