Analysis method of planar interface cracks of arbitrary shape in three-dimensional transversely isotropic magnetoelectroelastic bimaterials

Using the fundamental solutions for three-dimensional transversely isotropic magnetoelectroelastic bimaterials, the extended displacements at any point for an internal crack parallel to the interface in a magnetoelectroelastic bimaterial are expressed in terms of the extended displacement discontinuities across the crack surfaces. The hyper-singular boundary integral–differential equations of the extended displacement discontinuities are obtained for planar interface cracks of arbitrary shape under impermeable and permeable boundary conditions in three-dimensional transversely isotropic magnetoelectroelastic bimaterials. An analysis method is proposed based on the analogy between the obtained boundary integral–differential equations and those for interface cracks in purely elastic media. The singular indexes and the singular behaviors of near crack-tip fields are studied. Three new extended stress intensity factors at crack tip related to the extended stresses are defined for interface cracks in three-dimensional transversely isotropic magnetoelectroelastic bimaterials. A penny-shaped interface crack in magnetoelectroelastic bimaterials is studied by using the proposed method.The results show that the extended stresses near the border of an impermeable interface crack possess the well-known oscillating singularity r^?1/2±iε or the non-oscillating singularity r^?1/2±κ. Three-dimensional transversely isotropic magnetoelectroelastic bimaterials are categorized into two groups, i.e., ε-group with non-zero value of ε and κ-group with non-zero value of κ. The two indexes ε and κ do not coexist for one bimaterial. However, the extended stresses near the border of a permeable interface crack have only oscillating singularity and depend only on the mechanical loadings.     

Transient response of a magnetoelectroelastic solid with two collinear dielectric cracks under impacts

Dynamic analysis of two collinear electro-magnetically dielectric cracks in a piezoelectromagnetic material is made under in-plane magneto-electro-mechanical impacts. Generalized semi-permeable crack-face boundary conditions are proposed to simulate realistic opening cracks with dielectric. Ideal boundary conditions of a combination of electrically permeable or impermeable and magnetically permeable or impermeable assumptions are several limiting cases of the semi-permeable dielectric crack. Utilizing the Laplace and Fourier transforms, the mixed initial-boundary-value problem is reduced to solving singular integral equations with Cauchy kernel. Dynamic intensity factors of stress, electric displacement, magnetic induction and crack opening displacement (COD) near the inner and outer crack tips are determined in the Laplace transform domain. Numerical results for a special magnetoelectroelastic solid are calculated to show the influences of the dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability inside the cracks on the crack-face electric displacement and magnetic induction. By means of a numerical inversion of the Laplace transform, the variations of the normalized intensity factors of stress and COD are discussed against applied magnetoelectric impact loadings and the geometry of the cracks for fully impermeable, vacuum, fully permeable cracks and shown in graphics.     

A periodic array of cracks in a transversely isotropic magnetoelectroelastic material

Magnetoelectroelastic materials are inherently brittle and prone to fracture. Therefore, it is important to evaluate the fracture behavior of these advanced materials. In this paper, a periodic array of cracks in a transversely isotropic magnetoelectroelastic material is investigated. Hankel transform is applied to solve elastic displacements, electric potential and magnetic potential. The problem is reduced into a system of integral equations. Both impermeable and permeable crack-face electromagnetic boundary conditions assumptions are investigated. Quantities of the stress, electric displacement and magnetic induction and their intensity factor are obtained. Effect of the crack spacing on these quantities is investigated in details.     

Transient response of an interfacial crack between dissimilar magnetoelectroelastic layers under magnetoelectromechanical impact loadings: Mode-I problem

The dynamic response of an interfacial crack between two dissimilar magnetoelectroelastic layers is investigated under magnetic, electrical and mechanical impact loadings. Four kinds of ideal crack-face assumptions, i.e., magnetoelectrically impermeable (Case 1), magnetically impermeable and electrically permeable (Case 2), magnetically permeable and electrically impermeable (Case 3) and magnetoelectrically permeable (Case 4), are adopted separately. The dynamic field intensity factors and energy release rates are derived. The effects of loading combinations and crack configurations especially for the former on the dynamic response are examined according to energy release rate criterion. The numerical results show that, among others, a negative magnetic (or electrical) loading is generally prone to inhibit the crack extension rather than a positive one for a magnetically (or electrically) impermeable interfacial crack. Results presented in this paper should have potential applications to the design of multilayered magnetoelectroelastic structures.     

