Two separate sets of experiments were also performed to assess the strength of the cured adhesive material and adhesive– adherend interface under uniaxial tensile loading. In the first experiment, uniform bars of cured adhesive were made using the aforementioned procedure, and subjected to tension. The fracture type was a brittle cleavage with no apparent sign of plastic deformation in a plane almost normal to the loading direction. In the second set of experiments, pairs of aluminum bars with square cross section were bonded together by the adhesive from the smallest cross section (i.e. the ends) and were subjected to a uniaxial tensile loading. The results showed that failure due to normal stress in a case of high triaxiality occurs at the adherend–adhesive interface (i.e. adhesive failure) rather than within the bulk adhesive (i.e. cohesive failure). The tensile strength of the adherend–adhesive interface was estimated54 MPa from this set of experiments.