Bolted joints can have a significant impact on product reliability, safety, serviceability, and long-term performance. Matrix provides specialized bolted joint engineering services to help customers properly design, analyze, validate, and troubleshoot threaded fastener systems.

Our engineers combine analytical methods, simulation, physical testing, and practical product experience to evaluate joint behavior and determine appropriate fastening strategies. Support can begin during initial product design, when specifications and joint requirements are being established, or later when customers are experiencing loosening, preload loss, fatigue, assembly variation, or field failures.

Matrix can also support corrective action development and validation, helping customers move beyond identifying a fastener problem to implementing a reliable solution.

Capabilities include:

• Torque-Tension Testing Services
• VDI 2230-Based Bolted Joint Analysis
• Fastener Loosening Solutions
• FEA Modeling of Complex Bolted Joint Systems
• Failure Investigations
• Strain-Gauged Bolt Testing
• Assembly, Service & Field Issue Resolution
• Fastener Specification Consulting
• Product Validation & Testing
• Field & Lab Data Acquisition
• Torque-to-Yield Testing
• Specialized Test System Design