SINGULAR SOLUTIONS OF ANISOTROPIC PLATE WITH AN ELLIPTICAL HOLE OR A CRACK

In the present paper, closed form singular solutions for an infinite anisotropic plate with an elliptic hole or crack are derived based on the Stroh-type formalism for the general anisotropic plate. With the solutions, the hoop stresses and hoop moments around the elliptic hole as well as the stress intensity factors at the crack tip under concentrated in-plane stresses and bending moments are obtained. The singular solutions can be used for approximate analysis of an anisotropic plate weakened by a hole or a crack under concentrated forces and moments.They can also be used as fundamental solutions of boundary integral equations in BEM analysis for anisotropic plates with holes or cracks under general force and boundary conditions.     

孔边裂纹对SH波的散射及其动应力强度因子

采用Ｇｒｅｅｎ函数法研究任意有限长度的孔边裂纹对ＳＨ波的散射和裂纹尖端场动应力强度因子的求解．取含有半圆形缺口的弹性半空间水平表面上任意一点承受时间谐和的出平面线源荷载作用时位移函数的基本解作为Ｇｒｅｅｎ函数,采用裂纹“切割”方法并根据连接条件建立起问题的定解积分方程,得到动应力强度因子的封闭解答．最后给出了孔边裂纹动应力强度因子的算例和结果,并讨论了圆孔的存在对动应力强度因子的影响     

Stress state around cracks on the boundary of a hole in a photoelastic orthotropic plate under creep

The stress–strain state near cracks on the boundary of a circular hole in a linear elastic orthotropic composite plate under tension is analyzed. The distribution of stress intensity factors (SIFs) at the crack tip is found from photoelectric measurements. The dependence of the SIFs on the ratio of crack length to hole radius and on the mechanical properties of the material is established     

Effect of crack-tip shape on the near-tip field in glassy polymer

The physical nature of a crack tip is not absolutely sharp but blunt with finite curvature. In this paper, the effects of crack-tip shape on the stress and deformation fields ahead of blunted cracks in glassy polymers are numerically investigated under Mode I loading and small scale yielding conditions. An elastic–viscoplastic constitutive model accounting for the strain softening upon yield and then the subsequently strain hardening is adopted and two typical glassy polymers, one with strain hardening and the other with strain softening–rehardening are considered in analysis. It is shown that the profile of crack tip has obvious effect on the near-tip plastic field. The size of near-tip plastic zone reduces with the increase of curvature radius of crack tip, while the plastic strain rate and the stresses near crack tip enhance obviously for two typical polymers. Also, the plastic energy dissipation behavior near cracks with different curvatures is discussed for both materials.     

Scattering of SH-wave by cracks originating at an elliptic hole and dynamic stress intensity factor

The method of complex function and the method of Green‘s function are used to investigate the problem of SH-wave scattering by radial cracks of any limited length along the radius originating at the boundary of an elliptical hole, and the solution of dynamicstress intensity factor at the crack tip was given. A Green‘s function was constructed for the problem, which is a basic solution of displacement field for an elastic half space containing a half elliptical gap impacted by anti-plane harmonic linear source force at any point of its horizontal boundary. With division of a crack technique, a series of integral equations can be established on the conditions of continuity and the solution of dynamic stress intensity factor can be obtained. The influence of an elliptical hole on the dynamic stress intensity factor at the crack tip was discussed.     

An effective boundary element method for analysis of crack problems in a plane elastic plate

A simple and effective boundary element method for stress intensity factor calculation for crack problems in a plane elastic plate is presented. The boundary element method consists of the constant displacement discontinuity element presented by Crouch and Starfield and the crack-tip displacement discontinuity elements proposed by YAN Xiangqiao. In the boundary element implementation the left or the right crack-tip displacement discontinuity element was placed locally at the corresponding left or right each crack tip on top of the constant displacement discontinuity elements that cover the entire crack surface and the other boundaries. Test examples (i. e. , a center crack in an infinite plate under tension, a circular hole and a crack in an infinite plate under tension) are included to illustrate that the numerical approach is very simple and accurate for stress intensity factor calculation of plane elasticity crack problems. In addition, specifically, the stress intensity factors of branching cracks emanating from a square hole in a rectangular plate under biaxial loads were analysed. These numerical results indicate the present numerical approach is very effective for calculating stress intensity factors of complex cracks in a 2-D finite body, and are used to reveal the effect of the biaxial loads and the cracked body geometry on stress intensity factors.     

裂尖曲率对裂纹前缘塑性区的影响

考虑尖端为圆弧形的钝头裂纹模型，在外围取线弹性无裂纹体的解，应用线场分析方法。形成一套估计钝头裂纹前缘塑性区尺寸的方法。对含径向裂纹和圆弧形裂尖的圆盘受均匀张力作用情况，给出了塑性区的裂纹前缘尺寸与裂纹尖端曲率的关系。得到的结论是，塑性区的裂纹前缘尺寸与裂纹尖端曲率有关；对于给定的塑性区的裂纹前缘尺寸，载荷反比于外缘尺寸的平方。前一结论说明了塑性区的裂前尺寸作为裂纹失稳扩展判断的局限性；后一结论说明了裂纹体强度失效的尺寸效应规律：抗断强度与总体线尺寸的平方成反比。     

Strain-induced passivity breakdown in corrosion crack initiation

Corrosion crack nucleation and growth are modelled as a moving boundary problem. The model incorporates three physical processes––dissolution, passivation and straining––into a continuum mechanical framework. The dissolution triggers surface advance; the passivation restrains the access of the environment to bare metal; the deformation causes for passivity breakdown. Plane cracks nucleating from surface pits in an elastic–plastic material body under fatigue load are considered. The problem is solved using a FEM program and a moving boundary tracking procedure. The model simulates how cracks form and grow in a single continuous course. The geometry of the developed cracks is found independent of the initial pit size. Plasticity is found to influence the curvature at the tip of the nucleated corrosion cracks. The most important evolution length parameter, the width of the corrosion crack, is found to depend on the size constraints of the tracking procedure. It is concluded that the model is deficient for determining all length scales observed in reality. Physical processes to be considered in an advanced model are proposed and discussed.     

