Adhesive bonding is a key joining technique for aluminium alloy components in the automotive industry. Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO) an emerging surface treatment protection of metal alloys including those aluminium. This work set out to assess adhesive bond strength and behaviour PEO coated AA6060-T6. Thin (15 25 μm) oxide coatings were produced on AA6060-T6 by electrolytic phosphate sil...

Many industries such as oil, gas, aerospace, and automotive, use axisymmetric adhesively bonded single lap joints. Different materials are frequently mated using When composite adherents delaminate, the stress circulation inside adhesive layer significantly influenced. As a result, importance of considering stresses in presence considerable delamination is investigated this paper. To understand...

The present work addresses two key issues relating to the study of rate effects in adhesively bonded joints. Firstly, accurate determination crack tip strain and secondly cohesive zone length. rate-dependent fracture behaviour adhesive joints with either a toughened epoxy or ductile polyurethane was investigated under mode I loading rates ranging from 0.1 mm/min 1.0 m/s digital image correlatio...

Elements based on the exact stiffness matrix method contain an embedded analytical solution that can capture detailed local fields, enabling more efficient mesh independent finite element analysis. In the present study, this method was applied to adhesively bonded joints. The adherends were modeled as Euler-Bernoulli beams, and the adhesive layer was modeled as a bed of linear shear and normal ...

The objective of the project was to provide means for establishing reliable quantitative failure initiation criteria for multiple chip modules (MCMs), electronic packages, laminated composites and adhesively bonded joints. During Phase I, an easy-to-use, reliable and robust software was developed, with a graphic user interface, based on the innovative methods presented in [1], [2] and [3], for ...

This review paper aims at reporting some of the notable works carried out concerning the use of nanoparticles (NPs) as a means of improving the resistance of fiber-reinforced polymer composite materials (FRPs) and adhesively bonded joints (ABJs) to delamination initiation and propagation. Applications of various nanoparticles, such as carbon-based, ceramic-based and mineral-based are discussed....