The use of adhesive joints has increased rapidly in the past decades. Driven by the growing
demand for lightweight structures, composite adherends have increased in popularity …

ABSTRACT A comprehensive literature review on the existing analytical models based on
different material and geometry behaviors for both single and double-lap joints (as well as …

Adhesive bonding is a constantly developing technique, and the volume of its industrial
applications is rapidly increasing, which, in turn, requires improving the compatibility and …

A graded material can be defined as a material which has constituents and/or properties that
vary in one or more directions throughout the material. In a functionally graded material …

Material tailoring of bondlayer compliance is a known effective route to enhance
performance of multilayers, and here spatial material-tailoring of compliance and …

There is increasing demand for effective and efficient lightweight structures because of
global environmental and resource sustainability concerns. Adhesive bonding has been …

Adhesively bonded joints with functionally graded (FG) adherends are of practical
significance since tailoring material composition through the adherend thickness can lead to …

In this study, an analytical elasto-plastic stress analysis was proposed to determine the
shear stress in a ductile adhesively bonded single-lap joint. DP460 adhesive was employed …

The strength and interfacial behavior of single lap joints with graded adherends subjected to
uniaxial tensile loading are investigated in the present paper. A bilinear cohesive zone …

Adhesively bonded joints exhibit a common problem, called edge effects, arising from peel
and shear stress concentrations occurring around the free edges of the adherend-adhesive …