ABSTRACT The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Composite
Technology for Exploration (CTE) project is chartered to advance lightweight joint concepts …

Publisher Summary This chapter examines the applicability of existing requirements to
certify bonded repairs and to identify any deficiencies, omissions, or ambiguities. Adhesive …

ABSTRACT The United States Air Force (USAF) has a long history with structural metal and
advanced composites bonding for legacy platforms and has continued to embrace this …

The components of an aircraft such as the frame, fuselage, wings, stabilizers, etc. are the so-
called aircraft structures. They are usually made from a combination of materials including …

In the first section of this work, a suitable data reduction scheme is developed to measure
the adhesive joints strain energy release rate under pure mode‐I loading, and in the second …

The composites repair in the past was mostly for nonstructural applications. For the present
emerging systems and to extend service life of structural members, repairs need to be made …

Adhesive bonding has been used for a number of decades for construction of aircraft
components. Light weight sandwich construction and structural bonded joints form a major …

Although significant gains have been made in recent years towards understanding the
science of adhesively bonded metallic and composite joints, a better understanding of the …

The design of bonded repairs to flight critical aircraft structure places great demands on the
ability of the adhesive to withstand the operating environment over long periods of time. The …

A broad finite element study was carried out to understand the stress fields and stress
intensity factors behavior of cracks in adhesively bonded double-lap joints, which are …