Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations waross on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by darrenm

  1. darrenm

    Repost: Induced bending moment in a thick shim

    Regarding shims, pretty much all you need to know is found in the following two references [1] “Airframe Stress Analysis and Sizing” M.C.Y Niu 2nd ed. Section 9.11 and page 685. [2] “Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures”, E.F.Bruhn. Section D3.5. These include analysis...
  2. darrenm

    Hi-lok Holes

    I have hole sizes for hilok bolts from the Boeing Liaison Handbook (commercial), typical installation in Aluminium is in a transition fit hole except in fatigue critical areas such as at lower wing joints. (in 3 years of liaison engineering at Boeing I only specified a non transition fit once)...

Part and Inventory Search