• Proceedings of the Korean Society For Composite Materials Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.5-8
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• 2002

The use of the co-cured joining method for composite structures is attractive due to several benefits. However, since the design stress level in cyclic loads is often smaller than the joint strength obtained from the static tensile load test, it is important to establish proper fatigue design criteria. Although some researchers have reported on co-cured joints, there are only a few papers published on the fatigue characteristics of co-cured joints. In this paper, the effect of bond parameters on the fatigue characteristics of a steel-composite co-cured double lap joint under cyclic tensile loads was experimentally investigated. We considered the surface roughness of the steel adherend and the stacking sequence of the composite adherend as bond parameters. A fatigue failure mechanism of the co-cured double lap joint was explained systematically by investigating the surfaces of failed specimens.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society For Composite Materials Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.95-98
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• 2001

Co-cured joining method is an efficient joining technique because both curing and bonding processes for the composite structures can be achieved simultaneously. It requires neither an adhesive nor a surface treatment of the composite adherend because the excess resin, which is extracted from composite materials during consolidation, accomplishes the co-cured joining process. In this paper, we considered three bond parameters, affecting tensile load bearing capacity of the co-cured single and double lap joints. Filially, we nave presented optimal bonding conditions for co-cured single and double lap joints with steel and composite adherends under tensile loads.

• Composites Research
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.15-22
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• 2006

One of the primary factors limiting the application of composite-metal adhesively bonded joints in structural design is the lack of a good evaluation tool for the interfacial strength to predict the load bearing capacity of boned joints. In this paper composite-steel adhesion strength is evaluated in terms of stress intensity factor and fracture toughness of the interface corner. The load bearing capacity of double lap joints, fabricated by co-cured bonding of composite-steel adherends has been determined using fracture mechanical analysis. Bi-material interface comer stress singularity and its order are presented. Finally stress intensities and fracture toughness of the wedge shape bi-material interface corner are determined. Double lap joint failure locus and its mixed mode crack propagation criterion on $K_1-K_{11}$ plane have been developed by tension tests with different bond lengths.