Browsing by Author "Atahan, M. Gokhan"

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Comparative Study on Bending Behavior and Damage Analysis of 3D-Printed Sandwich Core Designs With Bio-Inspired Reinforcements
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2024) Atahan, M. Gokhan; Erikli, Merve; Ozipek, Enes; Ozgun, Fulya
In this study, novel sandwich core designs with bio-inspired reinforcements were proposed and their bending behaviors were comparatively examined. The geometrical shapes of alligator osteoderm and chambered nautilus shell were utilized as bio-inspired reinforcements for sandwich core structures. Sandwich core structures were produced through the additive manufacturing method. Experimental tests and finite element analysis were performed to determine the bending performances of the proposed sandwich core structures. The loadcarrying capacity, deformation ability, damage-tolerant capability, energy absorption, and damage mechanisms of the proposed sandwich core structures were comparatively investigated through experimental and numerical methods. The orthotropic material model and Hashin's damage criterion were used in the numerical model of 3D-printed sandwich core structures to consider the effect of the filament raster orientation on the elastic and damage behavior of the sandwich core structures. Compared to the classical honeycomb sandwich core structure, while bio-inspired reinforcements improved the load-carrying capacity and damage-tolerant capability of sandwich core structures, they reduced the energy absorption ability of sandwich core structures due to reducing the vertical deformation ability of sandwich core structures. Bio-inspired reinforcements significantly affected the stress distribution and damage behavior of the sandwich core structures. They reduced von Mises stress level at the outer cell edges of the sandwich core structures and caused reinforcement damage instead of outer cell damage.
Crashworthiness Evaluation of 3D-Printed Hybrid-Design Multi-Cell Energy Absorbers Under Lateral Compression for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(Springer Heidelberg, 2025) Atahan, M. Gokhan; Zeybek, Halil; Ozturk, Sezgin
Energy absorbers can be strategically integrated into critical areas of unmanned aerial vehicles to protect their structural integrity and electronic components in the event of an accident. In this study, hybrid-design multi-cell energy absorber configurations were proposed, and their crashworthiness performance and collapse mechanisms were comparatively analyzed. Hybrid energy absorbers were designed considering circular, square, hexagonal, and re-entrant unit cell geometries. The energy absorber configurations were produced via additive manufacturing. Compared to the single-cell circular energy absorber, the hybrid-design multi-cell approach resulted in a higher peak crushing force value, while offering considerable enhancements in other crashworthiness parameters. Configuration 3 is recommended for use in energy absorber applications in unmanned aerial vehicles due to its superior crashworthiness performance. Moreover, in hybrid-design multi-cell energy absorbers, the selection of layer geometries significantly influences deformation capability. Compared to the single-cell circular configuration (Configuration 1), Configuration 3 demonstrated superior crashworthiness performance by increasing the MCF, EA, and SEA values by 7.47, 4.47, and 1.41 times, respectively.
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Effect of Bio-Mimicked Surface Texturing on the Shear Strength of Additively Manufactured Metal Single-Lap Joints: An Innovative Approach
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2025) Atahan, M. Gokhan; Maskery, Ian; Ashcroft, Ian; Apalak, M. Kemal; Pappas, Athanasios
In this paper, we investigate the mechanical performance of metal single-lap joints featuring bio-mimicking surface textures. The inspiration for the surface textures was the foot and toe of the gecko, a creature whose ability to climb smooth shear surfaces is attributed to the mesoand micro-structures of its feet. Three surface textures were investigated: a hexagonal texture based on the central region of the foot, a lamellae-like texture based on the toe, and a mixed texture of both. Metal adherends with these textures were produced using the laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing method. Finite element analysis was performed to examine the influence of surface texture on stress distribution in the adhesive layer, while mechanical testing was used to determine joint strength and failure mode. Compared to the as- printed surface texture, bio-mimicking surface textures improved the wettability of the bonding surfaces, and significantly improved the lap shear strength of the joints. Mechanical interlocking due to surface texture was more effective than the increase in bonding surface area in enhancing joint strength. The bio-mimicking textures improved the damage tolerance capacity of the joints by reducing local stress concentrations at the overlap edges of the adhesive layer and ensured that the adhesive failure type was mixed mode due to the mechanical interlocking effect. The presented novel bio-mimicked surface texture method offers promising results for both industrial applications and scientific studies.