A magnetoelectroelastic medium with an elliptical cavity under combined mechanical–electric–magnetic loading

The solution for an elliptical cavity in an infinite two-dimensional magnetoelectroelastic medium subject to remotely uniformly applied combined mechanical–electric–magnetic loadings is obtained by using the Stroh formalism and the exact boundary conditions along the surface of the cavity. By letting the minor-axis of the cavity to zero the solution for a crack is deduced. A self-consistent method is proposed to calculate the real crack opening under the combined mechanical–electric–magnetic loadings. The method requires that the crack opening is the minor-axis of the elliptical opening profile. Beside the real crack solution, four different extreme models, i.e., the impermeable crack, permeable crack, electrically impermeable and magnetically permeable crack and electrically permeable and magnetically impermeable crack, are discussed. An expression of the strain energy density factor is derived. Numerical results of the strain energy density at the crack tip are given for a BaTiO₃–CoFe₂O₄ composite with the piezoelectric BaTiO₃ material being the inclusion and the magnetostrictive CoFe₂O₄ material being the matrix. The effects of the proportion of the two phases, permeability of the crack to electric and magnetic fields, the electric and magnetic loadings on the strain energy density factor are discussed.     

Strip electric-magnetic breakdown model in a magnetoelectroelastic medium

Extending the polarization saturation model [Gao et al., 1997. Local and global energy release rates for an electrically yielded crack in a piezoelectric ceramic. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 45, 491-510] and the dielectric breakdown (DB) model [Zhang et al., 2005. The strip dielectric breakdown model. Int. J. Fract. 132, 311-327] in piezoelectric materials, the Strip Electric-Magnetic Breakdown (SEMB) model is proposed for electrically and magnetically impermeable crack in a magnetoelectroelastic medium to study the effect of the nonlinear character of electric field and magnetic field on fracture of magnetoelectroelastic materials. In the SEMB model, the electric field in the strip of the electric breakdown zone ahead of the crack tip is equal to the electric breakdown strength, while the magnetic filed in the strip of the magnetic breakdown zone is equal to the magnetic breakdown strength. By using the extended Stroh formalism and the extended dislocation modeling of a crack, the Griffith crack problem under the electrically and magnetically elastic-plastic condition in a magnetoelectroelastic medium is reduced to a set of dual integral equations. The sizes of the electric breakdown zone and the magnetic breakdown zone, the extended intensity factors and the local J-integral are obtained. The effect of the combined mechanical-electric-magnetic loadings on the local J-integral is studied.     

Dynamic fracture analysis of a penny-shaped crack in a magnetoelectroelastic layer

This paper analyzes the dynamic magnetoelectroelastic behavior induced by a penny-shaped crack in a magnetoelectroelastic layer subjected to prescribed stress or prescribed displacement at the layer surfaces. Two kinds of crack surface conditions, i.e., magnetoelectrically impermeable and permeable cracks, are adopted. The Laplace and Hankel transform techniques are employed to reduce the problem to Fredholm integral equations. Field intensity factors are obtained and discussed. Numerical results of the crack opening displacement (COD) intensity factors are presented and the effects of magnetoelectromechanical loadings, crack surface conditions and crack configuration on crack propagation and growth are examined. The results indicate that among others, the fracture behaviors of magnetoelectroelastic materials are affected by the sizes and directions of the prescribed magnetic and/or electric fields, and the effects are strongly dependent on the elastic boundary conditions.     

Applicability of the crack-face electromagnetic boundary conditions for fracture of magnetoelectroelastic materials

This paper discusses the different electromagnetic boundary conditions on the crack-faces in magnetoelectroelastic materials, which possess coupled piezoelectric, piezomagnetic and magnetoelectric effects. A notch of finite thickness in these materials containing air (or vacuum) is also addressed. Four ideal crack-face electromagnetic boundary condition assumptions, that is, (a) electrically and magnetically impermeable crack, (b) electrically impermeable and magnetically permeable crack, (c) electrically permeable and magnetically impermeable crack and (d) electrically and magnetically permeable crack, are investigated separately. The influence of notch thickness on the field intensity factors at notch tips and the electromagnetic field inside the notch are obtained in closed-form. The results are compared with the ideal crack solutions. Applicability of crack-face electromagnetic boundary condition assumptions is discussed.     

Semi-permeable crack analysis in a 2D magnetoelectroelastic medium based on the EMPS model

For a crack in a magnetoelectroelastic plane under the electrically and magnetically semi-permeable boundary condition, we derive the non-linear analytical solution of the strip electric–magnetic polarization saturation (EMPS) model. Using the extended dislocation theory and integral equation method, we obtain the electric and magnetic yielding zones, as well as the field intensity factor and local J-integral. Adapting an iterative method, numerical examples were performed to analyze the effect of different boundary conditions and the electric–magnetic saturated properties on the electric displacement and magnetic induction in the crack cavity, electric and magnetic yielding zones, stress intensity factor and local J-integral.     

