Single-lap shear (SLS) joints are straightforward to manufacture. This makes them especially attractive for testing polymer composite welded joints. Owing local heating, which is characteristic of welding processes, the production more geometrically intricate (such as double-lap or scarfed joints) bigger end-notched flexure double cantilever beam) typically entails significant complexity in des...

Perturbation(s) in the adhesive’s properties originating from manufacturing, glue-line application method and in-service conditions, may lead to poor performance of bonded systems. Herein, effect such uncertainties on adhesive stresses is analyzed via a probabilistic mechanics framework built continuum-based theoretical model. Firstly, generic 2D plane stress/strain linear-elastic model for com...

In this paper, considering an adhesively bonded composite single-lap joint, a novel approach is presented to predict the peel and shear stress distributions of the adhesive layer for an ASTM standard test sample. In current method, the equilibrium equations are derived using the energy method and based on the Timoshenko’s beam theory. Two solution procedures then are discussed, one of which rep...