Debonding failure of cored composite materials is investigated herein. A new test method that subjects the bondline between the core and face sheets to a shear stress singularity is presented and studied analytically by laminated beam shear deformation theory and experimentally on glass/polyester face sheets on balsa wood core sandwich beams.
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