چكيده به لاتين
Abstract:
Nowadays, the use of adhesive joints due to its advantages ahead of old techniques have been advanced day by day. A uniform tension distribution and low cost process of adhesive joints can be mentioned as examples of its advantages. One of the main cons of epoxy based adhesives as a very practical structural adhesive is its low value of fracture energy.
In this work, addition of nano-fillers was used in order to overcome this downside. The objectives of this research are to study the effect of different nano-fillers on the fracture energy and fracture behavior of the adhesive. Thus, graphene oxide nano-platelets (GOPs) and carbon nano-tubes (CNTs) as different nano-fillers at 0.1, 0.3 and 0.5 wt% were used in order to improve the fracture energy of adhesive in this work. Nano-fillers were dispersed in the adhesive and double cantilever beam specimens were manufactured and tested in order to determine the fracture energy of nano-reinforced adhesives in the mode I of fracture. An increase of 20.4% was observed in the fracture energy of reinforced adhesive including 0.3 wt% of carbon nano-tubes. An increase of 66.7% was observed also in the fracture energy of reinforced adhesive including 0.3 wt% of graphene oxide nano-palatelets. Reported results illustrates the superiority of graphene nano-platelets over carbon nano-tubes in improving the fracture energy of the adhesive.
Cohesive zone model technique was used In order to study the fracture behavior of the reinforced adhesives. Traction-separation parameters and the ways of obtaining or selecting them were discussed. Traction-separation diagrams were obtained for adhesives at each filler wt%. The diagrams were studied, and an increase of about 29% in cohesive strength and an increase of about 20% in the length of the process zone were discovered in reinforced adhesives including 0.3 wt% of GOPs at the end. The same increase in cohesive strength and a dcrease of 9% were discovered in reinforced adhesives including 0.3 wt% of CNTs.
Key words: nano-adhesives, fracture energy, nano-fillers, cohesive zone model