ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Buildings, Bridges, and Infrastructure
Broken Structural Bolt
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Published:2019
Abstract
Two bolts from the stressed structure of a church building that had broken during stressing were examined to establish the cause of fracture. The fracture of one of the first bolt occurred in a double-vee groove weld whose root was not completely welded. The second bolt had cracked outside of the weld seam closely under the head. Neither one had been particularly deformed before fracture. The composition of the head pieces corresponded approximately to manganese steel (Material No. 1 0845), a weldable construction steel with increased yield point and strength, while the shafts were made from Cr-Mo steel (Material...
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Member Sign InFriedrich Karl Naumann, Ferdinand Spies, Broken Structural Bolt, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Buildings, Bridges, and Infrastructure, ASM International, 2019, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.bldgs.c9001204
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