Thermo-fracture analysis of composite-aluminum bonded joints at low temperatures: Experimental and numerical analyses

Adhesive joints have found extensive applications in aerospace structures because of important advantages such as uniform stress distribution, thermal, acoustic and electrical insulation as well as capability of joining dissimilar materials. These joints in aerospace structures frequently experience severe low temperatures. Lack of experimental data in this field motivated the study of the fracture of adhesive joint at low temperatures in this...