When hot rodders build a street machine or street rod, countless hours are expended selecting the proper major components, building the drivetrain, detailing the chassis, choosing the right tires and ...

If you need to terminate high voltage crimps, then you will be well aware of the tooling required, which can be very expensive or physically hard to use due to the massive force required for using ...

Most engineers who deal with bolted joints are familiar with torque tables for SAE-grade bolts, but these are all too often used without regard for the yield strength of internal threads or the bolt’s ...

Mechanical fasteners, such as screws, bolts, pins and rivets, have been used for hundreds of years to assemble wood and metal structures. As composites have replaced other materials in structural ...

In a previous column, David Dearth, a consulting analyst and president of Applied Analysis & Technology, Huntington Beach, Calif. ( [email protected]), discussed four ways to handle fasteners and ...