Research Article

Competitive Failure of Loosening and Fatigue of Bolts under Composite Excitation

Table 4

Analysis results for bolt competitive failure modes.

Transverse displacement amplitude (mm)Axial load amplitude (kN)ξ (mm/kN)Failure mode

>0.1Loosening
0.660.1Loosening
0.660.1Loosening
0.660.1Loosening
0.780.0875Loosening
0.780.0875Loosening
0.780.0875Loosening
1120.0833Loosening
1120.0833Loosening
0.560.0833Loosening
0.8100.08Loosening
0.8100.08Loosening
0.8100.08Loosening
0.790.0778Loosening
0.790.0778Loosening
0.790.0778Loosening
0.680.075Fatigue
0.680.075Critical
0.680.075Loosening
0.8120.0667Fatigue
0.8120.0667Fatigue
0.8120.0667Fatigue
0.914.40.0625Fatigue
0.914.40.0625Fatigue
0.914.40.0625Fatigue
0.812.80.0625Fatigue
0.812.80.0625Fatigue
0.812.80.0625Fatigue
0.711.20.0625Fatigue
0.711.20.0625Fatigue
0.711.20.0625Fatigue
<0.0625Fatigue