Strain-Energy Release Rate Analysis of Adhesive-Bonded Composite Joints with Prescribed Interlaminar Crack

Reliability analysis of bonded joints with variations in adhesive thickness

Fatigue Crack Growth in Adhesive Joints

Adhesive joining is recognized as a potential enabling technology for a variety of material systems being considered in automotive structures where traditional fastening methods would be inappropriate. Well known examples include fiber reinforced composites and polymers. Additionally in certain circumstances, adhesive bonding of steel structures can provide benefits such as improved stiffness a...

non-linear analysis of adhesive joints in composite structures

this paper presents a novel formulation and numerical solutions for adhesively bonded composite joints with non-linear (softening) adhesive behaviour. the presented approach has the capability of choosing arbitrary loadings and boundary conditions. in this model adherends are orthotropic laminates that obey classical lamination theory. the stacking sequences can be either symmetric or asymmetri...

Monitoring of Disbonding in Bonded Composite Joints Using Cfbg Sensors Embedded within the Adhesive Bondline

Chirped fibre Bragg grating (CFBG) sensors have been embedded within the adhesive bondline of single-lap bonded composite joints, fabricated using a transparent glass fibre reinforced plastic (GFRP) adherend bonded to a carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) adherend. During fatigue cycling, disbonds initiated adjacent to the cut ends of one, or both, of the adherends and the disbonds propagate...

Damage Development Analysis Based on Strain Energy Release Rate for 3-d Woven Composite

Methods of damage development analyses for various types of composite materials such as 3-D woven composite have not been established sufficiently because it is quite difficult to simulate the failure propagation. A FEM simulation of failure process of 3-D composite was executed by Mibayashi including the thermal residual stresses after the curing process, and the deformations and stresses calc...