Use of a cohesive-zone model to analyze the fracture of a fiber-reinforced polymer-matrix composite

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Determination of mixed mode cohesive laws (2006, methodology): “Note, that with the definitions (1) - (3), we adopt the common assumption that the local cohesive stresses depend on the local crack openings but not the opening-path history [7, 8, 10].”
The roles of toughness and cohesive strength on crack deflection at interfaces (2006, background): “[52] S Li, M D Thouless, A M Waas, J A Schroeder, and P D Zavattieri.”
An improved description of the exponential Xu and Needleman cohesive zone law for mixed-mode decohesion (2006, methodology): “Li et al. [24, 25 ] used initial rigid and piece-wise linear uncoupled cohesive zone laws to predict the fracture of polymer–matrix composites under mode-I loading.”
Direct extraction of rate-dependent traction–separation laws for polyurea/steel interfaces (2009, background): “Most approaches for measuring traction–separation laws rely on iterative comparisons between measured properties [e.g., an R-curve (Flinn et al., 1993), a crack opening profile (Cox and Marshall, 1991; Mello and Liechti, 2006) or a load–displacement curve ( Li et al., 2005a )] with predictions based”
Mixed-mode cohesive-zone models for fracture of an adhesively bonded polymer–matrix composite (2006, methodology): “Following a similar approach used for investigating the mode-I fracture of this same adhesively-bonded system, the numerical calculations were performed in two stages [Li et al., 2005b].”