• Structural properties of bolted joints depend on bolt and clamped-member stiffnesses. • Clamped members can be treated as a sleeve or hollow cylinder. Sound designs of bolted joints rely on a good ...
News: engineering firm Arup has produced prototype 3D-printed steel construction joints that could be used to create more efficient structures. Arup says it has produced a new design method for ...
A problem facing architects when designing complex three-dimensional structures lies in their joints, which must be strong enough to take the loads and vector forces applied by the structure, yet ...