Nonlinear fracture of 2D magnetoelectroelastic media: Analytical and numerical solutions

A strip electric–magnetic polarization saturation (SEMPS) model is developed to study the electric and magnetic yielding effects on a crack in magnetoelectroelastic (MEE) media. In this model, the MEE medium is treated as being mechanically brittle, and electrically and magnetically ductile. Analogously to the classic Dugdale model, the electric and magnetic yielding zones in front of the crack are represented for simplicity by two strips. In the electric yielding strip the electric displacement equals the electric displacement saturation and meanwhile in the magnetic yielding zone the magnetic induction equals the magnetic induction saturation. The nonlinear analytical solution of this SEMPS model of crack in an infinite MEE medium is obtained using an integral equation approach. The equivalence between the proposed SEMPS model and the existing strip electric–magnetic breakdown (SEMB) model is demonstrated.To analyze the nonlinear fracture problem in the corresponding finite MEE media, the non-linear hybrid extended displacement discontinuity-fundamental solution (NLHEDD-FS) method is modified, and a multiple iteration approach is adapted to determine the electric and magnetic yielding zones. Comparing with the analytical solution, the applicability and effectiveness of the NLHEDD-FS method is verified. Numerical results based on the SEMPS model for a center crack in infinite and finite MEE strip are presented.     

Finite-part integral and boundary element method to solve three-dimensional crack problems in piezoelectric materials

Using the hypersingular integral equation method based on body force method, a planar crack in a three-dimensional transversely isotropic piezoelectric solid under mechanical and electrical loads is analyzed. This crack problem is reduced to solve a set of hypersingular integral equations. Compare with the crack problems in elastic isotropic materials, it is shown that for the impermeable crack, the intensity factors for piezoelectric materials can be obtained from those for elastic isotropic materials. Based on the exact analytical solution of the singular stresses and electrical displacements near the crack front, the numerical method of the hypersingular integral equation is proposed by the finite-part integral method and boundary element method, which the square root models of the displacement and electric potential discontinuities in elements near the crack front are applied. Finally, the numerical solutions of the stress and electric field intensity factors of some examples are given.     

Theoretical model of crack branching in magnetoelectric thermoelastic materials

Thermomagnetoelectroelastic crack branching of magnetoelectro thermoelastic materials is theoretically investigated based on Stroh formalism and continuous distribution of dislocation approach. The crack face boundary condition is assumed to be fully thermally, electrically and magnetically impermeable. Explicit Green’s functions for the interaction of a crack and a thermomagnetoelectroelastic dislocation (i.e., a thermal dislocation, a mechanical dislocation, an electric dipole and a magnetic dipole located at a same point) are presented. The problem is reduced to two sets of coupled singular integral equations with the thermal dislocation and magnetoelectroelastic dislocation densities along the branched crack line as the unknown variables. As a result, the formulations for the stress, electric displacement and magnetic induction intensity factors and energy release rate at the branched crack tip are expressed in terms of the dislocation density functions and the branch angle. Numerical results are presented to study the effect of applied thermal flux, electric field and magnetic field on the crack propagation path by using the maximum energy release rate criterion.     

Dynamic analysis of a penny-shaped dielectric crack in a magnetoelectroelastic solid under impacts

The transient response of a magneto-electro-elastic material with a penny-shaped dielectric crack subjected to in-plane magneto-electro-mechanical impacts is made. To simulate an opening crack with a dielectric interior, the crack-face electromagnetic boundary conditions are supposed to depend on the crack opening displacement and the jumps of electric and magnetic potentials across the crack. Four ideal crack-face electromagnetic boundary conditions involving a combination of electrically permeable or impermeable and magnetically permeable or impermeable assumptions can be reduced. The Laplace and Hankel transform techniques are further utilized to solve the mixed initial-boundary-value problem. Three coupling Fredholm integral equations are obtained and solved by the composite Simpson's rule. Dynamic field intensity factors of stress, electric displacement, magnetic induction, crack opening displacement (COD), electric potential and magnetic potential are given in the Laplace transform domain. By means of a numerical inversion of the Laplace transform, numerical results are calculated to show the variations of the physical parameters of concern versus the normalized time in graphics. The effects of applied electric and magnetic loads on the dynamic intensity factors of stress and COD, and the dynamic energy release rate for a BaTiO₃-CoFe₂O₄ composite with a penny-shaped vacuum crack are discussed in detail.     

