The characteristics of contact interfaces such as the distribution uniformity of the contact pressure and the effective contact area play a crucial role in engineering equipment. To investigate the influences of the variable material stiffness optimization (VMSO) design on the contact characteristics of the contact interfaces in an assembly, an heuristic-based VMSO algorithm is developed in this paper. A bi-objective function is defined by including both the distribution uniformity of the contact pressure and the effective contact area. A single bolted joint model is adopted as a design example. The results indicate that optimizing the stiffness of the materials around the contact interface is an effective approach to enhance the distribution uniformity of the contact pressure, increase the effective contact area and decrease the maximum contact pressure. Furthermore, the improvement effectiveness provided by the proposed variable stiffness design is better than that provided by the traditional variable thickness design.
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