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Bolted joints in glass-reinforced aluminium (Glare) and other hybrid fibre metal laminates (FML)

Book Contributions
Calvin Rans
in Composite joints and connections: Principles, modelling and testing, P. Camanho and L. Tong, Editors. Woodhead Publishing Ltd: Cambridge, 2011
Publication year: 2011

Abstract

Fibre Metal Laminates (FMLs) are a family of hybrid metallic-polymer matrix composite materials with superior fatigue and damage tolerance behaviour. Although technically a composite material, they share many behaviour features more in common with their metallic constituents. This chapter will introduce the FML material concept and discuss the static and fatigue design considerations needed in the design of bolted FML joints.