Transient Analysis of a Propagating In-Plane Crack in a Finite Geometry Body Subjected to Static Loadings

1997 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 620-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chwan-Huei Tsai ◽  
Chien-Ching Ma

In this study, a cracked body with finite boundaries subjected to static loading and the crack propagating with a constant speed are analyzed. The interaction of the propagating crack with reflected waves generated from traction-free boundaries is investigated in detail. The methodology for constructing the scattered field by superimposing the fundamental solution in the Laplace transform domain is proposed. The fundamental solutions represent the responses of applying exponentially distributed loadings in the Laplace transform domain on the surface of a half-plane or a crack. The dynamic stress intensity factors of a propagating crack induced from the interaction with the first few reflected waves generated from the traction-free boundary are obtained in an explicit closed form. The analytical solutions of dynamic stress intensity factors are compared with available numerical and experimental results and the agreement is quite good. We find one thing very interesting: the dynamic stress intensity factor for a long time period is a universal function of the instantaneous extending rate of a crack tip times the static stress intensity factor for an equivalent stationary crack for the finite strip problem. It was also found that the reflected waves generated from free boundaries always increase the stress intensity factor, and the influence from reflected waves generated from the boundary, which is perpendicular to the crack, are weaker than those generated from the boundary, which is parallel to the crack.

1997 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 819-827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chwan-Huei Tsai ◽  
Chien-Ching Ma

In this study, the transient response of a propagating in-plane crack interacting with half-plane boundaries is investigated in detail. The reflected waves which are generated from traction-free boundaries will interact with the propagating crack and make the problem extremely difficult to analyze. The complete transient solutions are constructed by superimposing fundamental solutions in the Laplace transform domain. The fundamental solutions represent the responses of applying exponentially distributed loadings in the Laplace transform domain on the surface of a half-plane or the propagating crack faces. We focus our attention on the determination of the dynamic stress intensity factor. The dynamic stress intensity factors of a propagating crack in a configuration with boundaries and subjected to dynamic loadings are obtained in an explicit closed form. The transient solutions obtained in this study are in agreement with the experimental results from the literature. Some interesting phenomena observed in the published experimental works are also identified and discussed. It is concluded that the reflected waves generated from the boundary parallel to the crack have much stronger influence on the propagating crack than those generated from the boundary perpendicular to the crack. When the reflected waves generated from the boundary parallel to the crack return to the moving crack tip, the stress intensity factor will increase rapidly.


1997 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chien-Ching Ma ◽  
Yi-Shyong Ing

In this study, the transient analysis of dynamic antiplane crack propagation with a constant velocity in a layered medium is investigated. The individual layers are isotropic and homogeneous. Infinite numbers of reflected cylindrical waves, which are generated from the interface of the layered medium, will interact with the propagating crack and make the problem extremely difficult to analyze. A useful fundamental solution is proposed in this study, and the solution can be determined by superposition of the fundamental solution in the Laplace transform domain. The proposed fundamental problem is the problem of applying exponentially distributed traction (in the Laplace transform domain) on the propagating crack faces. The Cagniard’s method for Laplace inversion is used to obtain the transient solution in time domain. The exact closed-form transient solutions of dynamic stress intensity factors are expressed in compact formulations. These solutions are valid for an infinite length of time and have accounted for contributions from all the incident and reflected waves interaction with the moving crack tip. Numerical results of dynamic stress intensity factors for the propagation crack in layered medium are evaluated and discussed in detail.


2008 ◽  
Vol 385-387 ◽  
pp. 217-220
Author(s):  
You Tang Li ◽  
Zhi Yuan Rui ◽  
Chang Feng Yan

The stress singularity eigen-equation for V-notch in a bi-material plate is obtained. A new definition of dynamic stress intensity factor of a crack perpendicular to bi-material interface is put forward, and then is extended to any V-notch in bi-material plate. A formula of stress extrapolation method to calculate dynamic stress intensity factors of V-notch in bi-material plate is obtained. As an example, the three points bending sample with two materials is investigated.


