In the lap joint shown in Figure 1, the sheets of elastic material AB and CD are originally plane and joined completely over their mating surfaces with a very thin adhesive of fracture energy R, When tensile forces F are applied to test the joint, cracks propagate from the points C and B to cause eventual separation of the elastic sheets.
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K. Kendall (1975) studied this question.
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