1.School of Mechanics and Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China;
2.China Railway 16st Bureau Group Road & Bridge Engineering Co., Ltd., Beijing 101500, China
Abstract:The bolted connection joints of transmission towers often experience loosening due to transverse cyclic loads, resulting in damage to the transmission towers. Currently, many single-bolt tests conducted on vibration test machines and finite element studies are not applicable to the actual working conditions of angle steel-bolt group joints due to bolt constraint issues. To address this problem, a refined bolt model considering thread incline is established in ABAQUS. The applicability of the finite element model is verified based on the results of fastener tests. The bolt model is then extended to complex single-limb, single-wrap, and double-wrap angle steel-bolt group joint models to analyze the loosening mechanism and pre-tension variation process of bolt group joints under transverse vibration loads. The analysis results show that under transverse cyclic loads, the pre-tension alternates between increasing and decreasing. The thread contact surface enters the slip state before the pressure surface of the bolt head. With an increase in the friction coefficient and pre-torque, the decreasing trend of pre-tension becomes smaller. With an increase in vibration amplitude, the decreasing trend of pre-tension becomes larger. The vibration frequency has a negligible impact on bolt loosening. The degree of bolt loosening in single-wrap and double-wrap joints gradually decreases from the outer side to the inner side. Applying preload will reduce the tendency of bolt loosening to some extent. The degree of loosening for double-limb single-packet joint bolts decreases by 16% to 23.24%, and for double-limb double-packet joint bolts, it decreases by 2.63% to 3.80%. Therefore, it is important to monitor the easily loosened bolt locations in actual engineering to ensure the load-bearing capacity of the joints.
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