“…The reliability of bonded dissimilar materials has been studied with a view to reducing residual stress and obtaining the optimum geometric configuration of an interface using theoretical and numerical analyses. Previous theoretical and experimental studies (Arai, et al, 1993), (Bogy, et al, 1968), (Bogy, et al, 1971), (Hein, et al, 1971), (Inoue, et al, 1995), (Inoue, et al, 1995-11), (Inoue, et al, 1996), (Inoue, et al, 1999), (James, et al, 1989), (Kelly, et al, 1992), (Koguchi, et al, 1993), (Murata, et al, 1992), (Nakayama, et al, 2017), (Yang, et al, 1997), (Yokoi, et al, 2010), (Yokoi, et al, 2011) have shown that employing the optimum shape of an interface edge could improve the bonding strength and reliability of bonded dissimilar materials. Theoretical elastic analysis suggests that the optimum interface edge configuration leads to a disappearance of the stress singularity and a reduction in its index.…”