Following an earlier paper concerning the role of shrinkage stress on the environmental fracture of adhesive joints, further work has been carried out to investigate the factors which control and limit the rate of interfacial crack growth. The fracture surfaces have been examined using scanning electron microscopy and data from bulk epoxy resin specimens has been obtained for comparison with the results from adhesive specimens. This has allowed a model for slow, water induced crack growth to be proposed.
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