Analysis of adhesion and interface debonding in laminated safety glass

Adhesive and adhesiveless contact mechanics of elastic layers on slightly wavy rigid substrates

“…Therefore, the set of equations (8,14) allows to calculate, for given penetration ∆, the contact size a and the contact pressure distribution p (x).…”

“…Eqs. (8,18) enable us to solve the contact problem for any given value of the contact penetration ∆.…”

“…Adhesion is of crucial importance in contact mechanics, in biology and in a countless number of engineering and industrial applications, as climbing robots [1][2][3], adhesive gloves and suits [4], structural adhesives [5,6], adhesive interlayer in laminated glasses [7,8], thin coatings in orthopedic implants [9,10], medical adhesive bands [11], pressure sensitive adhesives [12][13][14], just to enumerate some of them.…”

Experimental investigation on the radial and circular crack propagation of PVB laminated glass subject to dynamic out-of-plane loading

“…However, there are few reported investigations that focused on the dynamic fracture of PVB laminated glass except some numerical simulations based on various of computational methods, such as traditional finite element analysis [7,8], extended finite element method [9], discrete element method [10] and among others. Experimental studies on dynamic fracture of PVB laminated glass available are focused on interfacial decohesion and large deformation in cracked laminates [11][12][13][14] which provide important insights into the dynamic failure of PVB laminated glass.…”

Numerical analysis of the peel test for characterisation of interfacial debonding in laminated glass

“…Sha et al [5] were the first to use numerical analysis for this purpose, by use of cohesive zone elements. In a cohesive zone, all damage mechanisms around the crack tip are projected onto the interface, resulting in a constitutive relation in the form of a traction-separation law.…”