The lack of accurate methods for detecting kissing bonds is one of the reasons that prevent the larger use of adhesive bonding in the aeronautical industry. The main problem with kissing bonds is that their real nature is not well understood. By kissing bonds, one often describes a range of defects, which do not fit into any other better-defined category of defect. They represent disbonds with the two faces touching. This paper details a study carried out by CSM Materialteknik on the detectability of kissing bonds in adhesive joints. Aluminium-epoxy-aluminium kissing bonds have been artificially manufactured following a procedure that firstly respects the standard way of bonding metal to metal at Saab AB, and secondly, that respects the basic requirements for qualifying a kissing bond, e.g. interphasial mode of failure and very low strength compared to the nominal strength. The manufacturing procedure is presented. Other kissing bonds produced with electrically releasing epoxy and also titanium diffusion bonds have been used. The detectability of the kissing bonds by the Ultrasonic Resonance Spectroscopy (URS) has been assessed.


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    Title :

    Detection of kissing bond in aluminium bonded structures used in aeronautics


    Additional title:

    Nachweis von Bindefehlern (Kissing Bonds) in gebondeten Aluminiumstrukturen der Luftfahrt


    Contributors:
    Marty, P.N. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2003


    Size :

    4 Seiten, 6 Bilder, 7 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




    NDT of Kissing bond in aeronautical structures

    Marty, P.N. / Desai, N. / Andersson, J. | Tema Archive | 2004


    Fuels used in aeronautics

    Durier, Y. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1962


    Terms used in Aeronautics

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1917



    Aeronautics

    USA, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics / USA, Congress | TIBKAT | 1.1915 - 4.1918(1920); 6.1920 - 20.1934