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Effect of Multi-Cell Approach on Crashworthiness Performance of 3D-Printed Thin-Walled Structures Under Lateral Compression Loading for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Applications
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2025) Atahan, M. Gokhan; Zeybek, Halil
Recent technological advancements in unmanned aerial vehicles have led to their use in various military and civilian applications. However, weather conditions, operator faults, and electronic or mechanical problems can result in unmanned aerial vehicle accidents. In the event of an accident, energy-absorbing structures can be placed in specific regions of vehicles to protect sensitive and costly cameras, sensors, and cargo from damage, while also preserving the vehicle's structural integrity. In this study, thin-walled energy absorbers with circular, square, hexagonal, and reentrant geometries were proposed, and the experimental investigation focused on the effect of increasing the number of cells on their crashworthiness performance and deformation mechanisms. Lateral compressive load was applied to thin-walled structures produced by fused deposition modeling technology using advanced polylactic acid filament. Experimental results showed that the triple-cell reentrant thin-walled structure demonstrated promising results for unmanned aerial vehicle applications, as it exhibited the highest mean crushing force, energy absorption, and specific energy absorption values. Thanks to the unique geometry of the reentrant structure, a gradual collapse mode was observed, and as a result, the triple-cell reentrant structure exhibited high energy absorption performance.
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Experimental Investigation of Oblique Impact Behavior of Adhesively Bonded Composite Single-Lap Joints
(Springer, 2022) Atahan, M. Gokhan; Apalak, M. Kemal
Determining the impact behavior of adhesive joints allows the designing of high-strength joints. Therefore, the dynamic behavior of adhesive joints has recently become a trending research topic. The study aims to examine the impact behavior and damage mechanism of the adhesively bonded composite joints, taking into account different impact angles. The mechanical behavior of adhesively bonded glass-fiber reinforced laminated composite single-lap joints under bending impact load was experimentally determined via a drop weight impact test machine. The effects of impact angle (theta = 0 degrees, 10 degrees, 20 degrees, 30 degrees), fiber angle (phi = 0 degrees, 45 degrees, 90 degrees), and overlap length (b = 25, 40 mm) on the impact behavior of the joints were investigated. These parameters were determined to affect the impact behavior of the joint and the damage characterization. The highest contact force occurred in the joints with 0 degrees fiber angle having the highest bending strength, and the lowest contact force occurred in the joints with 90 degrees fiber angle having the lowest bending strength. Due to the increase in the impact angle, the maximum contact force value in the joints decreased, while the total contact time increased. The increase in overlap length had little effect on the maximum contact force and total contact time, and the vertical displacement decreased due to the increasing bending stiffness. The unbalanced joint with 45 degrees fiber angle was forced to rotate around its axis due to in-plane unbalanced shear stress distributions induced by the bending impact load. The unbalanced shear stress distribution caused shear damage at the fiber-matrix interface and the top composite-adhesive interfaces. In joints with 0 degrees fiber angle, the impact energy was mostly met with adhesive damage, while the composite adherend was damaged as a result of increased shear stresses in the matrix region for the joints with 90 degrees fiber angle.
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Finite Element Analysis of Low-Speed Oblique Impact Behavior of Adhesively Bonded Composite Single-Lap Joints
(Springer, 2023) Atahan, M. Gokhan; Apalak, M. Kemal
The development of a realistic numerical model that predicts the impact behavior of adhesively bonded composite joints is important for many industrial sectors such as automotive, aerospace, and marine. In this study, it was aimed to develop a numerical model that can predict the low-velocity oblique impact behavior of composite single-lap joints close to the experimental results. The validation of the proposed numerical model was carried out with the results of the previously experimentally tested joints. In explicit finite element analysis, the orthotropic material model and Hashin's damage criterion were used in the numerical model of composite adherends. The adhesive region was divided into three different regions. The cohesive zone model (CZM) was used to determine the damage initiation and propagation in the upper and lower interface regions of adhesive. The middle region of the adhesive between the two cohesive interfaces was modeled with an elastic-plastic material model to reflect the plastic material behavior of the adhesive in the analysis. The effects of impact angle, fiber orientation, and overlap length on adhesive damage initiation and propagation were investigated in detail. There is a good agreement between the numerical and experimental results, considering the contact force-time variations and composite and adhesive damage. The impact angle and fiber angle had a significant effect on the impact behavior of the composite joints and the adhesive damage initiation and propagation. The increase in impact angle and fiber angle caused a decrease in the maximum contact force value. Adhesive damage propagation patterns varied according to the composite fiber orientation. In addition, since the shear toughness of the adhesive is higher than its tensile toughness, the amount of adhesive damage and damage propagation rate decreased as the impact angle increased.
