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TY - JOUR
T1 - Thermal preconditioning study for bolted tension joints in pultruded GRP plate
AU - Turvey, Geoffrey
AU - Wang, Ping
PY - 2007/2/1
Y1 - 2007/2/1
N2 - Thermocouples have been used to monitor the time versus temperature rise response at the centre of four sizes of pultruded GRP plate used in bolted tension joints in order to demonstrate that all of the GRP plate is at the required temperature prior to testing the joints to failure. A simple one-dimensional finite element (FE) model has also been developed and used to predict time versus temperature rise response. The experimental and numerical results confirm that a thermal preconditioning period of 30 min duration is more than adequate for all of the pultruded GRP plates to achieve the actual test temperatures of 40, 60 and 80 °C.
AB - Thermocouples have been used to monitor the time versus temperature rise response at the centre of four sizes of pultruded GRP plate used in bolted tension joints in order to demonstrate that all of the GRP plate is at the required temperature prior to testing the joints to failure. A simple one-dimensional finite element (FE) model has also been developed and used to predict time versus temperature rise response. The experimental and numerical results confirm that a thermal preconditioning period of 30 min duration is more than adequate for all of the pultruded GRP plates to achieve the actual test temperatures of 40, 60 and 80 °C.
KW - Temperature
KW - Pultrusions
KW - GRP
KW - Joints
KW - Plates
U2 - 10.1016/j.compstruct.2005.08.023
DO - 10.1016/j.compstruct.2005.08.023
M3 - Journal article
VL - 77
SP - 509
EP - 513
JO - Composite Structures
JF - Composite Structures
SN - 0263-8223
IS - 4
ER -