Recent Advances in Bonded Composite Repair Technology for Me

Recent Advances in Bonded Composite REpair Technology for Metallic Aircraft Components
A.A. Baker and R.J. Chester

Advanced fibre composites such as boron/epoxy can be employed as adhesively bonded patches to repair or to reinforce metallic aerospace components. This approach provides many advantages over conventional mechanically fastened metallic patches, including improved fatigue behaviour, reduced corrosion and easy conformance to complex aerodynamic contours. Bonded composite repairs have been shown to provide high levels of bond durability under aircraft operating conditions. The recent application of bonded composite repairs to military and civil aircraft is described.

This paper was a keynote presentation at the International Conference on Advanced Composite Materials.

Publisher: TMS
Product Format: PDF
Pages: 45-49
Date Published: February 1, 1993
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