Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADHESION AND ADHESIVES
Volume 83, Issue -, Pages 143-152Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijadhadh.2018.02.012
Keywords
Single lap joint; Polyurethane adhesive; Surface roughness; Adhesive thickness; Fatigue life
Funding
- EU [ENPI/2009/020-512]
- ICAR industry Tunisia
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Fatigue is a crucial type of loading for many structural components that contain adhesive bonding systems such as the automotive industry. One of the main advantages of adhesives is their weight-reduction aptitudes. Furthermore, adhesively bonded joints allow a good damping to the fatigue's solicitation with fewer sources of stress concentration. In addition, a suitable surface treatment allows a great joint interface adhesion under cyclic loading. Hence, the mechanical preparation of the bonded surface influences directly the bonded joint performance. Therefore, a careful consideration should be given to the choice of the bonded adhesive thickness. The aim of this paper is to investigate the influence of surface roughness of an aluminium alloy and the adhesive thickness of a one-component polyurethane adhesive, to be used in several parts for buses structure, on the fatigue behaviour of single lap joints. To achieve this purpose, four different surface roughnesses were prepared on aluminium specimens, with an arithmetic average height from Ra approximate to 0.6 mu m to Ra approximate to 1.5 mu m. Bonded specimens with four adhesive thicknesses from 0.3 mm to 2 mm were manufactured and tested in dynamic tests. The results confirm that there is an optimum combination of surface roughness and adhesive thickness providing the maximum fatigue life. Moreover, good agreement was found between this investigation and a previous work using the same parameters under static loading.
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