Mechanical property and failure mechanism of 3D Carbon-Carbon braided composites bolted joints under unidirectional tensile loading

Materials and Design

Volumn 65, Issue , 2015, Pages 243-253

  Tang, Yuling ^a,b   Zhou, Zhengong ^a   Pan, Shidong ^a   Xiong, Jian ^a   Guo, Ying ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HEILONGJIANG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bolted joints; Carbon Carbon braided composites; Failure mechanism; Mechanical property; Unidirectional tension

Indexed keywords

BOLTED JOINTS; BOLTS; CARBON; CESIUM; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NUMERICAL METHODS; TENSILE STRESS;

BEARING FAILURES; BRAIDED COMPOSITES; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; FAILURE MECHANISM; JOINT CONFIGURATION; JOINTS STRUCTURE; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; UNIDIRECTIONAL TENSION;

FAILURE (MECHANICAL);

EID: 84918564256     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2014.08.073     Document Type: Article

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