Engineering components supplier BMG’s Nord-Lock bolting solutions now include Boltight hydraulic bolt tensioners, which are used to tighten bolts simultaneously, ensuring even preload in industrial ...

The scatter of bolt clamping force tightened by the conventional torque control method very often causes loosening and fatigue failure of bolted joints. Different values of frictional coefficients ...

Multijackbolt tensioners save time, space, and money when it comes to oversized bolts. Multijackbolt tensioners (MJT) are heavy-duty bolt-tightening devices that engineers use on critical equipment, ...

Tightening bolts is simple enough until you accidentally do it wrong. Over-tighten them, and you end up stripping screws, snapping screw heads, or damaging the threading that holds the bolts in place, ...

Gasketed bolted flange joints continue to be a critical component in a wide variety of industrial applications, ranging from pressure vessels to large-scale piping systems. The analysis and ...

As Charlie Chaplin figured out during his brief assembly-line career depicted in the 1936 film Modern Times, tightening bolts all day can be a real pain. Lucky for Charlie, and for any one of us ...

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