Group effect and bearing capacity of multi-bolted connection for pultruded GFRP laminate

Shengjie Wang, Zhengwen Jiang, Shui Wan, Aiming Song, Jiantong Zhang, Key Laboratory for Damage Diagnosis of Eng Struct of Hunan Province, College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Key Laboratory for Wind and Bridge Engineering of Hunan Province, College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, School of Transportation, Southeast University, School of Civil Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Municipal Group Co

Journal of Composite Materials

Published online on September 26, 2025

Abstract

Journal of Composite Materials, Volume 60, Issue 13, Page 1217-1237, June 2026.
To further understand mechanical performance of the bolted connection for GFRP laminates under static tension load, axial tensile tests with parameters of number of bolts (n), end distance (Se), pitch spacing (Sp),pre-tightening torque (M), edge distance ...