Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering 1 Automated Analysis and Failure Load Prediction of Bolted Composite Joints James Ainsworth 1 , Craig Collier*, Phil Yarrington 2 and Ryan Lucking 3 Collier Research Corp. Hampton, VA Automated analysis of bolted composite joints is essential to the design and analysis of modern aerospace vehicles. Recently, methods for coupling FEA to the bolted joint analysis code, BJSFM, have been incorporated into the HyperSizer® Software. Coupling between the FEM and the BJSFM analysis code permits analysis and sizing optimization of bolted joint configurations using the same FEM mesh. Presented in this paper is the bolted joint analysis of the NASA Composite Crew Module (CCM). Using this structure, a robust process is described for automatically extracting fastener loads for multiple load cases and computing bypass loads for the master FEM. © 2011 Collier Research Corporation. 1 Aerospace Structural Engineer, Collier Research, Hampton, Virginia; [email protected] *Senior Research Engineer, Collier Research, Hampton, Virginia; [email protected] 2 Senior Research Engineer, Collier Research, Hampton, Virginia; [email protected] 3 Aerospace Structural Engineer, Collier Research, Hampton, Virginia; [email protected]
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