scholarly journals On the total electro-mechanical potential energy and energy release rate at the interface crack tips in an initially stressed sandwich plate-strip with piezoelectric face and elastic core layers

2016 ◽  
Vol 88-89 ◽  
pp. 119-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.D. Akbarov ◽  
N. Yahnioglu
Keyword(s):  
Potential Energy ◽  
Energy Release Rate ◽  
Energy Release ◽  
Interface Crack ◽  
Release Rate ◽  
Sandwich Plate ◽  
Elastic Core ◽  
Crack Tips ◽  
Plate Strip

Integral Representation of Energy Release Rate in Graded Materials

2006 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 1046-1048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z.-H. Jin ◽  
C. T. Sun
Keyword(s):  
Potential Energy ◽  
Energy Release Rate ◽  
Energy Release ◽  
Release Rate ◽  
Plastic Material ◽  
Contour Integral ◽  
Material System ◽  
Graded Materials ◽  
Elastic Plastic Material ◽  
Graded Interlayer

It is well known that, for homogeneous materials, the path-independent J contour integral is the (potential) energy release rate. For general nonhomogeneous, or graded materials, such a contour integral as the energy release rate does not exist. This work presents a rigorous derivation of the extended J integral for general graded materials from the potential energy variation with crack extension. Effects of crack shielding and amplification due to a graded interlayer in an elastic-plastic material system are discussed in terms of this integral.

Analysis of Branched Interface Cracks

1990 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 887-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Mukai ◽  
R. Ballarini ◽  
G. R. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Energy Release Rate ◽  
Energy Release ◽  
Interface Crack ◽  
Finite Length ◽  
Release Rate ◽  
Rate Ratio ◽  
Maximum Energy ◽  
Crack Branching ◽  
Maximum Energy Release ◽  
Branch Crack

A solution is presented for the problem of a finite length crack branching off the interface between two bonded dissimilar isotropic materials. Results are presented in terms of the ratio of the energy release rate of a branched interface crack to the energy release rate of a straight interface crack with the same total length. It is found that this ratio reaches a maximum when the interface crack branches into the softer material. Longer branches tend to have smaller maximum energy release rate ratio angles indicating that all else being equal, a branch crack will tend to turn back parallel to the interface as it grows.

Analysis of Potential Energy Release Rate of Composite Laminate Based on Timoshenko Beam Theory

2007 ◽  
Vol 334-335 ◽  
pp. 513-516
Author(s):  
Kyohei Kondo
Keyword(s):  
Potential Energy ◽  
Energy Release Rate ◽  
Energy Release ◽  
Timoshenko Beam ◽  
Release Rate ◽  
Double Cantilever Beam ◽  
Beam Theory ◽  
Timoshenko Beam Theory ◽  
Beam Specimen ◽  
Cracked Beam

The Timoshenko beam theory is used to model each part of cracked beam and to calculate the potential energy release rate. Calculations are given for the double cantilever beam specimen, which is simulated as two separate beams connected elastically along the uncracked interface.

The Mixed Mode I and II Interface Crack in Piezoelectromagneto–Elastic Anisotropic Bimaterials

2006 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 614-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Li ◽  
G. A. Kardomateas
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Energy Release Rate ◽  
Energy Release ◽  
Interface Crack ◽  
Release Rate ◽  
Plane Deformation ◽  
Crack Problem ◽  
Crack Tip ◽  
Electro Magnetic ◽  
Anisotropic Bimaterials

Taking the electric–magnetic field inside the interface crack into account, the interface crack problem of dissimilar piezoelectromagneto (PEMO)–elastic anisotropic bimaterials under in-plane deformation is investigated. The conditions to decouple the in-plane and anti-plane deformation is presented for PEMO–elastic biaterials with a symmetry plane. Using the extended Stroh’s dislocation theory of two-dimensional space and the analytic continuition principle of complex analysis, the interface crack problem is turned into a nonhomogeneous Hilbert equation in matrix notation. Four possible eigenvalues as well as four eigenvectors for the fundamental solution to the corresponding homogeneous Hilbert equation are found, so are four modes of singularities for the fields around the interface crack tip. These singularities are shown to have forms of r−(1∕2)±iϵ1 and r−(1∕2)±iϵ2, in which the bimaterial constants ϵ1 and ϵ2 are proven to be real numbers for practical dissimilar PEMO–elastic bimaterials. Compared with the solution for the interface crack of dissimilar elastic bimaterials without electro–magnetic properties, two new additional singularities are discovered for the interface crack in the PEMO–elastic bimaterial media. The electric–magnetic field inside the crack is solved by employing the “energy method,” which is based on finding the stationary point of the saddle surface of the energy release rate with respect to the electro–magnetic field inside the crack. Closed form expressions for the extended crack tip stress fields and crack open displacements are formulated, so are some other fracture characteristic parameters, such as the extended stress intensity factors and energy release rate (G) for dissimilar PEMO–elastic bimaterial solids. Finally, fundamental results and some conclusions are presented, which could have applications in the failure of piezoelectro/magneto–elastic devices.

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