“…The crack length is strongly affected by the adhesive deformation, leading to a calculation error in the fracture energy. Therefore, the difference between the theoretical crack length and the measured one was investigated, and the crack length correction in the corrected beam theory (CBT) [10][11][12][13] and an effective crack length, namely compliance-based beam method (CBBM), [14,15] have been respectively derived. Replacing the adhesive layer with an elastic foundation, i.e., the Winkler foundation, closed form solutions were obtained for the DCB [15][16][17][18] and other test methods [19,20].…”