Evaluation of Tubular Adhesively-Bonded Joints under Torsion | Chapter 9 | Research and Developments in Engineering Research Vol. 6

 This work acts a numerical study so that compare the torsional performance of three adhesive, in aluminium tubular joints (AW6082-T651), taking everything in mind the variation of the main geometric limits, such as overlie length (LO) and tubes’ thickness. The growing demand for light weight, excellence and more cost effective product has influenced adhesive fastening to emerge as one of the basic ways of catch structural members. Adhesive cheap hangouts have been earlier been designed tentatively but now moment of truth's data is available to design sticking joints in an best way. In order to envision the strength, the Finite Element Method (FEM) was used accompanying Cohesive Zone Models (CZM), whose analysis located itself on the internal stresses of the adhesive, that is to say the analysis of clip stress (txy) and joint strength, measured for one maximum torsional moment (Mm). To administer the torsion load, a reference point was conceived in the middle of television set and it was connected to the cross-sectional face converging joint end, which admitted applying a torsional angle boundary condition and accordingly performing the tests. The joint meshes were erected after defining the mesh sizes in each edge of the model. Previously, confirmation with exploratory data was carried out. The method was positively justified, and a significant geometry on Mm was erect, except for LO.

Author(s) Details:

T. J. S. Oliveira,
Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, R. Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal.

R. D. S. G. Campilho,
Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, R. Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal and INEGI – Pólo FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 400, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.

M. S. Kirgiz,
Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, T.C. istanbul Gelisim University, Avcilar, istanbul 34310, Turkiye.

M. V. Kumar,
Department of Civil Engineering, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India.

R. Alzein,
Department of Civil Engineering, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India.

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