Optimize Bolted Joint Life with Cetim-Cobra to Improve Sustainability

Speaker: Mathieu Buard, Calculation Engineer at Cetim

Improving an assembly's lifetime is a sure way to diminish environmental impact: less replacement or repair is a key part of sustainability.

Bolted joint optimization is often underestimated but may lead to great improvement: the right design and tightening offers more efficiency to the assembly performance and Cetim-Cobra helps users to define and compute bolted joints according to VDI 2230 or NF E 25-030-2 standards. The analytical calculations provide fast results that allow many iterations to find an optimized joint and tightening setting.

This presentation shows how fast a computation can be and how results are highlighted to find the weak points users need to change to validate its assembly.