Strength and performance enhancement of multilayers by spatial tailoring of adherend compliance and morphology via multimaterial jetting additive manufacturing

Ubaid, J., Wardle, B. L. and Kumar, S. (2018) Strength and performance enhancement of multilayers by spatial tailoring of adherend compliance and morphology via multimaterial jetting additive manufacturing. Scientific Reports, 8, 13592. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31819-2) (PMID:30206331) (PMCID:PMC6134147)

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Abstract

Material tailoring of bondlayer compliance is a known effective route to enhance performance of multilayers, and here spatial material-tailoring of compliance and morphology of the adherends is examined. Multimaterial jetting additive manufacturing (AM) allows us to realize for the first time compliance- and morphology-tailored adherends, and evaluate directly the mechanical performance, including failure, of the tensile-loaded multilayers. Adherend compliance-tailoring, unlike bondlayer tailoring, requires additional consideration due to adherend bending stiffness and moment influences on bondlayer stresses. We introduce anisotropic as well as layered/sandwich adherend tailoring to address this dependence. Numerical models show that for both sub-critical and critical bondlengths (at which shear-dominated load transfer occurs through the bondlayer), adherend tailoring reduces peak stresses significantly, particularly peel stress (reductions of 47–80%) that typically controls failure in such systems. At sub-critical bondlengths, the AM-enabled layered/sandwich adherend tailoring shows significantly increased experimental performance over the baseline multilayer: strength is increased by 20%, toughness by 48%, and strain-to-break by 18%, while retaining multilayer stiffness. The adherend tailoring demonstrated here adds to the techniques available to increase the performance of bonded multilayers, suggesting that adherend tailoring is particularly well-suited to additively manufactured multilayers, but can also have application in other areas such as layered electronics and advanced structural composite laminates.

Item Type:Articles
Additional Information:We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) under Award No: EX2016–000010.
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Kumar, Professor Shanmugam
Authors: Ubaid, J., Wardle, B. L., and Kumar, S.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Systems Power and Energy
Journal Name:Scientific Reports
Publisher:Nature Research
ISSN:2045-2322
ISSN (Online):2045-2322
Copyright Holders:Copyright © The Author(s) 2018
First Published:First published in Scientific Reports 8:13592
Publisher Policy:Reproduced under a Creative Commons licence

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