BOJCAS

Publications and Results

• BOJCAS Project Poster. Aerodays 2001, Hamburg, 29-31 January 2001. (pdf)


• BOJCAS Project Information Sheet. February 2003 (pdf)


• McCarthy, M. BOJCAS: Bolted Joints in Composite Aircraft Structures. Air and Space Europe No. 3/4, Vol. 3, pp. 139-142, 2001. (pdf)


• Lawlor, V.P, McCarthy, M.A., Stanley, W.F. Experimental Study on the Effects of Clearance on Single-Bolt, Single-Shear, Composite Bolted Joints. Journal of Plastics, Rubber and Composites, The Institute of Materials, London, UK, Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 405-411, 2002. (pdf)


• Lawlor, V.P, Stanley, W.F., McCarthy, M.A. Characterisation of damage development in single-shear bolted composite joints. Journal of Plastics, Rubber and Composites, The Institute of Materials, London, UK, Vol 31, No. 3, pp. 126-133, 2002. (pdf)


• McCarthy, M.A. Bolted joints in composite aircraft structures. Presentation held at the COMPOSIT Workshop on Joining and Assembling Technologies, Centro Ricerche Fiat, Turin, Italy, 11 April 2003. (pdf)


• McCarthy, M.A., Lawlor, V.P., Stanley W.F., McCarthy, C.T. Bolt-hole clearance effects and strength criteria in single-bolt, single-lap, composite bolted joints. Composites Science and Technology, Vol. 62, pp. 1415-1431, 2002. (pdf)


• McCarthy, M.A., McCarthy, C.T. Finite Element Analysis of the effects of Clearance on Single-Shear, Composite Bolted Joints. Journal of Plastics, Rubber and Composites, The Institute of Materials, London, UK, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2002, in-press. (pdf)


• Padhi, G.S., McCarthy M.A., McCarthy C.T. BOLJAT - A tool for designing composite bolted joints using three-dimensional finite element analysis. Composites, Part A, 33/11, pp. 1573-1584, 2003. (pdf)


• Papanikos, P., Tserpes, K.I amd Pantelakis, Sp. Modelling of fatigue damage progression and life of CFRP laminates (pdf)


• Perugini, P., Riccio, A. and Scaramuzzino, F. Three-Dimensional Progressive Damage Analysis of Composite Joints. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Civil and Structural Engineering Computing, Civil-Comp Press, 18-21 September 2001. (pdf)


• Riccio, A. and Scaramuzzino, F. Influence of damage onset and propagation on the tensile structural behaviour of protruding composite joints. Presented at: 4th GRACM COngress on Computational Mechanics, Patras, Greece, 27-29 June 2002. (pdf)


• Schön, J. Fatigue Life Prediction of Composite Bolted Joints with Bolt Failure. In: Fatigue 2002, Stockholm, Vol 2/5 pp. 1119-1126, June 2002. (pdf)


• Stanley, W.F.,McCarthy, M.A. ,Lawlor, V.P. Measurement of Load Distribution in Multi-Bolt, Composite Joints, in the presence of Varying Clearance. Journal of Plastics, Rubber and Composites, The Institute of Materials, London, UK, Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 412-418, 2002. (pdf)


• Tserpes, K.I., Papanikos, P. and Kermanidis, Th. Progressive Fatigue Damage Modelling of CFRP Laminates at the Mesoscale Level. (pdf)


• Volgers, P. Detailed 3D analysis of bolted joints in global shell structures. In: Proceedings of the 4th B2000 workshop, Ligerz, 24-25 October 2002. (pdf)

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