AN ANALYTICAL TOOL TO PREDICT LOAD DISTRIBUTION OF MULTI-BOLT SINGLE-LAP THICK LAMINATE JOINTS

摘要

With the increasing demand of energy and environmental protection, composite materials have been extensively used in aeronautic structures, especially in the primary load components, due to its weight-saving potential. Therefore, the section of some composite structures could be much thicker than before. Thick-section composites are ones where the effect of geometry, material constituents, lamination scheme, processing and service loading exhibit three dimensional states of stress.