Abstract:Due to their inherent advantages, the use of adhesive joints is widely increasing in advanced industrial sectors such as automotive and aircraft structures, where the lightweight components play a significant role in the efficiency of the products. These structural adhesively bonded connections mostly experience cyclic stress conditions during their service life. One of the most critical fatigue loading conditions for adhesive joints is the tensile cyclic loading. To design against tensile fatigue conditions r… Show more
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