A damage model to predict the durability of bonded assemblies – Part II: Parameter identification and preliminary results for accelerated ageing tests

A new damage model has been developed in order to predict the durability of adhesively bonded joints. This model, whose theoretical basis is outlined in a previous paper (part I), takes into account both bulk and interfacial damaging behaviours as well as their interactions. The present paper (part II) is dedicated first to describing a parametric study in which we attempted to understand the physical meaning of the model parameters and second to elaborating on an identification procedure for the theoretical parameters. Preliminary results are presented for accelerated ageing tests.