Three-dimensional residual stress mapping of an aluminum 2024-T3 arcan specimen, butt-welded by the friction stir technique, was performed by neutron diffraction. Results indicate that the residual stress distribution profiles across the weld region are asymmetric with respect to the weld centerline, with the largest gradients in the measured residual stress components occurring on the advancin...

While the geometry of aerospace assemblies is carefully controlled, for many industrial applications such as marine structures bond line thickness can vary significantly. In this study epoxy adhesive joints of different thicknesses between aluminium substrates have been characterized using physicochemical analyses (differential scanning calorimetry, DSC; dynamic mechanical analysis, DMA; spectr...

in recent years, the application of composite materials in aircraft and space vehicle structural components has become increasingly popular. preventing failure of composite structural systems has been an important issue in engineering design. due to the lack of through-the-thickness reinforcement, structures made from laminated composite materials and adhesively bonded joints are highly suscept...

This paper deals with the numerical implementation of exponential Drucker-Parger plasticity model in commercial finite element software, ABAQUS, via user subroutine UMAT for adhesive joint simulations. The influence hydrostatic pressure on strength was investigated by a modified Arcan fixture designed particularly to induce different state within an layer. developed UMAT, which utilizes associa...