25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-4.3.3

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF BOLTED COMPOSITE JOINTS WITH SHIMMING MATERIAL

P. Caracciolo, G. Kuhlmann
Airbus, Germany

Keywords: Bolted composite joints, damage, progressive fracture, uncertainties, reliability

The aim of the present paper is to discuss and to define methodologies for reliability analysis of bolted joint elements in composite structures. A probabilistic failure method is used to simulate progressive fracture and the scatter of the response of bolted composite joints.

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