Bolt torque discussion

Duane said

One of the previous posters said to think of a bolt or stud as a spring. If you were trying achieve a certain amount of tension from that spring, a longer spring would need more stretching before it got to the same tension as a shorter spring.

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Yes, good analogy. Do you think this is what was being sought with the higher torque? ==> Achieving given amount of strain (stretch proportional to length), which directly relates to stress, which relates directly to tension. Just trying to close the circle on what that was about....