1. Fracture analysis of an adhesively bonded sandwich beam under Mode-I loading.
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HUANG, SONG-JENG and LIN, YUE-CHUNG
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FINITE element method , *NUMERICAL analysis , *ADHESIVES , *ADHESIVE cements - Abstract
In this paper, an analytical closed-form solution for Mode-I energy release rate of an adhesively bonded sandwich beam is derived from the modified elastic foundation model. For validation purpose, a model based on the finite element method (FEM) was also constructed using the modified crack closure integral technique to calculate the compliance and Mode-I energy release rate of the sandwich beam. Comparison between the closed-form solution and the FEM solution showed a good agreement. The results of calculations also showed a significant effect of the adhesive layer of the sandwich beam on fracture analysis. This means that the effect of the adhesive layer of the sandwich beam cannot be ignored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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