Mode I fracture toughness determination and environmental durability evaluation of adhesive bonds by wedge test
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This paper presents a study of a method for determining the fracture toughness of adhesive bonds under Mode I loading using the wedge test. The slope of adhesively bonded specimen arms at loading points was used to provide an effective crack length for the wedge test specimen. A simple expression was derived based on beam theory for the Mode I energy release rate. Finite element analyses were conducted on wedge specimens with a range of material and geometrical properties. Good agreement was found between the energy release rates from the beam theory-based expression and the virtual crack closure technique (VCCT). A comparison of various energy release rate expressions showed that the present expression was more accurate than the other expressions available in the literature. The results of this study suggest that the environmental durability of adhesive bonds with composite adherends as well as metallic adherends can be assessed in terms of their fracture toughness using the present method. Experiments under hot and humid conditions were performed on wedge specimens with adherends made of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite laminate and titanium alloy, and the fracture toughness results were obtained.
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OpenAlex topics: Mechanical Behavior of Composites · Fatigue and fracture mechanics · Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete
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