Advanced composite materials are finding increasing application in aerospace, marine and
many other industries due to the advantages in performance, structural efficiency and cost …

High performance structures require the use of different materials to meet their demanding
requirements. Especially fibre reinforced polymer composites are nowadays often bonded to …

The paper introduces a mechanical model of the asymmetric double cantilever beam
(ADCB) test, usable to assess the mixed-mode interlaminar fracture toughness of composite …

The current chapter presents results of the analysis of the mode I and mode II
interfacialfracture behaviors of a metal-to-composite adhesive jointbetween thin titanium and …

An analytical framework is presented to calculate the mode I and II components of the strain
energy release rate (SERR) of a delamination between two generally layered sub …

An improved method based on the first-order shear deformable plate theory is developed to
calculate the energy release rate and stress intensity factor for a crack at the interface of a bi …

Novel interface deformable bi-layer beam theory is developed to account for local effects at
crack tip of bi-material interface by modeling a bi-layer composite beam as two separate …

A nonlocal linear elastic fracture formulation is presented based on a discrete layer
approach and an interface model to study cracked nanobeams. The formulation uses the …

In this paper semi-analytical expressions are derived for the energy release rate and the
stress intensity factors of edge-cracked homogeneous and orthotropic layers subject to …

In the present paper we provide a method to determine the load causing delamination along
an interface in a composite structure. The method is based on the elastic interface model …