PSI - Issue 8

E. Armentani et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 8 (2018) 137–153 / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2017) 000–000 Author name

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a

c

b

Fig. 23. (a) Contact status along the lateral surface of bolt’s shank; (b) contact pressure and (c) friction stress

acting on these surfaces

(all for an

applied external load of 3000 N).

Fig. 24. Effect of the yield limits of the adhesive layer on the l

oad transferred by the bolt vs. the external tensile load.

Also the value of the preload influences the the load transferred by the bolt. Sensitivity analysis was made with reference to (Fig. 25).

transferred load: a greater value of the preload caused a reduction of preload values of 500 N and 5000 N