Abstract
Bonded joints exhibit high mechanical performances but also suffer from poor durability in humid and/or hot environmental conditions. Indeed, delayed failures can be observed under stationary loading conditions due to chemical aggression but also due to creep failure. Despite bonded joints are generally loaded in shear, discussion on crack initiation and propagation condition under mode II stationary loading condition are lacking. Then, a semi-analytical model is proposed here to determine response of a End loaded Split (ELS) like test specimen considering viscoelastic-viscoplastic interface behavior, stationary loading condition and steady-state crack propagation regime. From these simulations, the evolution of crack propagation rate as a function of macroscopic loading intensity is obtained. The intrinsic nature of such “master curves” is finally discussed.
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