Toward an Engineering Theory for Adhesive Joints

Abstract

The development of high-strength structural adhesives has created may new uses for adhesive joints and established a need for additional theoretical and experimental study. An adhesive lap joint is analyzed, taking advantage of its similarity to a sandwich structure for which an established theory exists. The principles of minimum complementary energy is used to develop the governing equations, which are equivalent to a single differential equation of eighth order. Included in the complementary energy expression are contributions due to shear and normal stresses in the adhesive layer and due to shear, axial, bending, and normal stresses in the adherend.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0876371

Entities

People

  • James T. Vaughan Jr.
  • Lawrence W. Rehfield

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adhesives
  • Army Aviation
  • Boundaries
  • Differential Equations
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Export Controls
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Governments
  • Joining
  • Joints
  • Mechanical Working
  • Mechanics
  • Modulus Of Elasticity
  • New York
  • United States
  • Virginia

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  • Structural Dynamics.
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.