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Quantitative Relationship Between Sliding-Generated Acoustic Emission and Friction Conditions at Bolted Joint Interfaces

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Bolted joints are widely used in various engineering structures. The bolted joint may become loosening under long-term oscillating load, and cause reciprocating friction between the contact interfaces. Acoustic emission (AE) is a phenomenon of rapid release of transient elastic waves, which will be generated continuously during the reciprocating friction. The friction conditions will affect the characteristics of the contact interface and the related AE signals. Therefore, analyzing the quantitative relationship between friction conditions and AE signal is significant for applying AE technique in bolt loosening monitoring. However, researches on the relationship between AE Vrms and friction operating parameters are mostly focused on rotating machineries currently, whether the obtained conclusions are suitable for bolted joints is not clear. This paper finds that the commonly used quantitative relationship between the AE Vrms and friction operating parameters is not suitable for bolted joint structures by comparing the theoretical and experimental AE Vrms. The relationship is then modified through exponential parameter fitting and verified using the same experiments in this paper. The results show that the modified equation can accurately describe the quantitative relationship between the AE Vrms and the friction operating parameters, thus revealing the mechanism of acoustic emission signals generated during the gross-slip.

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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12072268) and Innovation Foundation for Doctor Dissertation of Northwestern Polytechnical University (No. CX2024040).

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  1. School of Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China

    Jiaying Sun, Dongwu Li, Huiyi Yang & Chao Xu

  2. Yangtze River Delta R&D Institute, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Suzhou, 215400, China

    Huiyi Yang & Chao Xu

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Jiaying Sun: Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Software, Investigation, Writing - Original Draft. Dongwu Li: Conceptualization, Methodology. Huiyi Yang: Methodology, Supervision. Chao Xu: Project administration, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing - Review & Editing.

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Sun, J., Li, D., Yang, H. et al. Quantitative Relationship Between Sliding-Generated Acoustic Emission and Friction Conditions at Bolted Joint Interfaces. Tribol Lett 72, 65 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-024-01866-0

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