Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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768183 | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2006 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
Fatigue crack growth (FCG) tests have been carried out on adhesively bonded compact tension-shear (CTS) specimens to assess the behaviour of a structural adhesive under Mixed Mode I/II conditions. The fractographic analysis revealed that energy dissipation mechanisms due to inelastic phenomena like bulk plastic deformation and crazing are more pronounced in Mode I than in Mixed Mode and Mode II. This is reflected by a FCG rate that increases going from Mode I to Mode II for a given value of the range of strain energy release rate, ΔG.
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Authors
A. Pirondi, G. Nicoletto,