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Fatigue of screw threads.

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Jun 29, 2004
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I need to locate information regarding the effect of the mis-alignement of screw threads on the fatigue life of the bolt.
 
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Mechanical Engineers Handbook by Myer Kutz covers this under perpendicularity, and basically it says that the fatigue life can be seriously affected. For example, a 2 degree error reduces the fatigue life by 79%. They obtained their information from a report done by SPS Technologies.
 
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