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Titanium bolts replace steel on Airbus A380 tail plane.(Welding/Joining)
Advanced Materials & Processes, October, 2004
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Titanium MaxiBolt Plus blind bolts from Textron Fastening Systems, Santa Ana, Calif., are replacing stainless steel bolts specified in the original design to reduce weight by 8.5 kg(18.7 lb) in the carbon fiber vertical tail plane section of the Airbus A380 airliner scheduled to enter service in 2006.
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The MaxiBolt Plus blind fastening system allows bolts of three different sizes to be installed with a single pulling head. It produces a footprint with a large diameter that distributes the bearing load of the joint over a wide area of the blind side of the composite component. This ...
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