High performance structures require the use of different materials to meet their demanding
requirements. Especially fibre reinforced polymer composites are nowadays often bonded to …

The present work has a two-fold objective:(i) to critically review the methods for fracture
mode decoupling in unconventional laboratory specimens, such as the asymmetric double …

An essential question to predict the structural integrity of bi-material bonded joints is how to
obtain their fracture properties under pure mode I. From open literature, it is found that the …

The fracture behavior of AA 7050-T6/CFRP adhesive joints was investigated under mode I
and II loading. Digital Image Correlation (DIC) provided precise measurements of crack …

The adhesive layer in the adhesive joints can experience different modes of loading.
Although the fracture energy of adhesive is generally considered to be a material parameter …

Bimaterial systems in which two dissimilar materials are adhesively joined by a thin
adhesive interlayer have been widely used in a variety of modern industries and …

Woven composites are well-known for their good transverse properties and for their high
fracture toughness. The damage mechanisms leading to delamination in woven composites …

Metallic (M) and polymer (P) materials as layered hybrid metal-polymer-metal (MPM)
sandwiches offer a wide range of applications by combining the advantages of both material …

The rate-dependent failure response of multi-material adhesive joints for three deformation
modes is investigated. A combination of carbon fibre reinforced polymers (CFRP) and …

In this paper, the fracture durability of composite–titanium adhesively bonded structures
exposed to seawater environment was studied experimentally and numerically. The …