T. Nadabe, M. Nishikawa, T. Nakamura, T. Takeda
24th Annual Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites 2009 and 1st Joint Canadian-American Technical Conference on Composites 2009年
This study investigated the damage evolution mechanism in bearing failure of CFRP bolted joints, using both experiments and three-dimensional finite element analysis. First, we conducted the experiment of the bearing failure in bolted joints of CFRP laminates, and observed the damage evolution to the fracture. Kink bands spread in each 0-deg ply, and shear cracks also spread over all plies. Moreover, the bearing strength of bolted joints depends on lateral clamping force, which suppresses the out-of-plane deformation of the laminates. Therefore the bearing strength of bolted joints is closely related to the fiber kinking damage, which is related to the out-ofplane deformation of the laminates. To understand the underlying mechanism of these experimental results, a finite element model was constructed for the simulation of the damage evolution in bolted joints of CFRP laminates. In this model, the fiber kinking damage is addressed by the criterion including the lateral normal stress, in addition to the other in-plane damage. The simulated results well reproduced the damage areas observed in experiments. According to the results, a load drop is caused by kinking onset, and while the load increases slowly the kinking grows gradually. Repeated load drops in the experimental results are caused by repeated kinking spread. As a result, the bearing strength of bolted joints is closely related to both the initiation and the propagation of the fiber kinking damage. In addition, the relationship between the lateral clamping force and the bearing strength of bolted joints was discussed, based on the simulated results. The lateral clamping force suppresses the kinking onset, and lifts the bearing strength of bolted joints.