A New Approach for Determining Bolt Load of Eccentric Bolted Joints

Abstract:

Bolt load in a bolted connection directly influence the safety of a design in regard to both static and fatigue loading as well as in the prevention of separation in the connection. When the separating force is applied off the bolt center, although the materials for the bolted joint remain in the linear elastic range, the interface contact area between the clamped plates is sensitive to both the magnitude and the location of the separating force. This often causes nonlinear variation of the bolt load, the deformation etc. An analytical model is proposed to obtain the expression for the nonlinear bolt load under a separating service load. Finite element modeling is used for evaluating the accuracy of the proposed model.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 668-669)
• Pages: 115-118
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.668-669.115
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Xi Wang Wang*, Xiao Yang Li, Xiao Guang Wang, Lin Lin Zhang
• Keywords: Bolt Load, Bolted Joint, Joint Members, Nonlinear

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