The present work has a two-fold objective:(i) to critically review the methods for fracture
mode decoupling in unconventional laboratory specimens, such as the asymmetric double …

In the problem of a crack lying in the interface between two dissimilar materials, the
mathematical expressions for the stress and displacement fields, derived from linear elastic …

Laboratory specimens used to assess the interfacial fracture toughness of layered materials
can be classified as either conventional or unconventional. We call conventional a specimen …

This book presents an analytical framework for calculating the fracture toughness of
generally layered beam structures with an elastically coupled response and hygrothermal …

This paper presents some preliminary results of our ongoing work that elaborates on the
idea of experimentally validating analytical expressions that can potentially be used as …