Open AccessChanging bolt arrangement and their effect on bearing capacity of single shear connections
Author(s) -
Faris A. Jawad,
Hasanain M. Dheyab,
Heydar A. Jasim
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/888/1/012017
Subject(s) - structural engineering , rectangle , bearing capacity , square (algebra) , shear (geology) , joint (building) , diamond , materials science , bearing (navigation) , connection (principal bundle) , bolted joint , composite material , engineering , finite element method , geometry , computer science , mathematics , artificial intelligence
In steel structures, bolted joints are used to connect structural elements. Due to the ease of its making, the square and rectangle arrangement of bolts are the prevalent pattern in these structural joints. To investigate the effect of changing the arrangement of bolts on the bearing capacity of single shear joint, square, circular and diamond are the patterns of bolts that have been chosen in this study. Nine specimens represent all these configurations experimentally have been tested under tension load. The results indicated that the highest bearing capacity of a single shear connection could be achieved using a square arrangement of bolts. While stresses could not be equally distributed around holes in circular and diamond pattern specimens of the same connection.