Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical EngineeringCongress and Exposition, November 5-10, 2000, Orlando, Florida.Collection of 15 full-length, peer-reviewed technical papers on thefollowing major topic areas: Adhesive joints; Adhesive and boltedconnections; Composite materials and components. The interestingtopic of bonded-shrink-fitted joints is covered this year alongwith the technologically important topic of bolted connections.Coverage of the latter includes concepts such as interfacestiffness, which is attributed to surface roughness; it is shownthat the presence of interface stiffness lowers the ratio ofdesired clamping force to initial tension in bolted joints. @By:Erol Sancaktar