Handbook of Bolts and Bolted Joints

About this book

Presenting time-tested standard as well as reliable emerging knowledge on threaded fasteners and joints this book covers how to select parts and materials predict behavior control assembly processes and solve on-the-job problems. It examines key issues affecting bolting in the automotive pressure vessel petrochemical aerospace and structural steel industries. The editors have successfully created a useful rather than scholarly handbook with chapters written in a straightforward how-to-do-it manner. Theory is discussed only when necessary and the handbooks logical organization and thorough index enhances its usefulness.