Dates and times:
October 20-24, 2025
Monday: 1pm - 6 pm CST
Tues - Thurs: 8am - 4pm CST
Friday: 8am - 11am CST
Overview
This 5-day course equips engineers, designers, and technical professionals with the essential knowledge and hands-on tools to understand, specify, assemble, and troubleshoot threaded fasteners and bolted joints, with a focus on dynamically loaded mechanical bolted joints and preventing failures in real-world scenarios. It combines core engineering concepts with practical demonstrations and group problem-solving, diving deep into fastener terminology, technology, and in-class design calculations and strategies. Participants learn to design reliable joints through case studies, in-class exercises, and demonstrations of preload scatter and relaxation. Although the VDI-2230 standard will often be referenced, the course will not provide a detailed presentation of this standard. The class will conclude with a group capstone project, a realistic bolted joint that applies many of the concepts, methods, and calculations covered during the class.
Target Audience
This course was developed for engineers or technical staff tasked with the design, specification, procurement, quality, or assembly of threaded fastened joints.
Prerequisites
This is an intermediate technical level course that includes equations that need to be solved with algebra. Individuals with some prior experience with fasteners and bolted joint design may find this course easier, but there is something everyone can learn from it.
In-Person or Online Learning
Students may choose to attend in person or via a live online stream concurrent with the in-person training. The in-person session will be held in the training facilities at Matrix Engineering Consultants, 12986 Valley View Road, Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55344.
Professional Development Hours (PDHs)
The 5-day in-person and online learning event is worth 28 PDHs.
Discount
15% discount for IFI members, existing clients, companies sending multiple students. Use code: DISCOUNT
