Mechanical Engineering

Machine Design II

ME 341
Fall 2015
Part V: Adhesive Joints

Dr. Ibrahim El Fahham

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An adhesive is any substance applied to the surfaces of materials
that binds them together and resists separation.

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Advantages of Adhesive Joints:
The use of adhesives offers many advantages over binding techniques such
as sewing, mechanical fastening, thermal bonding.
1. The ability to bind different materials together,
2. To distribute stress more efficiently across the joint
3. The cost effectiveness of an easily mechanized process
4. Increased design flexibility.

Disadvantages of adhesive Joints:

1. Decreased stability at high temperatures
2. Relative weakness in bonding large objects
3. Greater difficulty in separating objects during testing.

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Basic Adhesive Joint Configurations

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Adhesive materials
In order to increase the joint efficiency the rheological properties of adhesive
material should be quite similar to that of the adherents.

Common types of adhesives are:

- Epoxies

- Polyester resins

- Nitric rubber phenolics

Advantage of Epoxies adhesives

1. High internal strength in cohesion
2. Low shrinkage stresses
3. Low temperature cure and creep
4. Insensitivity to moisture.
Fillers like aluminum oxides, boron fibers are used to improve mechanical
strength.
Polyester resins are widely used in commercial fields for various structural
applications involving plastics operating at moderate temperature.

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Adhesive Joints Failure

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Adhesive Joints Failure

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STRESSES IN ADHESIVE JOINTS
Shear Stress:
= Ks P/ A
where A = area of contact
=bL
b = sheet width
L = Length of Joint

Ks = Stress distribution factor

max. shear stress max.= 2.08 P

bL

mean stress mean=

P
bL

L/2

L/4

L/4

L/2

Stress distribution along the joint length (L)

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Adhesives

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Recommendations for Adhesive Joints