Fracturing Characteristics of Adhesive Joints.
Abstract
Experience in the commercial design and manufacture of adhesive joints has indicated that the most severe condition for adhesive joint fracture is the cleavage or pure mode-I condition. This commercial practice experience has been verified by the relatively small amount of well characterized fracture mechanics (FM) test data on pure mode-I and mixed mode adhesive specimens. In fact, the lack of evidence for a degrading effect of shear loading is one of the most compelling reasons that more effort was not expended on mixed-mode adhesive FM methodology in the earlier studies. A second reason was that development of suitable mixed-mode specimens is considerably more difficult than has been the case for pure mode-I loading. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1978
- Accession Number
- ADA059440
Entities
People
- E. J. Ripling
- Sheldon Mostovoy
Organizations
- Materials Research Laboratory