The most important consideration is vibration resistance:
https://www.boltscience.com/pages/vibloose.htmShaking the joint in shear, the bolt should not come loose, or faster than some rate.
Some joints are, not only more important than others, but more prone to vibration. You don't want your wheels falling off, or pistons or engine head -- these get locking mechanisms, like the castle nut, or lockwire, or at least being torqued properly.
Clamping force and torque are important as well, particularly when optimum amounts are needed. Usually threads are designed for dry fitting, meaning the torque is calibrated for typical friction plus tension divided by the pitch slope (a screw is a ramp in revolution, after all). Using lubrication drastically reduces the friction and therefore torque required, and may reduce the vibration resistance.
It could well be preferable to go with a dry joint, over lubrication or anti-seize -- indeed rust might be a feature, not a bug. That last point kinda depends on how often they need to be serviced, how fast corrosion might happen, and if the risk of breaking fasteners is acceptable. So, lug nuts, kinda eh: there's 4+ of them (usually), so some redundancy there, but subject to vibration and salt spray so they're kind of important; but they might also be serviced every few months/years (depending if you're following a rotation cycle or not
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) so might not get too caked up in the mean time. Other frame components, suspension, control arms, are rarely serviced, but taking more time to do them on the rare occasion they need to, probably isn't a big deal.
Suspension items BTW, are usually mounted in shear, or pinned, so they can be attached surprisingly simply, with just one bolt say, even for something as critical as that. Well, shear is still the problem, the point, right, but evidently designed in such a way not to be a problem. For example, they might use relatively large bolts, so the shear slippage is greater than design peak force maybe. Control arms often have rubber bushings, which helps reduce peak forces, as does the tire itself.
Anyway, I'm just an EE, absolutely there are plenty of resources out there, from handbooks to textbooks. Lots of hard won experience out there in the ME-sphere, a couple books should do 'ya. Not... that I know which ones, but, there's a collection of linkages and slides and other mechanisms, that might also be of interest. Probably one for bolted, riveted and other kinds of fixed joints. Or, I forget how much of these is covered by Machinery's.
Tim