Composite patch repair of metallic structures has become a rapidly grown technology in the aerospace field due to the demand for significant increases in the useful life of both military and civilian aircraft. This has led to significant advances overall in the repair technology of cracked metallic structures. Adhesively bonded composite reinforcements offer remarkable advantages such as mechanical efficiency, repair time, cost reduction, high structural integrity, repair inspectability, damage tolerance to further causes of future strains, anticorrosion and antifretting properties. However, because of the different nature and properties of the materials that form a repair (metals, composites, adhesives), side-effects may occur: debonding due to high stress concentration in the vicinity of the crack, thermal residual stresses because of different thermal expansion coefficients of the adherents, etc. In this paper a three-dimensional finite elements analysis of the area around a patch repaired crack of a typical aircraft fuselage is performed, taking into account both the properties and the geometry of the involved materials. Examined in this case are 2024-T3 aluminum alloys as base material, FM-73 as the adhesive system and F4/5521 boron/epoxy prepreg as the patch material. Through the thickness stresses near the crack tip and along the patch edges with the without temperature effects are calculated and debonding near the crack tip is examined. Finally, the calculated results are compared with existing theories.


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    Title :

    Thermal analysis by numerical methods of debonding effects near the crack tip under composite repairs


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    Publication date :

    2003


    Size :

    10 Seiten, 10 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English






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