Effect of environment conditions on adhesive properties and material selection in composite bonded joints

Adhesives have been widely used in aircraft composite bonded structures, which are required to stand severe environment conditions involving high temperature and moisture during the service. Current relevant investigations focus on the environment effects on adhesive specific properties with little...

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Published inInternational journal of adhesion and adhesives Vol. 96; p. 102302
Main Authors Zhang, Jie, Cheng, Xiaoquan, Guo, Xin, Bao, Jianwen, Huang, Wenjun
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2020
Elsevier BV
Subjects
Acceleration
Adhesive bonding
Adhesive joints
Adhesive strength
Bonded joints
Bulk adhesive
Curing
Double-lap composite bonded joint
Environmental effects
Epoxy adhesives
High temperature
Hygrothermal effect
Matching
Matching consistency
Materials selection
Moisture
Moisture absorption
Plastic properties
Shear properties
Shear strength
Temperature effects
Tensile properties
Tensile strength
Bulk adhesive
Matching consistency
RW
SLCJ
Shear strength
Double-lap composite bonded joint
Tensile strength
DLCJ
RD
EW
Hygrothermal effect
BA
ED
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Summary:Adhesives have been widely used in aircraft composite bonded structures, which are required to stand severe environment conditions involving high temperature and moisture during the service. Current relevant investigations focus on the environment effects on adhesive specific properties with little attention to adhesive material selection in different environment conditions. In this paper, the properties of two types of adhesives from the same material system, SY14M (an elevated temperature curing epoxy adhesive) and SY24C (a medium temperature curing epoxy adhesive), were studied in different environment conditions. An adhesive selection method based on property matching between adhesive tensile and shear strength in different environment conditions was proposed. Results show that hydrolysis reaction can cause adhesive color variation, moisture absorption acceleration and plasticity decrease. Thermal effect on tensile properties of the adhesives is greater than that on shear properties, while moisture effect is opposite. High temperature can extremely increase adhesive plasticity, especially for tough adhesive. For the two adhesives, the matching consistency between tensile and shear strength is different in different environment conditions, so environment conditions must be considered in the adhesive selection.
ISSN:0143-7496
1879-0127
DOI:10.1016/j.ijadhadh.2018.12.001