Creep behaviour of a graphene-reinforced epoxy adhesively bonded joint: experimental and numerical investigation

In this paper, the creep behaviour of aluminium to aluminium adhesively bonded joints reinforced with different amount of graphene nano-platelets (up to 0.5 wt %) was investigated experimentally and numerically. The mechanical properties of the neat and reinforced epoxy adhesive, as well as their creep behaviour were obtained by tensile tests and creep tests in three stress levels, respectively. The nonlinear Norton-Bailey creep model was used...