Fiber Reinforced Plastics/Composites ›› 2018, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (8): 12-18.

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BOLTED JOINTS CONNECTION STRENGTH & DAMAGE EVOLUTION ANALYSIS BASED ON FIBER MAPPING

NIE Xin, MO Cheng-jie*, YAO Wei, XIONG Dong-jian   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacture for Vehicle Body, Hunan University,Changsha 410082, China
  • Received:2018-01-18 Online:2018-08-28 Published:2018-08-28

Abstract: The main types of the bolt connection strength and the damage failure of the injection molding glass fiber reinforced composites (GFRP) in the body structure have been studied. Mechanical properties tests of the PA6 GF30 materials have been carried out, based on Multicontinuum materials decomposition theory, fiber mapping and fitting materials curve to obtain their simulation parameters. Compared with the results of simulation and experiment, it showed that based on material decomposition, fiber mapping, curve fitting of the simulation analysis method, we can effectively solve the problems between moldflow analysis and structure analysis continuously and accurately. Based on the accurate mapping information of GFRP, the bolt connection strength and damage failure modes between GFRP were studied, and comprehensive studies of E/D, W/D and T/D on the strength of bolt connection were performed. The results show that the main forms of connection failure are tensile failure and extrusion failure, and the factors that affect the connection performance are W/D, T/D and E/D. With the increase of the E/D and the W/D, the bolt connection strength increases, but the ratio no longer increases after a certain number, which is mainly manifested as the extrusion failure. Increasing the T/D can significantly increase the bolt connection strength.

Key words: GFRP, damage analysis, materials decomposition, fiber mapping

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