Showing papers by "Jack R. Vinson published in 2010"
TL;DR: In this paper, an axially loaded single lap shear joint with a three-layer adherend architecture was designed to reduce peel stresses by approximately 7% and the maximum principal stress was reduced by 4% for this optimized architecture.
Abstract: Design studies are performed for composite material adherends in an axially loaded single lap shear joint with a three-layer adherend architecture. An optimal three-layer symmetric design and an improved three-layer asymmetric design are found. For the specific composite and adhesive material systems chosen, peel stresses are reduced by approximately 7% by using this improved three-layer asymmetric architecture. The maximum principal stress is reduced by approximately 4% for this optimized architecture.