For automotive coatings that are a multi-layered polymer composite structure, the impact-
induced failure brings harm to the appearance, corrosion resistance, and safety of a vehicle …

Bilayer soft actuators composed of a liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) film and a soft substrate
have been widely used in soft robotics, bioengineering, and other fields. The existence of …

Composite materials and multi-material components often fail at their internal
interfaces/adhesive joints, and hence special attention should be given to such catastrophic …

In this work, the failure of rubber-like materials by cavitation is investigated. Under local
triaxial loading states, as they can occur in confined geometries of adhesive bonds, the …

Quasi-static peeling of a horizontal elastica (the tape) from another horizontal elastica (the
beam) supported by a pinned end and a roller end is analyzed. Bending resistance is …

In this work, a new testing method for adhesive joints under tensile loading is presented.
This method comprised three pull-off tests and one peel test in one single loading step …

In this work, starting from an approach previously proposed by the Authors, we put forward
an extension to the large deformation regime of the dimensionally-reduced formulation for …

In this work, extended finite elements models of SiCN/SiCO/SiCN/PEOX multi-films
composites with various Young's modulus of SiCO are established, and their interfacial …

Various peel-off experiments can be used to determine the adhesion strength of various
fibres. Among them was the'T'type peel-off test, which measures the adhesions between …