Advanced Characterization of Adhesive Joints and Adhesives

Campilho, Raul; Madani, Kouider; Prakash, Chander

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Campilho, Raul

Madani, Kouider

Prakash, Chander

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Structural adhesives have shown significant improvements in their behavior over the past few decades. This has enabled their application to become a reality in many sectors of activity, including the aeronautics and the automotive industry [1]. This evolution has been strongly supported by an intense investigation into adhesive joints and their behavior. Despite this intense research, there is still much to be explored regarding this matter, which translates into a continuous investigation of the failure modes of these types of joints, the characterization of new adhesives, the design of new joint geometries, and the use of hybrid joints, with a view to eliminating or reducing the less positive aspects presented by these joints, taking advantage of the best characteristics of each type of joint. Numerical methods have played an extremely important role in the prediction of the joints’ behavior, helping to find the best solutions to the typical problems presented by these kinds of joints [2]. Strength prediction techniques can be mainly divided into static and dynamic, with the former being subjected to a wider research effort from the academic community. Nonetheless, recently, significant efforts have been made to address complex dynamic loadings, such as fatigue and impact. (...)