Hardware developed for latches and enclosures easily adapts to give lighting fixtures that now use LEDs and other light sources. Lighting fixtures are one of the broadest classes of appliances—one ...

In my previous column, I discussed double-shear testing of a single fastener (see “Editor's Picks,” at right). But fasteners also can be subjected to single-shear loading — our subject this time — and ...

Mechanical fasteners have been used to join wood and metal plates for hundreds of years. Because mechanical fastening of composite material plates is a much more recent development, most of the ...