An Investigation on the Fatigue Behavior of Balanced and Unbalanced Epoxy-Aluminum Single Lap Joints

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiuren Chen ◽  
Haiding Guo ◽  
John V. Lasecki ◽  
John Hill ◽  
Xuming Su ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Behavior ◽  
Lap Joints ◽  
Single Lap Joints

scholarly journals Experimental Study of the Influence of the Surface Preparation on the Fatigue Behavior of Polyamide Single Lap Joints

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1008
Author(s):  
Francesco Musiari ◽  
Fabrizio Moroni
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Fatigue Behavior ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure Plasma ◽  
Surface Preparation ◽  
Lap Joints ◽  
Polymeric Surfaces ◽  
Adhesively Bonded Joints ◽  
Single Lap Joints ◽  
Number Of Cycles ◽  
Structural Adhesive

The low quality of adhesion performance on polymeric surfaces has forced the development of specific pretreatments able to toughen the interface between substrate and adhesive. Among these methods, atmospheric pressure plasma treatment (APPT) appears particularly suitable for its environmental compatibility and its effectiveness in altering the chemical state of the surface. In this work, an experimental study on adhesively bonded joints realized using polyamide as substrates and polyurethane as the structural adhesive was carried out with the intent to characterize their fatigue behavior, which represents a key issue of such joints during their working life. The single lap joint (SLJ) geometry was chosen and several surface pretreatments were compared with each other: degreasing, abrasion (alone and followed by APPT) and finally APPT. The results show that the abrasion combined with APPT presents the most promising behavior, which appears consistent with the higher percentage of life spent for crack propagation found by means of DIC on this class of joints with respect to the others. APPT alone confers a good fatigue resistance with respect to the simple abrasion, especially at a low number of cycles to failure.

Effect of interface non-flatness on the fatigue behavior of adhesively bonded single lap joints

2017 ◽  
Vol 233 (7) ◽  
pp. 1277-1286 ◽  
Author(s):  
SMJ Razavi ◽  
MR Ayatollahi ◽  
M Samari ◽  
LFM da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Bearing Capacity ◽  
Fatigue Behavior ◽  
Fatigue Loading ◽  
Lap Joints ◽  
Lap Joint ◽  
Adhesively Bonded ◽  
Load Bearing Capacity ◽  
Load Bearing ◽  
Single Lap Joints

This paper addresses numerical and experimental examination of the role of zigzag interface shapes on the load bearing capacity and fatigue life of adhesively bonded single lap joints. Aluminum adherends with non-flat zigzag interfaces were tested under both quasi-static and fatigue loading conditions. The quasi-static test results revealed that the non-flat adhesive joints have higher load bearing capacity compared to the conventional flat single lap joints. Comparative fatigue tests with different loading levels revealed that the non-flat zigzag single lap joint had considerably higher fatigue life than the conventional lap joint.

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