Continuing interest and more developments in recent years indicated that it would be useful
to update Banea and da Silva paper entitled “Adhesively bonded joints in composite …

In the framework of the Cost Action CERTBOND (Reliable roadmap for certification of
bonded primary structures), a wide group of researchers from 27 European Countries have …

Adhesively-bonded joints are extensively used in several fields of engineering. Cohesive
Zone Models (CZM) have been used for the strength prediction of adhesive joints, as an add …

The use of adhesive joints has gathered increasing interest in recent years due to their
advantages over conventional bonding techniques, namely lighter structures and decreased …

The analysis of adhesively bonded joints started in 1938 with the closed-form model of
Volkersen. The equilibrium equation of a single lap joint led to a simple governing …

One parameter that influences the adhesively bonded joints performance is the adhesive
layer thickness. Hence, its effect has to be investigated experimentally and should be taken …

Healing-on-demand materials exhibit the capability to close cracks and heal the
closed/narrowed cracks when needed and to recover functionality using intrinsic or extrinsic …

Adhesive bonding is used to fabricate structures of complex shape that could not be
manufactured in one piece. In many high performance structures, joints between composite …

The cohesive element (CE) has been widely used to model delamination in laminated
composites. The penalty stiffness, interfacial strength and fracture toughness are three CE …

The available techniques for strength prediction of bonded joints have improved over the
years. Cohesive zone models (CZM) coupled to finite element method (FEM) analyses …