Reliable design of fatigue of bonded steel sheet structures

摘要

The interest in adhesively bonded automotive sheet structures is strong due to the potential stiffness and strength increments compared to conventional joining techniques such as for instance resistance spot welding.Naturally,for the conventional joining techniques fatigue design guidelines are well established but are in a development stage for the bonded structures.This paper is a contribution to this process of developing fatigue design procedures for adhesively bonded steel sheet structures.