EFFECT OF JOINT GEOMETRY ON THE BEHAVIOR AND FAILURE MODES OF SANDWICH T-JOINTS UNDER TRANSVERSE STATIC LOADS

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Due to wide spread applications of adhesive T-joints in various industries, it necessitates a review of properties and strength of their fracture modes under static and dynamic loadings. By defining the ability of failure in the joint material and fracture of adhesive in the numerical model, fracture modes of sandwich T-joints have been investigated. This paper presents numerical results on the performance of sandwich T-joints subjected to static tensile and static transverse loading. The results of available experiments in the literature have been used to validate the detailed numerical models capable of simulating the damage processes observed. In general, the failure load predicted by the finite element (FE) analysis is within 5% of the experimental results.

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