Bolted flange joints are widely used in pressure vessels and piping. With the increase in
installation of nuclear power plants, chemical industries and oil and gas transportation …

Threaded fasteners are vastly used in the industry due to ease of mounting and dismounting
and flexibility of design. Nonetheless, several researchers indicate that most failures …

Bolted flange joints are commonly encountered in engineering structures. One specific
challenge that is regularly encountered is the modeling of connecting interfaces between …

The complex micro-slip phenomenon of the contact interface will lead to the nonlinear
stiffness of the connection structure, as well as the structural damping and energy …

Electromagnetic riveting (EMR) has the better riveting quality and more suitable for joining
composite materials than traditional riveting. In this work, the failure process of …

The specified finite element model is proposed for preload bolted flange connection
structure widely used in aerospace and rocket design. A fine hexahedral mesh model of the …

Flange joints are widely used in mechanical and civil structures. In this study joint
deformations are investigated and a detailed model, which can demonstrate the actual joint …

Loosening of threaded connection under impact loading is important in engineering
structures such as the fuze on a projectile. It is difficult to predict the loosening behavior of …

Vibration-based condition identification of bolted connections can benefit the effective
maintenance and operation of steel structures. Existing studies show that modal parameters …

The bolted flange joint is an important source of nonlinearity in dynamical analysis of launch
vehicles, which will lead to both longitudinal and transversal responses simultaneously …