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The properties of the interface (the cohesive zone parameters) clearly has an influence on the overall collapse<br />

response of sandwich structures. To understand the influence in greater detail, we investigated the effect<br />

of interface toughness on the collapse mechanism. Generally, increasing the interface toughness was shown to<br />

have a stabilizing effect on the collapse. In some cases, increasing the (non-dimensional) interface fracture<br />

toughness changed the snap-back into a stable collapse, where both load and strain are monotonically increasing.<br />

This was seen for the longest crack lengths analyzed, ‘ 0/L = 0.1, in Fig. 16. For the shorter crack lengths<br />

(‘ 0/L = 0.075 and ‘ 0/L = 0.05, Figs. 14 and 15) increasing the interface toughness can change the snap-back<br />

curve into an unstable curve that displays a continuously increasing end-displacement but a decreasing load<br />

during the collapse. The curves in Figs. 14–16 show that as the initial crack length is increased a lower (nondimensional)<br />

interface fracture toughness is required to avoid the 1st snap-back.<br />

Acknowledgments<br />

The author wish to acknowledge Prof. Viggo Tvergaard and Dr. Lars P. Mikkelsen for inspiring discussions.<br />

The work was supported by the Frame Work Programme ‘‘Interface Design of Composite Materials’’<br />

(Danish Research Council (STVF)), Grant No. 26-03-0160.<br />

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