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Loading-Rate Effect on Tensile and Bending Strength of 3D-Printed Polylactic Acid Adhesively Bonded Joints
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2022) Atahan, M. Gokhan; Apalak, M. Kemal
Additive manufacturing provides the production of many machine parts and components with complex geometries. The adhesive bonding technique can be alternative method for joining parts produced with additive manufacturing. This experimental study investigates the applicability of the adhesive bonding technique for PLA (polylactic acid) adherends produced with additive manufacturing and especially the effects of loading rate on the strength of 3D-printed PLA adhesive single-lap joints under tensile, three-point bending (with shear) and four-point bending (no shear effect) loadings. Both PLA and adhesive tensile test specimens exhibited a better strength but lower failure strain with increasing loading rate. PLA had better mechanical behaviour in the raster orientation than those in the layer-build direction. The strength of adhesive single-lap joints improved slightly with increasing loading rate for the tensile and three-point bending tests whilst a decrease of strength and an improvement of bending stiffness were observed for the four-point bending test. Failure initiated at the free edge of the top adherend-adhesive interface for all tests, and propagated along this interface for both bending tests whilst a sudden through-the-thickness failure of top adherend occurred for tensile load after a small interfacial damage propagation. The failure propagation appeared in a wavy form for the three-point bending test whilst it was along the top adherend-adhesive interface for the four-point bending test. Digital Image Correlation (DIC) method for tensile tests showed that the peeling and shear strains were more critical and concentrated around both free edges of adherend-adhesive interfaces; thus, at the right free edge of the top adherend-adhesive interface and at the left free edge of the bottom adherend-adhesive interface.
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Low Velocity Oblique Impact Behavior of Adhesively Bonded Single Lap Joints
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019) Atahan, M. Gokhan; Apalak, M. Kemal; Atahan, M. Gokhan; Apalak, M. Kemal
This article addresses the low velocity oblique impact behavior of adhesively bonded single lap joints, and the effects of adherend strength and plastic ductility, impact energy, overlap length and oblique impact angle on the damage initiation and propagation in the adhesive layer. The experimental contact force-time, contact force-central displacement variations, axial separation lengths through the adhesive layer and permanent central deflections of overlap region, adhesive fracture surfaces were evaluated in detail. In the explicit finite element analyses, the adhesive layer was divided into three zones: upper and lower adhesive interfaces and the adhesive layer between these interfaces. The adhesive interfaces were modeled with cohesive zone approach to predict the failure initiation and propagation along both upper and lower adhesive-adherend interfaces, whereas the elastic-plastic material model was implemented for the middle adhesive region between the upper and lower adhesive interfaces. The proposed finite element model predicted reasonably the damage initiation and propagation through the adhesive layer, and the contact force-time/central displacement variations. Especially, the test and analysis results were compared with those of the adhesively bonded single lap joints under a normal transverse impact load. Increasing oblique impact angle resulted in lower peak contact forces, shorter contact durations and earlier damage initiation and propagation through the adhesive layer. The peak contact forces increased, the contact duration decreased with increasing impact energy. The strength and plastic deformation capability of adherend materials also affected the damage initiation and propagation through the adhesive layer as well as the after-impact joint geometry.
