The investigation of the tensile behaviors of single L‐joint type bonded with adhesive and rivet

In this study, tensile behaviour of single “L” type joints was investigated experimentally and numerically. Aluminium pieces with 2 mm, 3 mm and 4 mm thicknesses were used as joint materials. Overlap lengths were chosen as 10 mm, 15 mm and 20 mm. Joints were executed with two different rivets as steel and aluminium and 3 M 2216 epoxy based adhesive. Experiments were carried out by means of Shimadzu universal testing machine with 5 kN load cell. While the numerical study was carried out, using ANSYS Workbench, finite element analysis program, models were formed with the same properties as experimental works. Results showed that the samples with 20 mm overlap length had the highest strength of all models. Models with steel rivet had higher strength than models with aluminium rivets for all overlap lengths.