| Incidence of breaks and leakages in fluid transportation pipes is a common issue in Iran.
Depending on the type of pipes and environmental conditions, the breaks in the pipes may
be caused by different factors, including mechanical damages, internal or external corrosions,
failures, or applied stresses. In the repair of damaged pipes, there are several strategies for
rebuilding and implementing the pipeline, most of which are replacing the entire exhausted
pipe, using weld clamps and using composite patches. In recent years, the use of composite
patches has been accepted as a low‐cost, permanent, and standard method for different pipe
sections with the least interruption in transportation. In the present study, the boding strength
of glass fibers-reinforced epoxy composite patches on a structural steel substrate were
investigated and optimal conditions of achieving enhanced adhesion strength of composite
patches on the steel substrate were determined, using the Tagochi method at various curing
temperatures and times. In this regard, the tensile and shear strength of epoxy, cyanoacrylate,
and methacrylate‐based glues as three kinds of appropriate polymers for bonding the epoxy
composite on the steel substrates were tested. The mechanical strength measurements and
fractured interfaces evaluations using a scanning electron microscopy (SEM) revealed that the
methacrylate-based glue has the better adhesion strength to the steel substrate. |