Transient Stress Intensity Factors of an Interfacial Crack Between Two Dissimilar Anisotropic Half-Spaces, Part 1: Orthotropic Materials

1984 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.-Y. Kuo

Transient response of an interfacial crack between two dissimilar elastic, orthotropic solids is investigated. The interfacial crack is excited by tractions suddenly applied on the crack surfaces. Governing equations, boundary conditions, and continuity conditions along the interface are reduced to a singular integral equation. Solution of the singular integral equation is obtained by the use of Jacobi polynomials. Expressions for stress intensity factors at the crack tip are given. As a sample problem, an interfacial crack in a 0 deg/90 deg fiber-reinforced composite solid excited by a suddenly applied uniform pressure on the crack surfaces is studied.

2011 ◽  
Vol 201-203 ◽  
pp. 951-955
Author(s):  
Xin Yan Tang

Using the elasticity and the singular integral equation method, an analysis of a bending cylinder containing inclusions is carried out. The disturbing interface stresses on the inclusion sides and the stress intensity factors at the inclusion tips are obtained. The results given in this paper are useful for the strength design of the engineering structures or mechanical components containing inclusions.


1984 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 780-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.-Y. Kuo

Dynamic stress intensity factors for an interfacial crack between two dissimilar elastic, fully anisotropic media are studied. The mathematical problem is reduced to three coupled singular integral equations. Using Jacobi polynomials, solutions to the singular integral equations are obtained numerically. The orders of stress singularity and stress intensity factors of an interfacial crack in a (θ(1)/θ(2)) composite solid agree well with the finite element solutions.


2005 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 544-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xian-Fang Li ◽  
L. Roy Xu

The transient response of a finite bimaterial plate with a crack perpendicular to and terminating at the interface is analyzed for two types of boundaries (free-free and clamped-clamped). The crack surface is loaded by arbitrary time-dependent antiplane shear impact. The mixed initial-boundary value problem is reduced to a singular integral equation of a generalized Cauchy kernel for the crack tearing displacement density or screw dislocation density. The Gauss-Jacobi quadrature technique is employed to numerically solve the singular integral equation, and then the dynamic stress intensity factors are determined by implementing a numerical inversion of the Laplace transform. As an example, numerical calculations are carried out for a cracked bimaterial plate composed of aluminum (material I) and epoxy or steel (material II). The effects of material properties, geometry, and boundary types on the variations of dynamic stress intensity factors are discussed in detail. Results indicate that an overshoot of the normalized stress intensity factor of the crack tip at the interface decreases for a cracked bimaterial plate, and the occurrence of which is delayed for a cracked aluminum/epoxy plate compared to a pure aluminum plate with the same crack.


1982 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Shindo

Following a linear theory for soft ferromagnetic elastic solids, we consider the problem of determining the stress-intensity factors in an infinite strip of a soft ferromagnetic elastic material containing two coplanar Griffith cracks. We assume that the solid is a homogeneous and isotropic one and it is permeated by a uniform magnetostatic field normal to the cracks surfaces and that the cracks are opened by a constant internal pressure. By the use of Fourier transforms we reduce the problem to that of solving two simultaneous triple integral equations. These equations are reduced to a singular integral equation of the first kind. By expanding the solution into the form of the product of the series of Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind and their weight function, the singular integral equation is further reduced to the infinite system of algebraic equations for the determination of the unknown coefficients. Numerical calculations are carried out and the influence of the magnetic fields on the stress-intensity factors is graphically shown in detail.


2007 ◽  
Vol 348-349 ◽  
pp. 197-200
Author(s):  
Xin Yan Tang

Using single crack solution and regular plane harmonic function, the Saint-Venant bending problem of a cracked cylinder with general cross section is formulated in terms of two sets of boundary-singular integral equations, which can be solved by using the methods for combination of boundary element and singular integral equation methods. The concept of bending center used in strength of materials is extended to this bending problem. Theoretical formulae to calculate the bending center and stress intensity factors in cracked cylinder are derived and expressed by the solutions of the integral equations. Based on these results, some numerical examples are given for different configurations of the cylinder cross section as well as the crack parameters.


For a non-pathological bimaterial in which an interface crack displays no oscillatory behaviour, it is observed that, apart possibly from the stress intensity factors, the structure of the near-tip field in each of the two blocks is independent of the elastic moduli of the other block. Collinear interface cracks are analysed under this non-oscillatory condition, and a simple rule is formulated that allows one to construct the complete solutions from mode III solutions in an isotropic, homogeneous medium. The general interfacial crack-tip field is found to consist of a two-dimensional oscillatory singularity and a one-dimensional square root singularity. A complex and a real stress intensity factors are proposed to scale the two singularities respectively. Owing to anisotropy, a peculiar fact is that the complex stress intensity factor scaling the oscillatory fields, however defined, does not recover the classical stress intensity factors as the bimaterial degenerates to be non-pathological. Collinear crack problems are also formulated in this context, and a strikingly simple mathematical structure is identified. Interactive solutions for singularity-interface and singularity interface-crack are obtained. The general results are specialized to decoupled antiplane and in-plane deformations. For this important case, it is found that if a material pair is non-pathological for one set of relative orientations of the interface and the two solids, it is non-pathological for any set of orientations. For bonded orthotropic materials, an intuitive choice of the principal measures of elastic anisotropy and dissimilarity is rationalized. A complex-variable representation is presented for a class of degenerate orthotropic materials. Throughout the paper, the equivalence of the Lekhnitskii and Stroh formalisms is emphasized. The article concludes with a formal statement of interfacial fracture mechanics for anisotropic solids.


1978 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 797-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. K. Lo

This paper presents a method for solving a class of two-dimensional elastic branched crack problems. In contrast to other approaches in the literature, the integral equation presented here enables different branched crack problems to be solved in a unified manner. Muskhelishvili’s potential formulation is used to derive, by means of a Green’s function technique, a singular integral equation in complex form. The problems of the asymmetrically, symmetrically, and doubly symmetrically branched cracks are considered. The ratio of the length of the branched crack to that of the main one may be varied arbitrarily and the limit in which this ratio goes to zero is obtained analytically. Stress-intensity factors at the branched crack tip are computed numerically and the results, where possible, are compared to those in the literature. Disagreements in the literature are discussed and clarified with the aid of the present results.


2011 ◽  
Vol 467-469 ◽  
pp. 1044-1049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jyun Yong Jhan ◽  
Chao Shi Chen ◽  
Chia Huei Tu ◽  
Chien Chung Ke

This paper presents a single-domain boundary element method (BEM) for linear elastic fracture mechanics analysis in the two-dimensional anisotropic bi-materials. In this formulation, the displacement integral equation is applied on the outer boundary only, and the traction integral equation is applied on one side of the crack surface only. A special interfacial crack-tip element was introduced to capture exactly the oscillatory behavior. The computer program with the FORTRAN code has been developed to effectively calculate the stress intensity factors (SIFs) of an interfacial crack within anisotropic bi-materials. This BEM program has been verified having a good accuracy with the previous researches. Furthermore, by analyzing the different anisotropic degree of interfacial crack in an infinite domain, we found that the stress intensity factors of interfacial crack tips had apparent influence by the geometry forms of cracks and media with different anisotropic degrees.


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