Sustainability analysis of Bolted Joints through strength evaluation

Threaded fasteners, including all varieties of bolts, make our industrial, commercial, and even civil worlds possible, by providing simple, economic means to join an infinite variety of small parts together to create such large and useful objects as automobiles, airplanes, buildings, plows, looms, and printing presses. The vehicles used for heavy engineering applications often are large and most of it connected using bolted joints. These vehicles are used in constructions, demolitions or recycling and underground Mining operations. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the structural durability of joint considering the Slip factor and Shear factor. The effect of protective paintings on the parts that are connected is studied in the analysis. After finalizing the bolt design, the CAD model of the frame is obtained and FE model is created. FE model is created using the HyperMesh tool. The FE model after completion is given in Abaqus software for analysis. The computerized software facilitates for the quick design and FE model of the frame and gets the required results. The results obtained in Abaqus are taken and plotted in graphs and checked for failure. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.