When asked, most engineers would probably tell you that bolts aren’t meant to bend. But that didn’t stop one California professor from developing the “Flexible Fastener”, a product designed to solve a very specific problem: while traditional fasteners are ideal for handling axial forces, those same bolts can often fall short when subjected to simultaneous shear forces.(…)
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