Techniques to reduce the peel stresses in adhesive joints with composites

The authors have previously developed a novel joint that consists of two adhesives, one better at low temperatures (−55 °C) and the other for high temperatures (200 °C). They have shown that this technique enables the design of a joint with a higher load capacity than a joint with only one adhesive, especially for dissimilar adherends. They studied the case of a double-lap joint where the outer adherends were titanium and the inner adherend was...