
Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
The influence of the bolt grade on its behaviour under combined
tension and shear
A. Renner & J. Lange
Institute for Steel Structures and Materials Mechanics, TU Darmstadt, Germany
ABSTRACT: The rule to verify bolts under a combined load of tension and shear has been changed with the
introduction of the new Eurocode. The new rule is by far more conservative than the former known functions
from national standards and it stays to question, how this change happened and how bolts under a combined
load ...