Bearing stresses in bolted composite joints with different contact interactions

• Main Author: Ahmad, Hilton
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Engg Journals Publications 2016
• Subjects: TA401-492 Materials of engineering and construction. Mechanics of materials
• Online Access: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3834/1/AJ%202016%20%2810%29.pdf; http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3834/

In a bolted joint, it has been shown to be better to model the real contact between bolt and hole than to fix the boundary of the hole edge, a practice used by most previous researchers. Master-slave interaction was implemented in ABAQUS to simulate full contact conditions. Stress distributions were...