A unified cohesive zone model for simulating adhesive failure of composite structures and its parameter identification

It has been proven that the shape effect of different cohesive laws can not be ignored in many cases. Such an effect is further investigated and clarified in the present paper. In order to more accurately simulate the adhesive failures of composite structures, it is necessary to develop a unified cohesive zone model (CZM) capable of approaching an arbitrary existing cohesive law. Toward this end, an improved interpolation-based CZM (ICZM) has...