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Bi-adhesive (or mixed-adhesive) joint is an alternative stress-reduction technique for adhesively bonded lap joints. In this work, an experimental study was performed to assess the effect of bi-adhesive bondline on the failure load of mono-adhesive and bi-adhesive single-lap joints. The first step in the experimental study related to mono-adhesive joint, the overlap length was checked using the Global yielding criteria. For the selected overlap length, failure loads of AV138, Araldite 2015 and DP-8005 mono-adhesive joints were determined. It was seen that the highest failure load occurred in the Araldite 2015 mono-adhesive joint. Secondly, the bi-adhesive joints were considered as two different adhesive combinations (AV138 + 2015, AV138 + DP-8005). An interesting result was obtained that the considered bi-adhesive joints with two different adhesive combinations (AV138 + 2015, AV138 + DP-8005) give joint strengths higher than the joint strengths of the adhesives used individually, even if ductile adhesive has a joint strength higher than that of the stiff adhesive. In the last step of this study, experimental investigation was then focused on the determination of optimum bond-length ratio for the bi-adhesive joint. Optimum bond-length ratio for bi-adhesive joint was then investigated using three ratios (0.3, 0.5, 0.7). It is concluded that the adhesive type and the bond-length ratio play an important role in the bi-adhesive bondline. Comparisons of the experimentally determined failure loads and shear strengths with available closed-form solutions were also carried out. Experimental failure loads were in good agreement with those obtained from the Volkersen method and Global yielding criteria.

An experimental investigation on the failure loads of the mono and bi-adhesive joints

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