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All tagged bolted joint
In the summer of 1981, the suspended walkways on the second and fourth floor of the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Missouri collapsed, killing over 110 people and injuring over 200 more. How did a small design change cause this failure?
Designing a bolted joint involves many structural considerations including preload requirements, torque requirements, thread engagements, etc. The bolted joint is expected to withstand the maximum applied forces to the joint over its lifetime of operations.
A bolted joint is the joining of two pieces of material using a bolt (or other threaded fastener) and a nut or threaded/tapped hole. It is expected that the bolted joint will be able to withstand the maximum applied forces to the joint over its lifetime.
