Abstract: A novel principal stress-based high cycle fatigue (HCF) model is proposed for preloaded threaded fasteners under cyclic tensile-shear loads. The model uses the fastener principal stress amplitude in order to construct a ...

Abstract: Experimental and finite element techniques are used for investigating the effect of cyclic thermal loading on the clamp load decay in preloaded singlelap bolted joints that are made of multimaterial lightweight alloys. ...