Abstract：Experimental work was carried out on the tensile performance of combined adhesively bonded and bolted (a single row) joints for woven composites. The failure forms of the joint were analyzed with 4mm and 6mm diameter bolt hole respectively. A 3-D damage propagation model was established including non-linear touch problem to simulate the mechanical performance of the joints and the FEM results were matched well with the experimental results. It is shown that the adhesive joint can be reinforced with mechanical joint by the shared distribution of applied load to the bolts. The larger the bolt diameter, the more effective is the reinforcement. The analysis of tensile properties of adhesively bonded joint with more than one row of bolts in mechanical joint poses great difficulty and more precautions must be taken for its application. The study results and the analysis method in this paper can provide some relevant reference and technological support for combined adhesive and bolted joint design.
2011, Vol. 32 
