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Experimental And Numerical Analysis Of Structures With Bolted Joints Subjected To Impact Load, Kumarswamy K. Nakalswamy May 2010

Experimental And Numerical Analysis Of Structures With Bolted Joints Subjected To Impact Load, Kumarswamy K. Nakalswamy

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The aim of this study is to analyze the transient behavior of structures with bolted joints subjected to impact or shock loads using experimental methods and Finite Element Analysis (FEA). Various factors that affect the response of the bolted joint structures for shock loading were studied, such as damping, preload, intensity of impact load and type of FE modeling. The objective of this work was to develop computational modeling procedures that provide structural analysts an improved physics-based shock model for combat vehicles focusing mainly on shock transmission across bolted joints. There is only a limited amount of published literature describing …