Damage tolerance of an architected adhesive joint

Insensitivity to Flaws Leads to Damage Tolerance in Brittle Architected Meta-Materials

Cellular solids are instrumental in creating lightweight, strong, and damage-tolerant engineering materials. By extending feature size down to the nanoscale, we simultaneously exploit the architecture and material size effects to substantially enhance structural integrity of architected meta-materials. We discovered that hollow-tube alumina nanolattices with 3D kagome geometry that contained pr...

Adhesive joint modeling using compatible element formulation

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Mixed Mode Fracture Toughness of an Adhesive Bonded Joint

Adhesive joints are continuously emerging as candidate to replace traditional fastening systems, such as riveting or welding, in primary structural applications. A wide class of components belonging to electronic, automotive and aerospace industries contains adhesive joints, however, the reliability during service constitutes a major technical problem as these contain flaws. Therefore, their us...

Evaluation of Fatigue Damage in Adhesive Bonding: Part 2: Single lap joint

Damage parameters for crack initiation in Single Lap Joint (SLJ) are determined by combining continuum damage mechanics, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and fatigue experimental data. Even tough SLJ has a simple configuration; the stresses in the adhesive region are quite complex and exhibit a multi-axial state. Such a condition leads to the need to introduce a general value of triaxiality functi...

Fabrication of 3d Micro-architected/ Nano-architected Materials