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PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES-PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITESI MUHENDISLIK BILIMLERI DERGISI, vol.26, no.4, pp.613-619, 2020 (ESCI)
In this study, in order to determine the tensile strength of bolted laminated composite plates with high fidelity, failure analyses were performed by applying progressive damage model. Progressive damage finite element model was built using ANSYS APDL. Finite element failure analyses were performed using Hashin's failure criteria. Results of the present study were compared with the experimental data and very consistent results were obtained. Additionally, changing the plate width/ hole diameter ratio (W/D) between 2-4 and edge distance/hole diameter ratio (E/D) between 1-4, the effects of geometric parameters on the load carrying capacity of the composite plate were investigated and maximum tensile failure loads were determined. For W/D and E/D ratios equal to Z failure propagated towards the free end of the plate showing shear failure mode. For W/D and E/D ratios greater than Z bearing failure mode occurred. For [0(2)/90(2)](s), configuration no net-tension failure mode occurred in the composite plate and for W/D and E/D ratios equal to 3 maximum bearing strength was achieved.