Integral Mechanical Attachment: A Resurgence of the Oldest Method of Joining

by Robert W. Messler

Overview

Integral Mechanical Attachment, highlights on one of the world’s oldest technologies and makes it new again. Think of buttons and toggles updated to innovative snaps, hooks, and interlocking industrial parts. Mechanical fasteners have been around as long as mankind, but manufacturers of late have been re-discovering their quick, efficient and fail proof advantages when using them as interlocking individual components as compared with such traditional means of joining materials like welding, soldering, gluing and using nuts bolts, rivets and other similar devices. For many years, it has been virtually impossible to find a single-source reference that provides an overview of the various categories of fastening systems and their various applications. Design engineers should find this book to be an invaluable source of detailed, illustrated information on how such fasteners work, and how they can save time and money. Students, too, will find this book to be extremely useful for courses in mechanical design, machine design, product development and other related areas where fastening and joining subjects are taught. This will be the first reference book to come along in many years that will fully illustrate the major classes of integral mechanical fasteners, replete with examples of typical assembly and ideas and suggestions for further research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750679657
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	06/05/2006
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 10.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

PrefaceChapter 1: Introduction to Integral Mechanical AttachmentChapter 2: Classification of Integral Mechanical AttachmentChapter 3: Rigid Integral Mechanical Attachments or InterlocksChapter 4: Elastic (Snap-fit) Integral Mechanical Attachments or InterlocksChapter 5: Plastic (Formed-in) Integral Mechanical Attachments or InterlocksChapter 6: Classification RevisitedChapter 7: Metal Attachments Chapter 8: Polymer Attachments Chapter 9: Wood AttachmentsChapter 10: Cement, Concrete, and Masonry-unit AttachmentsChapter 11: Glass and Ceramic AttachmentsChapter 12: Mechanical Electrical ConnectionsChapter 13: The Future of Integral Mechanical Attachment: Where from Here'Index

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First reference of its kind to address one of the most fundamental of all methods for joining separate manufactured components: built-in (integral) mechanical fasteners.