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The problem of a crack embedded in a layer sandwiched between two elastic adherends is analysed accounting for the influence material property mismatch on the crack tip plastic deformation, which is contained in the layer. The cohesive crack model developed by Dugdale and Barrenblatt is adopted to model the strip yielding behaviour in a constrained layer. It is found that, due to the constraint imparted by elastic adherends with higher moduli, the near tip plastic deformation exhibits a sharp transition (plastic zone grows faster than the square of stress intensity factor) from small scale to large scale yielding. Because the region of singularity dominance for a crack embedded in a layer is generally much smaller than the layer thickness when the layer has a modulus much lower than the adherends, the prevailing failure mode of most bonded joints should be under large scale yielding conditions. A model based on energy balance is proposed to determine the fracture energy of bonded joints under such condition, taking into account of the plastic dissipation in the constrained layer. Comparison with experimental results demonstrates that the theory correctly predicts the dependence of fracture toughness on layer thickness as observed in experiments.
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Wang, C.H. (1998). On the fracture of constrained layers. In: Knauss, W.G., Schapery, R.A. (eds) Recent Advances in Fracture Mechanics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2854-6_12
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