CERN-THESIS-2018-006 17/02/2018 Jørgen Apeland Application of FE-analysis in Design and Verification of Bolted Joints According to VDI 2230 at CERN MSc Thesis Genève, February 2018 Supervisor: Torgeir Welo, NTNU Antonio Lafuente Mazuecos, CERN Luca Dassa, CERN Norwegian University of Science and Technology Faculty of Engineering Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering