“…Several researchers have characterised the mechanical performance of multi-material combinations (particularly metal-to-composite) [4,5,6,7,8,9,10]. On one hand, some of these investigations reported the influence of adherent combinations on the joint strength [11,12,13,14,15,16] while on the other hand, others examined the fracture energy, J, for multimaterial combinations [17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24]. Some researchers studied the bond behaviour as a function of the adherent material properties and their combination with brittle and ductile adhesives [25,8].…”