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Additional Interface Corner Toughness Data for an Adhesively-Bonded Butt Joint

Guess, T.R.; Reedy, E.D.

Over a period of 15 months, five sets of adhesively-bonded butt joints were fabricated and tested. This previously unreported data is used to assess the variability of measured interface corner toughness values, K{sub ac}, as well as the dependence of K{sub ac} on surface preparation. A correlation between K{sub ac} and the size of the adhesive failure zone is also noted.