scholarly journals A convenient way to represent fatigue crack growth in structural adhesives

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Jones ◽  
W. Hu ◽  
A. J. Kinloch
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Crack ◽  
Fatigue Crack Growth ◽  
Crack Growth ◽  
Structural Adhesives

scholarly journals Requirements and Variability Affecting the Durability of Bonded Joints

Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhys Jones ◽  
Daren Peng ◽  
John G. Michopoulos ◽  
Anthony J. Kinloch
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Crack ◽  
Fatigue Crack Growth ◽  
Crack Growth ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fatigue Threshold ◽  
Growth Equation ◽  
Bonded Joints ◽  
Cohesive Failure ◽  
Structural Adhesives

This paper firstly reveals that when assessing if a bonded joint meets the certification requirements inherent in MIL-STD-1530D and the US Joint Services Standard JSSG2006 it is necessary to ensure that: (a) There is no yielding at all in the adhesive layer at 115% of design limit load (DLL), and (b) that the joint must be able to withstand design ultimate load (DUL). Secondly, it is revealed that fatigue crack growth in both nano-reinforced epoxies, and structural adhesives can be captured using the Hartman–Schijve crack growth equation, and that the scatter in crack growth in adhesives can be modelled by allowing for variability in the fatigue threshold. Thirdly, a methodology was established for estimating a valid upper-bound curve, for cohesive failure in the adhesive, which encompasses all the experimental data and provides a conservative fatigue crack growth curve. Finally, it is shown that this upper-bound curve can be used to (a) compare and characterise structural adhesives, (b) determine/assess a “no growth” design (if required), (c) assess if a disbond in an in-service aircraft will grow and (d) to design and life in-service adhesively-bonded joints in accordance with the slow-growth approach contained in the United States Air Force (USAF) certification standard MIL-STD-1530D.

A discrete dislocation analysis of fatigue crack growth

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (PR5) ◽  
pp. Pr5-69-Pr5-75
Author(s):  
V. S. Deshpande ◽  
H. H.M. Cleveringa ◽  
E. Van der Giessen ◽  
A. Needleman
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Crack ◽  
Fatigue Crack Growth ◽  
Crack Growth ◽  
Discrete Dislocation

Fatigue Investigation of Elastomeric Structures

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 194-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bastian Näser ◽  
Michael Kaliske ◽  
Will V. Mars
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Crack ◽  
Fatigue Crack Growth ◽  
Crack Growth ◽  
Material Behavior ◽  
Period Effect ◽  
Numerical Representation ◽  
Material Force ◽  
Strain Behavior ◽  
Dissipative Effects ◽  
Elastomeric Materials

Abstract Fatigue crack growth can occur in elastomeric structures whenever cyclic loading is applied. In order to design robust products, sensitivity to fatigue crack growth must be investigated and minimized. The task has two basic components: (1) to define the material behavior through measurements showing how the crack growth rate depends on conditions that drive the crack, and (2) to compute the conditions experienced by the crack. Important features relevant to the analysis of structures include time-dependent aspects of rubber’s stress-strain behavior (as recently demonstrated via the dwell period effect observed by Harbour et al.), and strain induced crystallization. For the numerical representation, classical fracture mechanical concepts are reviewed and the novel material force approach is introduced. With the material force approach at hand, even dissipative effects of elastomeric materials can be investigated. These complex properties of fatigue crack behavior are illustrated in the context of tire durability simulations as an important field of application.

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