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Structural Steel Bolt Torque Requirements: How Safe Is Your Project?

11/11/2024 08:00 AM

Structural Steel Bolt Torque Requirements: What You Need to Know A325 and A490 bolts are high-strength structural fasteners commonly used in bridges and steel-framed buildings. These bolts have specific load and tension requirements as per American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) specifications. But what about structural steel bolt torque requirements? At Maxpro, we’re often […]

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Most Accurate Torque Wrench: Why Use Digital torque wrenches (DTWs)

08/09/2022 08:45 AM

When fixing a broken arm, we want to tighten the bolt as tight as possible without having a backlash. Torque measure how much force is applied to a fastener and how far you can turn it.  Torque wrenches have a range of uses, from tightening small bolts on bicycles or cars to large bolts on […]

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Bolt Tightening Methods 101

09/04/2018 06:59 AM

One of the biggest challenges when working with bolted joints is achieving a precise, accurate preload. Inadequate preload is a common cause for bolted joint failure, which is why it’s so important to use the appropriate bolt tightening methods. In this blog post, we’ll look at some of the most common bolt tightening methods and […]

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High Strength Bolt Tightening Verification Techniques

08/07/2018 09:32 AM

Following our series of blog posts that looked at different bolted joint tensioning methods, we’re now going to look at some bolt tightening verification techniques. More specifically, we’re going to explore these techniques through the prism of non-destructive evaluation (NDE) technologies.

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Proper Torque of Rail Car Tank Lid Bolts

11/21/2017 03:49 PM

The National Transportation Safety Board has stepped up its enforcement of the rules governing proper torque of rail car tank lid bolts. And railroad operators have finally begun to realize the importance of bolt torque after neglecting this issue for decades.

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Bolt Tightening Sequence Procedures

08/22/2017 09:24 AM

It might seem like common sense, but taking the extra time to make sure you’ve performed the correct bolt tightening sequence can make a massive difference in an application. In this blog post, we’ll review the basics of bolt tightening procedure.

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Checking Your Bolt Torque

06/06/2017 08:30 AM

Knowing how to check bolt torque is a key ingredient in making sure fasteners don’t fail. There are several ways to determine bolt torque, including torque auditing.   As Bill Eccles of Bolt Science writes, there are three ways this can be achieved: “Each of these three methods have their deficiencies,” Eccles says. “The key […]

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How to Avoid Bolt Failure

05/23/2017 07:30 AM

“We sometimes underestimate the importance of little things,” wrote Charles W. Chestnutt in 1901. Why is a torque wrench company opening a blog post about bolt failure with a quote by a turn-of-the-century author? Because bolts are often the smallest elements of a design, but that does not make them unimportant. When bolts fail, they […]

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The Basics of Bolted Joints in Wind Turbines

04/25/2017 08:00 AM

Wind turbines are held together with bolted joints that are under constant attack from vibration, fatigue, corrosion and bolt relaxation. Windpower Engineering magazine lists a few things professionals in the wind industry – especially those in the market for new wind turbine torque tools – should know about tightening and tensioning.

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Bolt Tightening and Quality Control

01/18/2017 08:12 AM

We’ve used this blog to talk about quality control before, but today we’re going to approach this topic from a new angle: quality control as it relates to bolt tightening. As the website Bolt Science puts it: “It is no longer sufficient just to run a nut down a bolt until it stops and hope […]

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