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Low-Speed Bending Impact Behavior of Adhesively Bonded Single-Lap Joints
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017) Atahan, M. Gokhan; Apalak, M. Kemal
This study addresses the low-speed impact behavior of adhesively bonded single-lap joints. An explicit dynamic finite element analysis was conducted in order to determine the damage initiation and propagation in the adhesive layers of adhesive single-lap joints under a bending impact load. A cohesive zone model was implemented to predict probable failure initiation and propagation along adhesive-adherend interfaces whereas an elasto-plastic material model was used for the adhesive zone between upper and lower adhesive interfaces as well as the adherends. The effect of the plastic deformation ability of adherend material on the damage mechanism of the adhesive layer was also studied for two aluminum materials Al 2024-T3 and Al 5754-0 having different strength and plastic deformation ability. The effects of impact energy (3 and 11 J) and the overlap length (25 and 40 mm) were also investigated. The predicted contact force-time, contact force-central displacement variations, the damage initiation and propagation mechanism were verified with experimental ones. The SEM and macroscope photographs of the adhesive fracture surfaces were similar to those of the explicit dynamic finite element analysis.
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Low-Speed Bending Impact Behaviour of Adhesively Bonded Dissimilar Single-Lap Joints
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2022) Atahan, M. Gokhan; Apalak, M. Kemal
This study investigates the low-speed bending impact behaviour of adhesively bonded dissimilar single-lap joints and the effects of both strength and plastic deformation capability of adherend material on adhesive failure. Dissimilar adhesive single-lap joint specimens, such as Al 2024-T3 (top adherend)-Al 5754-0 (bottom) and Al 5754-0 (top)-Al 2024-T3 (bottom), were tested at two impact energy levels (3 and 11 J) for two overlap lengths (25 and 40 mm). The progressive failure analysis of the adhesive layer was also conducted by the non-linear explicit finite element method. The adhesive layer was modelled with a 3D cohesive layer along with the upper and lower adhesive interfaces and a non-linear continuum adhesive region between two cohesive layers. The continuum adhesive region had elasto-plastic adhesive properties whilst the cohesive layers obeyed 3D cohesive rules. The experimental and predicted contact force-time, contact force-displacement diagrams, axial separation lengths of the failed adhesive region, permanent deflection of the bonded region, fracture surfaces were in good agreement. The strength and plastic deformation capability of adherend materials and impact energy levels affected the progressive adhesive failure behaviour. The proposed finite element model was successful reasonably in predicting the initiation and propagation of the adhesive failure.
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Low-Speed Oblique Impact Response of Adhesively Bonded Dissimilar Single-Lap Joints
(ASCE-Amer Soc Civil Engineers, 2022) Atahan, M. Gokhan; Apalak, M. Kemal
Adhesively bonded joints are widely preferred for joining similar and dissimilar materials due to the mechanical advantages they provide. As the demand for the adhesively bonded method increases, it is necessary to determine the behavior of joints under impact loads for joint design. The aim of this study was to investigate the low-speed oblique impact behavior of dissimilar single-lap joints and the effect of plastic deformation ability and strength of the adherends [(Top) Al 2024-T3-(Bottom) Al 5754-0, (Top) Al 5754-0-(Bottom) Al 2024-T3], overlap lengths (25, 40 mm), and impact energy (3, 11 J) on adhesive damage. The behavior of the joints determined by the numerical model under low-speed oblique impact was compared with experimental results. Considering the contact force-time, contact force-displacement, and adhesive damage, the numerical model was reasonably compatible with the experimental results. The damage initiation and propagation in the adhesive layer were determined by three-dimensional explicit finite-element analysis. In order to obtain suitability for the damage mechanism by observing the experimental bonding damage surfaces, the adhesive region was divided into three zones, the upper and lower adhesive interfaces and a middle adhesive layer between them. The different strength and plastic deformation ability of the adherends had a significant effect on the adhesive damage initiation and propagation. In the case of high strength and low deformation ability of the adherend material (Al 2024-T3) contacting with the impactor, a reduction of the adhesive damage occurred due to the deformation of the adherend material (bottom adherend) with low strength and high deformation capability. The oblique impact load and the different mechanical properties of the adherends greatly affected the adhesive damage initiation and propagation of single-lap joints.