Joint design (Topic: 17112)

Adhesive bonded joints could be effected by four main types of stresses. These are shear, tension, cleavage and peel.

Adhesive joints should be designed in such a way that the joint is stressed in shear. Cleavage and peel stresses should be reduced to a minimum. Pure tension means evenly distributed stresses over the joint area, but if the load is offset it will result in cleavage stresses.

Extruded profiles could in most cases very easily be designed for adhesive bonding. The example below illustrates the joint design of a sail-ship.

References: [2,8,12]