Analysis of multiple axisymmetric annular cracks in a piezoelectric medium

An axisymmetric annular electric dislocation is defined. The solution of axisymmetric electric and Volterra climb and glide dislocations in an infinite transversely isotropic piezoelectric domain is obtained by means of Hankel transforms. The distributed dislocation technique is used to construct integral equations for a system of co-axial annular cracks with so-called permeable and impermeable electric boundary conditions on the crack faces where the domain is under axisymmetric electromechanical loading. These equations are solved numerically to obtain dislocation densities on the crack surfaces. The dislocation densities are employed to determine field intensity factors for a system of interacting annular and/or penny-shaped cracks.     

横观各向同性压电材料中裂纹问题的边界元法

采用Somigiliana公式给出了三维横观各向同性压电材料中的非渗漏裂纹问题的一般解和超奇异积分方程,其中未知函数为裂纹面上的位移间断和电势间断．在此基础上,使用有限部积分和边界元结合的方法,建立了超奇异积分方程的数值求解方法,并给出了一些典型数值算例的应力强度因子和电位移强度因子的数值结果,结果令人满意．     

Anti-plane analysis of multiple cracks originating from a circular hole in a magnetoelectroelastic solid

The anti-plane problem of multiple cracks originating from a circular hole in a magnetoelectroelastic solid is investigated under remotely uniform anti-plane mechanical loading and in-plane electromagnetic loadings. The boundary value problem is reduced to a Cauchy integral equation by a new mapping function and the complex variable method, which is further solved exactly. The analytic expressions of the complex potentials, the field intensity factors and the energy release rate are derived in closed-form under the assumption that the surfaces of the cracks and hole are both electrically and magnetically impermeable. The effects of crack configurations and combined loadings on the energy release rate are shown graphically. Several useful results which may have potential applications to the design and fracture analysis of magnetoelectroelastic structures are given.     

INTERFACIAL CRACK ANALYSIS IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC BI-MATERIALS BY BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATION METHOD

The integral-differential equations for three-dimensional planar interfacial cracks of arbitrary shape in transversely isotropic bimaterials were derived by virtue of the Somigliana identity and the fundamental solutions, in which the displacement discontinuities across the crack faces are the unknowns to be determined. The interface is parallel to both the planes of isotropy. The singular behaviors of displacement and stress near the crack border were analyzed and the stress singularity indexes were obtained by integral equation method. The stress intensity factors were expressed in terms of the displacement discontinuities. In the non-oscillatory case, the hyper-singular boundary integral-differential equations were reduced to hyper-singular boundary integral equations similar to those of homogeneously isotropic materials.     

Exact solution for elliptical inclusion in magnetoelectroelastic materials

This paper considers the magneto-electro-mechanical coupling between an inclusion and matrix, which are both of magnetoelectroelastic materials. The general cases including the mode I, mode II and mode III are studied. Analytical solutions for an elliptical cylinder inclusion inside an infinite magnetoelectroelastic medium under combined mechanical–electrical–magnetic loadings are formulated via the Stroh formalism. Crack problem is also investigated and the stress, electric and magnetic fields in the vicinity of the crack tip are determined by a complex vector of intensity factors. Various special cases, including an impermeable inclusion, a permeable crack, a rigid and permeable inclusion, a rigid and permeable line inclusion, a permeable cavity, and an impermeable cavity are discussed.     

An interface crack with partially electrically conductive crack faces under antiplane mechanical and in-plane electric loadings

An interface crack in a bimaterial piezoelectric space under the action of antiplane mechanical and in-plane electric loadings is analyzed. One zone of the crack faces is electrically conductive while the other part is electrically permeable. All electro-mechanical values are presented using sectionally-analytic vector-functions and a combined Dirichlet-Riemann boundary value problem is formulated. An exact analytical solution of this problem is obtained. Simple analytical expressions for the shear stress, electric field and also for mechanical displacement jump of the crack faces are derived. These values are also presented graphically along the corresponding parts of the material interface. Singular points of the shear stress, electric field and electric displacement jump are found. Their intensity factors are determined as well. Intensity factors variations with respect to the external electric field and different ratios between the electrically conductive and electrically permeable crack face zones are also demonstrated.     

General solution for the coupled equations of transversely isotropic magnetoelectroelastic solids

IntroductionMechanicsandphysicsofmediapossessingsimultaneouslypiezoelectric ,piezomagneticandmagnetoelectriceffects ,namely ,magnetoelectroelasticsolids,haveattractedmoreandmoreattentionduetotheirgreatpotentialapplicationsinthetechnologiesofsmartandadaptivematerialsystem[1] .Sometheoreticalinvestigationsappearedintheliteratureinclude :1)Theexistenceproblemofsurfacewavesinsemi_infiniteanisotropicmagnetoelectroelasticmediawithvariousboundaryconditions[2 ,3 ] ;2 )Green’sfunctions[4～ 7] ;3)Inho…