1999 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 606-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.-H. Chen ◽  
C.-L. Chang ◽  
C.-H. Tsai

The Laplace finite element alternating method, which combines the Laplace transform technique and the finite element alternating method, is developed to deal with the elastodynamic analysis of a finite plate with multiple cracks. By the Laplace transform technique, the complicated elastodynamic fracture problem is first transformed into an equivalent static fracture problem in the Laplace transform domain and then solved by the finite element alternating method developed. To do this, an analytical solution by Tsai and Ma for an infinite plate with a semi-infinite crack subjected to exponentially distributed loadings on crack surfaces in the Laplace transform domain is adopted. Finally, the real-time response can be computed by a numerical Laplace inversion algorithm. The technique established is applicable to the calculation of dynamic stress intensity factors of a finite plate with arbitrarily distributed edge cracks or symmetrically distributed central cracks. Only a simple finite element mesh with very limited number of regular elements is necessary. Since the solutions are independent of the size of time increment taken, the dynamic stress intensity factors at any specific instant can even be computed by a single time-step instead of step-by-step computations. The interaction among the cracks and finite geometrical boundaries on the dynamic stress intensity factors is also discussed in detail. [S0021-8936(00)02103-6]


2010 ◽  
Vol 452-453 ◽  
pp. 273-276
Author(s):  
Tian Shu Song ◽  
Dong Li ◽  
Ming Yue Lv ◽  
Ming Ju Zhang

The problem of dynamic stress intensity factor is investigated theoretically in present paper for a radial crack on a circular cavity in an infinite piezoelectric medium, which is subjected to time-harmonic incident anti-plane shearing. First, a pair of electromechanically coupled Green’s functions are constructed which indicate the basic solutions for a semi-infinite piezoelectric medium with a semi-circular cavity. Second, based on the crack-division technique and conjunction technique, integral equations for the unknown stresses’ solution on the conjunction surface is established, which are related to the dynamic stress intensity factor at the crack tip. Third, the analytical expression on dynamic stress intensity factor at the crack tip is obtained. At last, some calculating cases are plotted to show how the frequencies of incident wave, the piezoelectric characteristic parameters of the material and the geometry of the crack and the circular cavity influence upon the dynamic stress intensity factors. While some of the calculating results are compared with the same situation about a straight crack and with static solutions.


1997 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 546-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Shyong Ing ◽  
Chien-Ching Ma

In this study, the transient stress fields and the dynamic stress intensity factor of a semi-infinite antiplane crack propagating along the interface between two different media are analyzed in detail. The crack is initially at rest and, at a certain instant, is subjected to an antiplane uniformly distributed loading on the stationary crack faces. After some delay time, the crack begins to move along the interface with a constant velocity, which is less than the smaller of the shear wave speed of these two materials. A new fundamental solution is proposed in this study, and the solution is determined by superposition of the fundamental solution in the Laplace transform domain. The proposed fundamental problem is the problem of applying exponentially distributed traction (in the Laplace transform domain) on the propagating crack faces. The exact full-field solutions and the stress intensity factor are found in the time domain by using the Cagniard-de Hoop method (de Hoop, 1958) of Laplace inversion. The near-tip fields are also obtained from the reduction of the full-field solutions. Numerical results for the dynamically extending crack are evaluated in detail. The region of the stress singular field dominated in the transient process is also discussed.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 669
Author(s):  
Yinhuan Jiang ◽  
Chuanping Zhou ◽  
Ban Wang ◽  
Liqun Wu

A theoretical method is developed to study the magnetoelastic coupled wave and dynamic stress intensity around a cylindrical aperture in exponential graded piezomagnetic materials. By employing the decoupling technique, the coupled magnetoelastic governing equations are decomposed. Then the analytic solutions of elastic wave fields and magnetic fields are presented by using the wave function expansion method. By satisfying the boundary conditions of the aperture, the mode coefficients, and the analytic solutions of dynamic stress intensity factors are determined. The numerical examples of the dynamic stress intensity factor near the aperture are presented. The numerical results indicate that the incident wave number, the piezomagnetic properties, and the nonhomogeneous parameter of materials highly influence the dynamic stress around the aperture.


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