As a part of our ongoing study to investigate the effect of adhesive defects on fatigue strength of adhesive-bonded joint, a series of fatigue tests were carried out by using adhesive-bonded butt joints with unbonded layer at adhesive/adherend interface under the push-pull fatigue load condition of stress ratio
R=-1.0.
The specimens used possessed two unbonded portions of nail shape along the adhesive/adherend interface, which were located at the opposite sides of the specimen. To characterize the defect size quantitatively, it was defined by the following two quantities; the unbonded width which was the same as the defect length exposed to the free surface of the specimen, 2
r, and the unbonded depth from the free surface,
l.
The fatigue strength of the adhesive-bonded joint specimens with two kinds of unbonded width (2
r=3, 5mm) was discussed in connection with the unbonded depth
l. The main results obtained in this study are as follows:
(1) For the specimen with 2
r=3mm, the fatigue strength decreased with increasing
l in the low stress cycle range. But, the effect of
l on the fatigue strength diminished with increasing stress cycles.
(2) For the specimen with 2
r=5mm, the fatigue strength decreased with increasing
l irrespective of the number of stress cycles.
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