The peeling apart of layered materials is common in nature and has been used by humans
in myriad applications since prehistoric times. Over the past century, a wide range of peel …

The use of adhesive joints has gathered increasing interest in recent years due to their
advantages over conventional bonding techniques, namely lighter structures and decreased …

The need to design lightweight structures and the increased use of lightweight materials in
industrial fields, have led to wide use of adhesive bonding. Recent work relating to finite …

The effect of bondline thickness, from 130μm to 790μm, on the fatigue and quasi-static
fracture behavior of aluminum joints bonded using a toughened epoxy adhesive was …

Cohesive zone models are explored in order to study cleavage fracture in adhesive bonded
joints. A mode I cohesive model is defined which correlates the tensile traction and the …

Tapered-double cantilever-beam joints were manufactured from aluminium-alloy substrates
bonded together using a single-part, rubber-toughened, epoxy adhesive. The mode I …

This work presents a survey of computational methods for adhesive contact focusing on
general continuum mechanical models for attractive interactions between solids that are …

A procedure to predict fatigue crack growth in bonded joints is developed in this work within
the framework of cohesive zone modelling and finite element analysis. The idea is to link the …

A model is developed for predicting separation along interfaces of pressure sensitive
adhesives. Many authors have used the cohesive zone approach to solve such problems …

In recent years cohesive elements, coupled with a finite-element analysis (FEA) approach,
have become increasingly popular for simulating both delamination in composite materials …