Comparative study of adhesive fatigue in aeronautical bonded joints: A numerical approach in the frequency domain

Author(s):  
Denys Marques ◽  
Marcelo L Ribeiro ◽  
Volnei Tita

The use of adhesively bonded structures has increased over the years, together with the development of composite materials. This work investigates a procedure for fatigue life prediction of an aeronautical bonded joint under random loads, in particular, the cohesive failure of the adhesive layer in a skin-to-stiffener bonded joint. The use of two different adhesives is investigated, and Dirlik’s method is employed to predict the stress response in the adhesive layer, from which the fatigue life is obtained. The effect of damping is also investigated, and it is shown that increases in damping result in higher fatigue life estimations.

2013 ◽  
Vol 467 ◽  
pp. 332-337
Author(s):  
Xiao Cong He

This paper describes some finite element combinations to analyse the mechanical behaviour of bonded joints. In finite element models five layers of solid elements were used across the adhesive layer in order to increase the accuracy of the results. The finite elements were refined gradually in steps from adherends to adhesive layer. In these models, most of the adherends and adhesive were modeled using solid brick elements but some solid triangular prism elements were used for a smooth transition. Comparisons are performed between different types of first-order element combinations in order to find a suitable model to predict the mechanical behaviour of adhesively bonded joints.


2011 ◽  
Vol 189-193 ◽  
pp. 3427-3430
Author(s):  
Xiao Cong He

This paper deals with the stress distribution in adhesively bonded joints with rubbery adhesives. The 3-D finite element analysis (FEA) software was used to model the joint and predict the stress distribution along the whole joint. The FEA results indicated that there are stress discontinuities existing in the stress distribution within the adhesive layer and adherends at the lower interface and the upper interface of the boded section for most of the stress components. The FEA results also show that the stress field in the whole joint is dominated by the normal stresses components S11, S33 and the shear stress component S13. The features and variations of these critical stresses components are discussed.


2012 ◽  
Vol 217-219 ◽  
pp. 2154-2158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Guang Zhang ◽  
Zhen Zhang ◽  
De Quan Ma ◽  
Yong Hai Wen ◽  
Shao Bo Gong ◽  
...  

The response of adhesively bonded lap-joint under transverse impact was investigated by means of DYTRAN software. A finite element model was developed based on cohesive failure in the adhesive layer of the joint. It was found that transverse impact results in shear and peel stress concentration in the adhesive due to the considerable deflection of the joint. The stress distribution in the adhesive layer was asymmetric along the overlap length direction. The peel stress varies from tensile to compressive from one side to the other. Two cracks initiated at two sides of the adhesive layer were observed before the failure of the joint.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. F. M. de Queiroz ◽  
M. D. Banea ◽  
D. K. K. Cavalcanti

AbstractNatural fibre-reinforced composites have attracted a great deal of attention by the automotive industry mainly due to their sustainable characteristics and low cost. The use of sustainable composites is expected to continuously increase in this area as the cost and weight of vehicles could be partially reduced by replacing glass fibre composites and aluminium with natural fibre composites. Adhesive bonding is the preferred joining method for composites and is increasingly used in the automotive industry. However, the literature on natural fibre reinforced polymer composite adhesive joints is scarce and needs further investigation. The main objective of this study was to investigate experimentally adhesively bonded joints made of natural, synthetic and interlaminar hybrid fibre-reinforced polymer composites. The effect of the number of the interlaminar synthetic layers required in order to match the bonded joint efficiency of a fully synthetic GFRP bonded joint was studied. It was found that the failure load of the hybrid jute/glass adherend joints increased by increasing the number of external synthetic layers (i.e. the failure load of hybrid 3-layer joint increased by 28.6% compared to hybrid 2-layer joint) and reached the pure synthetic adherends joints efficiency due to the optimum compromise between the adherend material property (i.e. stiffness and strength) and a diminished bondline peel stress state.


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