EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON PROBABILITY OF STRENGTH FOR EPOXY ADHESIVE-BONDED METALS

  • Seo, Do-Won (Dept. of Mechanical Design, Chonbuk Nat′l Univ.) ;
  • Lim, Jae-Kyoo (Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace System Eng., Chonbuk Nat′l Univ.) ;
  • Jeon, Yang-Bae (Dept. of Mechanical Design, Chonbuk Nat′l Univ.) ;
  • Yoon, Ho-Cheol (Dept. of Mechanical Design, Chonbuk Nat′l Univ.)
  • Published : 2002.10.01

Abstract

Adhesive bonding is becoming one of the popular joining techniques in metal industries, since it has some advantages over other techniques such as welding and diffusion bonding, e.g., any dissimilar metals are easily adhesive-bonded together. In this study, the experiments were carried out in order to provide the statistical data with strength evaluation methods: tension, shear and four-point bending tests for thermoplastic epoxy resin based adhesive-bonded metal joints. We should certificate on the probability of the adhesive strength that has the tendency of brittle fracture, the adhesive bonding strength between metals with thermoplastic adhesive has the best probability at four-point bending test. The strength testing method that has higher probability is four-point bending test, shear test and tensile test in order.

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