Fracture test for double cantilever beam of honeycomb sandwich panels

A modified double cantilever beam (DCB) test geometry is designed to investigate the fracture behavior of honeycomb sandwich panels containing embedded artificial pre-crack, and measure the strain energy release rate of the laminate facesheet/honeycomb cores interface. However, in terms of our DCB fracture test, owing to that the pre-crack does not propagate expectedly along the interface of facesheet/honeycomb core, a new fracture mode, namely IKP (initiation of interlaminar delamination, kinking into facesheet and propagation of interlaminar delamination), has been found.