I am trying to understand the mechanisms for disbond creation during metallic sandwich panel bonded repairs, specifically new disbonds in the unrepaired area of the part in contact with a heat blanket. For this conversation lets talk 250F cure film adhesives with aluminum facesheets and core. I...
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I am a bit confused about the behavior of metal doubler reinforcing repairs for cutouts. Say I have a plate loaded in tension, the standard method of sizing the repair is to go 1 gauge thicker, and size the amount and type of fasteners / required doubler overlap needed based on the load...
In order to obtain a bearing fatigue stress allowable, is it a relatively standard practice to just apply a factor to the ultimate static bearing stress allowable for the given configuration?