Abstract This chapter provides an overview of the common types defects found in various structural materials and joints aircraft. Materials manufacturing methods (including large-scale production) have been established aircraft industry. However, as will be seen this chapter, during in-service conditions are very across all material types. The include metals, composites, coatings, adhesively bo...

Joints and interfaces are one of the key aspects design production composite structures. This paper investigates effect adhesive–adherend interface morphology on mechanical behavior wavy-lap joints with aim to improve performance. Intentional deviation from a flat joint plane was introduced in different bond angles (0°, 60°, 90° 120°) were subjected quasi-static tensile load. Comparisons made r...

In adhesive bonding, two different substrate materials are joined together, usually by forming chemical bonds. The can stick things together. loading rate and deformation mode easily change the mechanical properties of material. Hence, a vital aim current study is to evaluate strain effect on damage response joints for Mode I scenarios. adherend material was aluminum AL6061-T6, Araldite 2015 ad...

The effect of environmental conditions on the fracture behaviour two types adhesively bonded joints (wet-aged and non-aged) is experimentally studied under mode II loading. End Loaded Split tests were performed at various temperatures (−55 °C, room temperature (RT) 80 °C) non-aged aged specimens. specimens stored in a laboratory controlled RT (23 °C/55 RH) while wet-aged exposed to accelerated ...