Structural Analysis of Bolted Joints

This first video takes a look at the anatomy of a bolted joint different types fasteners commonly used.

This video introduces you to some of the key dimensions used in a bolted joint. Once you have finished watching it you will have a good understanding of what features and sizes need your focus on in the design of a joint.

This is the last video of this section on the anatomy of the bolted joint. In it you will learn about the different types of bolt heads commonly used and the wide variety of nuts that hold the joint together.

This video introduces this section on the design of a simple joint.

We take a look at the loading on a bolted joint and the path that these loads take through the structure.

In this video we learn about the the two different types of stress we need to consider when designing a simple joint. 

In this video we examine  the "allowables", or how much stress our simple joint can carry.

This video teaches you about how we quantify how safe our joint is.

This is the last video in this section of the course which fives a quick recap of what we've covered so far.

We are now going to take a look at a slightly more complicated joint. This video will set the scene and teach you about the centroid of the bolt group and transferring our applied loads to an equivalent system of loads at the centroid. It also describes how the applied shear loads are shared amongst the fasteners.

This video completes the load distribution that we started in the previous lesson by showing how we deal with the moment Mo.

We now introduce a special property of the bolt group called the moment of inertia and use it to find the shear loads on the bolts from our moment.

This video completes our calculation by showing you how force polygons can be used to calculate the resultant loads on our bolts.

In this video we take a look at a simple spreadsheet that can be downloaded from the course materials automating the bolt group analysis.

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