Adhesive joint analysis under tensile impact loads by cohesive zone modelling

The use of bonded joints in industrial applications has been increasing in recent years, to the detriment of traditional bonding methods such as welding, brazing, and bolted and riveted joints. In many practical situations, such as vehicle crashes, adhesive joints are subjected to impact loads. However, the knowledge on the joint behaviour for this loading is much less addressed in the literature that the typically studied static case. This work...