Journal
COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
Volume 215, Issue -, Pages 1-12Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2019.01.091
Keywords
Micro-bolt; Repair; Delamination; Buckling
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- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Science and ICT [NRF-2017R1A5A1015311]
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Repair of a composite laminate with delamination using micro-bolts is studied parametrically. The effects on compressive buckling load of delamination crack length, bolt material, bolt diameter and arrangement, and bolt-laminate clearance are considered. For 45- and 65-mm crack lengths, buckling load recovery rates using brass bolts are 90% and 73%, respectively. Using steel increases the rate by 6.6% compared to the intact specimen. Tests are performed fixing the number of steel bolts for bolt diameters of 0.6, 1.0, and 1.2 mm. The buckling load recovery rate using 1.2- versus 0.6-mm bolts increases by 6.8%. Finite element analysis confirms the effect of the bolt-laminate gap: 27% larger buckling load for no clearance than for a 0.1-mm gap. 18% higher buckling load, which is 97% of intact-specimen buckling load, is obtained for a 1.2-mm-diameter bolt repair by gluing bolts and holes and then tightening them compared with using bolts alone.
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