Enhancing the performance of the T-peel test for thin and flexible adhered laminates

Symmetrically bonded thin and flexible T-peel specimens, when tested on vertical travel machines, can be subject to significant gravitational loading, with the associated asymmetry and mixed-mode failure during peeling. This can cause erroneously high experimental peel forces to be recorded which le...

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Main Authors: Parks, David Moore, Padhye, Nikhil, Slocum, Alexander H, Trout, Bernhardt L
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Physics (AIP) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107784
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