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Aerospace & Defense Industry
Fastening Solutions
Whether designed for personal aircraft, jumbo jets, space shuttles, or a long list of military applications, STANLEY Engineered Fastening provides the highest-quality engineered threaded fastening solutions to the aerospace and defense industries. Products range from fasteners to thread-cutting or thread-forming tools to assembly products.
To survive the vibration and high temperatures of launch, we require the most reliable locking engagement thread. Screws must remain tight without opportunity for retightening. With conventional threading, however, screws loosened up and backed out under testing. The Spiralock thread form retained a tight seal at 300° C. Once torqued down properly, the screws stayed put in the threads, which helped us meet our flight schedule.
Dan Harpold, Scientist
Aircraft
Aircraft engineering poses unique challenges from avionics, printed circuit boards, sensors, actuator valves, and auxiliary power units to airframe, braking systems, landing gear, cargo container equipment and engines. Components are often required to withstand extreme shock, G-force, vibration, and thermal stress, making it crucial that the selected fasteners are of the highest quality. STANLEY Engineered Fastening offers products, available in a wide variety of materials, coatings, and styles, providing innovative and reliable solutions that fit challenging aerospace applications.
Armaments
When designing axles, frames, chassis, and other military vehicle components, it's critical that they are securely attached since failure in the field could endanger human life and create serious part replacement issues. Similarly, missiles, weapons, and naval warfare must have all of their threaded joints firmly fastened to ensure their successful deployment and operation. STANLEY Engineered Fastening manufactures top-quality innovative fastening products that can perform under the most extreme weather and terrain conditions, providing our troops with reliable equipment.
Avionics
Sophisticated electronic aircraft equipment, including control, monitoring, communication, navigation, weather, and anti-collision systems requires sophisticated fastening equipment to guarantee flawless performance of all electronic devices and uninterrupted communication between the aircraft and ground control. STANLEY Engineered Fastening offers a variety of innovative high quality fasteners in many sizes and materials to accommodate the most complex electronic assemblies.
Satellite & Spacecraft
To withstand the vibration and high temperature extremes induced during rocket launch, atmospheric re-entry, and the sub-zero chill of space, design engineers require the most reliable fastening components, which are resistant to thermal expansion and contraction. The fasteners also have to remain tight without the opportunity for servicing. STANLEY Engineered Fastening offers a comprehensive selection of fastening products to ensure accurate performance of space satellites, probes, rockets and other space vehicles.
A fastener may seem like a small thing but can make the difference between aircraft power being online or off. Prevailing torque nuts can gall or freeze on threaded bolts during installation, leading to intermittent power availability if the nuts' rundown torque exceeds the final torque limit before clamping. Spiralock nuts not only meet the required clamping force when exposed to 50 Gs of vibration and 200 Gs of shock load, but also maintain this performance for thousands of hours of operational use.
Darin Morman, Manager of Generator Engineering
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