#fatigue

esk8 Structures / Bolts Preload – The Most Important Thing You’re Already Doing

April 10, 2020April 9, 2020 / Dani

Bolts should be stressed by design in order to avoid bending stresses, premature fatigue failure and rattling. Preloading the bolts is the simplest and the best thing that you can…

esk8 Structures / Fatigue – how to break your structure below the failure stress

September 19, 2019September 19, 2019 / Dani

This will complicate your structure design. But fatigue failure is important. Can you break your structure without reaching the failure stress? Wait, what? Did I fudge you on…