APPLICABILITY OF PRETENSIONED BOLTED JOINTS INCLUDING DIFFERENT CONTACT FACES

Abstract

 In frictional type pretensioned bolted joints, one specification is employed for contact faces in each joint in principle. Meanwhile, in some cases such as protection works of existing bridges and fabrication of box girders made of weathering steel without coating, introduction of usage of different contact faces in one joint might often allow labor-saving and accelerated works.

 In present study, bolted joints including different contact faces are defined as a hybrid faying surfaces joint, and 33 bolted joint specimens were used in bolt pretension relaxation test and slip test. This paper reports these results and compares degree of pretension loss and slip resistance in hybrid faying surface joints with homogeneous (i.e. normal) joints. Finally, also on the basis of previous research, the applicability and slip coefficient for designing of hybrid faying surfaces joints are discussed regarding.