A combined analytical and experimental approach is presented to characterize mixed-mode fracture of hybrid material bonded interfaces under four-point bending load, and closed-form solutions of compliance and energy release rate (ERR) of the mixed-mode fracture specimens are provided. The transverse shear deformations in each sublayer of bimaterial bonded beams are included by modeling the specimen as individual Timoshenko beams, and the effect of interface crack-tip deformation on the compliance and ERR are taken into account by applying the interface deformable bilayer beam theory (flexible-joint model). The higher accuracy of the present analytical solutions for both the compliance and ERR of mixed-mode fracture specimens is manifested by comparing them with the solutions predicted by the conventional beam theory (CBT) and finite-element analysis (FEA). As an application example, the fracture of wood–fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) bonded interface is experimentally evaluated by using mixed-mode fracture specimens [i.e., four-point asymmetric end-notched flexure (4-AENF) and four-point mixed-mode bending (4-MMB)], and the corresponding values of critical ERRs are obtained. Comparisons of the compliance rate change and the resulting critical ERR based on the CBT, the present theoretical model, and FEA demonstrate that the crack-tip deformation plays an important role in accurately characterizing the mixed-mode fracture toughness of hybrid material bonded interfaces under four-point bending load.


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    Title :

    Mixed-Mode Fracture of Hybrid Material Bonded Interfaces under Four-Point Bending


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    Publication date :

    2011-04-01


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    9 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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