Effect of bolt tightness on the behavior of composite joints

Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-51

  Nassar, Sayed A ^a   Virupaksha, Vinayshankar L ^a   Ganeshmurthy, Saravanan ^a  

^a Oakland University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bearing damage; Composite joints; Double bolted composite joints; Single lap joint

Indexed keywords

BEARING DAMAGE; COMPOSITE JOINTS; DOUBLE BOLTED COMPOSITE JOINTS; SINGLE LAP JOINT;

BOLT TIGHTENING; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DAMAGE DETECTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

BOLTED JOINTS;

EID: 34248214243     PISSN: 00949930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2389000     Document Type: Article

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