In bolt mechanics, Bill Eccles stands out with over 50 years of experience. As the founder of Bolt Science, he’s been pivotal in transforming how we approach joint integrity and preload. In this interview, he discusses standards, digitalization, and Strainlabs’ impact in the field.
Bolted joints and tightening technology have a major impact on safety and efficiency across industrial sector. In this interview, Markus Fischer, a connected expert in bolted joints tightening technology and standardization work, summarizes the ongoing efforts and discussion of modernizing the industry.
2023 article series (5/6) – the performance of IoT Bolting Systems. Understand how they can bring valuable efficiency and reliability gains while considering the technical boundary conditions as bolted joints are digitalized.
Following a large market interest in Strainlabs Bolts beyond previous range M10-M20, Strainlabs now introduces three new sizes: M22, M24 and M27. Expanding the Strainlabs Internet of Bolts, also called IoT Bolts, Smart bolts or intelligent bolts, further to enhance connectivity capabilities to an even broader set of applications.
We asked Scott Donnachie, a fastener professional with over 21 years of experience in the industry of fasteners and automotive a chartered mechanical engineer, to summarize his view on why preload / achieved clamp load in a joint need to become more of an active focus in the industry.
Peter Nyström is a well-known consultant in Sweden helping some of our largest industrial and governmental organizations to verify correct assembly of critical steel structures.
Strainlabs System has been developed to enable remote and automated inspections of bolted joints over time. However, preload data has additional values and one of them is the ability to get preload values presented in Real Time.
Bolt inspections and retightening routines are common and reoccurring across industries. Get an overview on the natural causes why bolt preload changes over time and learn about the main values of digitalization of bolts.
We asked the Technical Director at Bumax, Anders Söderman, to explain why tensile tests are key when testing bolts quality and function – and further to comment on how Strainlabs Bolts perform in regards of tensile strength.
Strainlabs Embedded Systems Engineer Michael Fransson explains how Strainlabs Bolts cope with providing relevant and correct data in varying temperatures.
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