Sample Publications - FAJRI - Oakland University

The following are some of the recent journal publications of the FAJRI team:

Housari, B. A., and Nassar, S.A., “Effect of Thread and Bearing Friction Coefficients on the Vibration-Induced Loosening of Threaded Fasteners Under Cyclic Transverse Loads”, 2007, ASME Journal of Vibrations and Acoustics-ASME Transactions, Vol. 129, pp. 484-494.
Nassar, S.A. and Housari, B. A., “Study of the Effect of Hole Clearance and Thread Fit on the Self-Loosening of Threaded Fasteners Due to Cyclic Transverse Loads”, 2007, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 129, Issue 6, pp. 586-594.
Nassar, Sayed A. and Alkelani, A.A., “Elastic Interaction and Creep Relaxation in Bolted Gasketed Joints”, 2006, ASME Journal of Pressure Vessels Technology, Vol. 128, pp. 394-401.
Nassar, S.A. and Matin, P., “Clamp Load Loss Due to Fastener Elongation Beyond its Elastic Limit”, 2006, ASME Journal of Pressure Vessels Technology, Vol. 128, Nov. 2006, pp. 379-387.
Nassar, Sayed A. and Veeram, Aditya B., “Ultrasonic Control of Fastener Tightening using Variable Wave Speed”, 2006, ASME Journal of Pressure Vessels Technology, Vol. 128, pp. 427-432.
Nassar, Sayed A. and Housari, B. A., “Effect of Thread Pitch on the Self-Loosening of Threaded Fasteners Due to Cyclic Transverse Loads”, 2006, ASME Journal of Pressure Vessels Technology, Vol. 128, pp. 590-598.
Nassar, S.A. and Matin, P. H., and G. C. Barber, “Thread Friction in Bolted Joints”, 2005, Journal of Pressure Vessels Technology- ASME Transactions, Vol. 127, pp. 387-393.
Nassar, S.A., El-Khiamy, H., Barber, G.C., Zou, Q., Sun, T.S., “Bearing and Thread Friction in Fasteners”, 2005, Journal of Tribology, ASME Transactions, Vol. 127, pp. 263-272.
Nassar, S.A., Barber, G.C., and Zuo, D., “Bearing Friction Torque in Bolted Joints”, 2005, STLE Tribology Transactions, Vol. 48, pp. 69-75.
Nassar, Sayed A., and Matin, P. H., “Non-Linear Strain Hardening Model for Predicting Clamp Load Loss in Bolted Joints”, 2006, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol.128, Issue 6, pp.1328-1336.
Nassar, S.A., Andrews, K.T., Kurk, S., and Shillor, M., “Modeling and Simulation of a Bonded Rod”, 2005, Journal for Mathematical and Computer Modeling, Vol. 42, pp. 553-572.
Yang, X. and Nassar, S. A., “Constitutive Modeling of Time-Dependent Cyclic Straining for Solder Alloy 63Sn-37Pb”, 2005, Journal of Mechanics of Materials, vol. 37, pp. 801-814.
Zou, Q., Sun, T.S., Nassar, S., Barber, G.C., El-Khiamy, H., “Contact Mechanics Approach to Determine Effective Radius in Bolted Joints”, 2005, Journal of Tribology-ASME Transactions, Vol. 127, pp. 30-36.
Nassar, S.A. and Virupaksha, V.L., Ganeshmurthy, S., “Effect of Bolt Tightening and Joint Material on the Strength and Behavior of Composite Joints”, 2007, ASME Journal of Pressure Vessels Technology, Vol. 129, pp. 43-51.
Nassar, S. A. and Matin, P.H., “Cumulative Clamp Load Loss Due to a Fully Reversed Cyclic Load Acting on an Initially Yielded Joint System”, 2006, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 129, pp. 421-433.
Alkelani, A.A., Housari, B., Nassar, S.A., “A Proposed Model for Evaluating Gasket Creep Relaxation in Bolted Flanges”, 2007, in press, Journal of Pressure Vessels Technology-ASME Transactions.
Nassar, S.A. and Meng, A., “Optical Monitoring of Bolt Tightening Using 3-D Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry (ESPI)”, 2007, ASME Journal of Pressure Vessels Technology, Vol. 129, pp. 89-95.