Review of fatigue of bulk structural adhesives and thick adhesive joints

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Review of fatigue of bulk structural adhesives and thick adhesive joints

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Understanding the mechanisms of adhesive wear for heterogeneous materials through atomistic simulations

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Crack Nucleation in the Adhesive Wear of an Elastic-Plastic Half-Space

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Two-dimensional analytical stress distribution model for unbalanced FRP composite single-lap joints

Durability and fatigue performance of a typical cold-curing structural adhesive in bridge construction

Micro-mechanical insights into the dynamics of crack propagation in snow fracture experiments

Design and Development of Injectable, Tough and Intrinsically-Adhesive Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications

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