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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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structural bolt tightening , torque or tension

Wind Industry's Number 1 Tool: E-RAD Torque Wrench

06/17/2021 11:26 AM

New World Technologies set the industry standard when the E-RAD electric high-capacity torque wrench debuted in 2005. There was nothing like this tool on the market at that time: a calibrated, accurate, electric torque wrench with a capacity as high as 4,000 feet/pounds. Around the same time, the American wind energy business started to take […]

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bolt tightening procedures , e-rad torque wrench , Electric Torque Wrench , erad , industrial bolting , RAD , Torque Wrenches , wind turbine maintenance , wind turbine projects

Industrial Bolting Safety, it’s all about process and procedure

03/12/2021 12:56 PM

Industrial safety is an industry in itself today. Avoiding accidents and mitigating lost work time is of the utmost importance for anyone in the industrial workplace. Industrial bolting, is a high risk, focal point of safety managers, and the following is a brief process that should be considered when bolting is part of a job:

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industrial bolting , Industrial Safety

Bolting in Civil Engineering

01/14/2020 09:15 AM

If you want to understand the importance of proper bolting in civil engineering and bridge construction, spend some time reading about what happened to the Bay Bridge in California in 2013. According to the Los Angeles Times, 32 bolts on the bridge snapped during tightening in March of that year, “leaving the seismic safety of […]

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bolting in civil engineering

Does RAD Make a Torque Wrench for My Bolting Application?

09/18/2019 12:37 PM

Based in Canada, RAD is a leading manufacturer of torque equipment, including hydraulic, pneumatic, electronic and battery-powered torque wrenches. With more than 21 years’ industry experience, you’ll find these high-quality tools at work in a number of different critical industries.

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torque wrench bolting applications

Battery Torque Wrench Application: Flatbed Cable Tie Downs

02/19/2019 08:51 AM

Whether it’s by rail or over the road trucking, flatbed transit has long had difficulties when it comes to securing heavy loads with cable tie downs. These tie downs – which are typically wire ropes or heavy-duty nylon straps secure items like lumber, steel and machinery on the backs of trucks or rail cars.

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battery torque wrench , flatbed tie downs

Torqued Bolts Didn’t Cause the Failure

07/11/2018 10:30 AM

We’ve written many times here about the importance of proper torque tool use, and ways operators can avoid torque bolt failure. In fact, the last time we discussed bolt failure, it was through a historical lens, as we looked at what happened on Oakland, California’s Bay Bridge in 2013. With this blog post, we’ll go […]

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Bolted Joint Methods: Direct Tension Control

06/05/2018 11:01 AM

In our last blog post we discussed some common indirect bolted joint tensioning methods, including torque control, torque and turn control, and stretch control. Some of these methods offer more precision than others, although none offer direct control over the tension created in the fastener the way the following methods

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Bolted Joint Direct Tension Control

Bolted Joint Tensioning Methods

05/15/2018 10:30 AM

Bolted joints will only hold together with the right amount of tension, which in turn requires the right amount of tightening. In this blog post, we’ll look some of the common bolted joint tensioning methods, including torque control, torque and turn control, and stretch control.

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bolted joint tensioning methods

Bolted Joint Design: The Difference Between Tension, Shear and Bending Joints

04/25/2018 11:25 AM

There are several different ways loads can be applied to bolted joints, each of them leading to specific effects on that joint that are the result of how the joint is loaded and responds to the load. Common load types include tension, shear and bending joints, each of which gets its name from the type […]

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bending joints , bolted joint design , shear joints , tension joints

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