Measuring the mode I adhesive fracture energy, GIC, of structural adhesive joints: the results of an international round-robin

By B. Blackman, A. Kinloch, M. Paraschi, W. S. Teo. 2003

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The results of an inter-laboratory round-robin test programme designed to validate a new protocol for determining the mode I adhesive fracture energy, GIC, of structural adhesive joints are presented. The analysis schemes employed by the protocol are described and critically compared in the light of these results. The importance of a number of validity checks on the data analyses are discussed and the accuracy and precision of the test method is determined according to existing International standards. The values of GIC deduced were shown to be independent of the test geometry of the joint (i.e. DCB versus TDCB) but dependent upon the substrate material used. Additional studies have shown that the substrate dependence was due to the cured adhesive in the different joints possessing different values of glass transition temperature.

Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanics of Materials

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In Civil and Structural Engineering

1. B. Blackman
2. A. Kinloch

In Mechanics of Materials

1. B. Blackman
2. A. Kinloch
3. M. Paraschi
4. James G. Williams
5. M. D. De Moura
6. R. Campilho
7. J. Gonçalves

Citations in the corpus

• The fracture behaviour of structural adhesives under high rates of testing (2009, background): “Whilst the standards developed for the DCB and TDCB test specimens work well at slow rates of loading [6], agreed standards do not currently exist for testing at high rates.”
• The determination of the mode II adhesive fracture resistance, GIIC, of structural adhesive joints: an effective crack length approach (2005, methodology): “Following a multi-laboratory round-robin exercise [1], this work led to the publication of a new British Standard [2] for the determination of GIC.”