Designers parallel their power supplies to increase system power output or to provide fault tolerance. In this column, Contributing Editor Tom Curatolo discusses various techniques for load sharing ...

In some projects, we need to deliver more power than a single power supply can provide, and in this situation we can use steering Schottky diodes to provide load balancing (Figure 1). In this ...

Passive current sharing is a method of paralleling the outputs of two or more power supplies or dc-dc converters so that they share the load near equally. This approach has strong appeal, because it ...

The need often arises to supply more current to a load than the output current rating of an available power supply. At such times it may be possible to connect two or more supplies in parallel in ...

“Structural Properties of Bolted Joints,” Machine Design, Feb. 18, 2010, p. 44. Detailed free-body diagrams of bolted joints can be found in Juvinall and Marshcek, Fundamentals of Machine Component ...