Composites

Testing mechanical performance of adhesively bonded composite joints in engineering applications: an overview
The development of new adhesives has allowed to expand the application of bonding into the most diverse industrial fields. This review …
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Strain-based methodology for mixed-mode I+II fracture: A new partitioning method for bi-material adhesively bonded joints
© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis. The dissemination of composite materials introduces applications of hybrid structures with …
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On the fracture behaviour of CFRP bonded joints under mode I loading: Effect of supporting carrier and interface contamination
This paper addresses the fracture behaviour of bonded composite plates featuring a kissing bond along the crack growth path. Double …
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The use of acoustic emission and composite peel tests to detect weak adhesion in composite structures
Adhesive bonding is one of the most promising joining technologies for composite aircraft. However, to comply with current aircraft …
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Test method to assess interface adhesion in composite bonding
This paper introduces a new type of peel tests dedicated to composite bonding: Composite Peel Tests. This test is inspired on the …
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