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  • Double lap adhesvie joint with reduced stress concentraton effect of slot

    Rights statement: This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Composite Structures. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Composite Structures, 202, 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2018.03.026

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Double lap adhesive joint with reduced stress concentration: effect of slot

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>15/10/2018
<mark>Journal</mark>Composite Structures
Volume202
Number of pages8
Pages (from-to)635-642
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date13/03/18
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Stress distributions at interfaces of adhesive lap joints have been widely studied to optimize overall structural strength. However, these studies focussed mainly on the mechanics of adhesive layers. In this paper, a novel concept for a double lap adhesive joint is proposed by introducing a slot in its inner adherend. Numerical simulations employing a finite-element method are used to validate the proposed concept. The results show that the introduction of the slots can smooth the stress distributions along the edges of the interfaces between adhesive and adherend and reduce stress concentration near the cut-off ends of the joint. The results also show that the height of the slots has significant effects on alternating the interfacial stresses. Thus, the proposed concept provides a promising way to optimize double lap adhesive joints for enhanced strength with reduced weight.

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This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Composite Structures. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Composite Structures, 202, 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2018.03.026