Interaction of crack-tip and notch-tip stress singularities for circular cylinder in torsion

Singular integral equations are used to formulate the torsion problem of a circular cylinder containing a polygonal opening and a line crack. The formulation is based on degenerating a system of connecting line cracks to that of a polygon, the sides of which coincides with the cracks. Considered, in particular, is the torsion of a circular cylinder with a rectangular hole and a nearby slanted line crack. Mode III stress intensity factors are computed at both ends of the crack to reflect their relative position to the rectangular hole in addition to change in the dimensions of the crack relative to the other geometric variables. Recognizing that the singular behavior of the stresses near a reentrant's corner differs from that of the crack tip, intensification of the local stresses at the corners of the rectangular hole is also examined. The results show the influence of the crack size and position.     

Stresses around elliptic holes in circular cylindrical shells

The stress state around an elliptic hole in a circular cylindrical shell under axial loads is measured. The test cylinders which are made of aluminum are loaded both in tension and compression. Stress-concentration factors around the hole for different eccentricities of the ellipse and different curvature parameters are evaluated. Stress-concentration factors away from the edge of the hole are also determined. The results obtained are compared with theoretical results available in the literature. The effect of bending on the stress concentration as related to the eccentricity of the elliptic hole and to the curvature parameters of the shell is discussed. The results from tension test and those from compression test are also compared, and the sensitivity of the shell to any imperfection and possible local buckling at the hole in the case of compression test are demonstrated.     

内部压力作用下矩形板中源于椭圆孔的分支裂纹应力强度因子的一种数值分析

应用一种边界元方法来研究内部压力作用下矩形板中源于椭圆孔的分支裂纹。该边界元方法由Crouch与Starfied建立的常位移不连续单元和笔者最近提出的裂尖位移不连续单元构成。在该边界元方法的实施过程中,左、右裂尖位移不连续单元分别置于裂纹的左、右裂尖处,而常位移不连续单元则分布于除了裂尖位移不连续单元占据的位置之外的整个裂纹面及其它边界。本数值结果进一步证实这种数值方法对计算有限大板中复杂裂纹的应力强度因子的有效性,同时该数值结果可以揭示裂纹体几何对应力强度因子的影响。     

3D dynamic stress intensity factors around two parallel square cracks in an infinite elastic medium under impact load

Summary  Transient stresses around two parallel cracks in an infinite elastic medium are investigated in the present paper. The shape of the cracks is assumed to be square. Incoming shock stress waves impinge upon the two cracks normal to tzheir surfaces. The mixed boundary value equations with respect to stresses and displacements are reduced to two sets of dual integral equations in the Laplace transform domain using the Fourier transform technique. These equations are solved by expanding the differences in the crack surface displacements in a double series of a function that is equal to zero outside the cracks. Unknown coefficients in the series are calculated using the Schmidt method. Stress intensity factors defined in the Laplace transform domain are inverted numerically to the physical space. Numerical calculations are carried out for transient dynamic stress intensity factors under the assumption that the shape of the upper crack is identical to that of the lower crack. Received 2 February 2000; accepted for publication 10 May 2000     

The generalised weight function method for crack problems with mixed boundary conditions

The generalised weight function method for determination of stress intensity factors for crack problems with mixed boundary conditions is presented. The method is based on the application of Betti's reciprocal theorem to equivalent crack problems with special boundary conditions, which are converted from the original problems by the principle of superposition. Expressions of stress intensity factors for center cracks subjected to arbitrary stresses in finite plates with various boundary conditions are derived. Examples of practical interest are given. The results reveal the important roles of the boundary displacement constraint and finite dimensions in the crack parameter evaluation.     

Continuum interpolation of stress fields in brittle fracture

The locally nonlinear behavior of crack stresses is first represented by adjustable boundary conditions near the crack tip. The actual boundary conditions are then determined by continuity conditions imposed on a general parameterized solution. The thus modified formulation yields finite crack tip stresses consistent with atomistic and other hybrid models of brittle fracture.     

紧凑拉伸试件应力强度因子的解析-变分解法以及有关系统计算结果

本文推导了在材料断裂性能测试中常见的受钉传载荷含边缘裂纹试件应力与位移的函数项级数表达式。该级数逐项满足弹性力学所有基本方程、裂纹表面边界条件与绕钉孔的合力平衡条件以及位移单值条件。通过以最小势能原理为基础的变分方程满足其余的静力边界条件,从而求解级数中的待定系数并确定应力强度因子。计算结果表明,级数收敛迅速、正确,计算节省机时,简化数据准备工作。本文还通过计算指出了目前通用的有关矩形紧凑拉伸试件应力强度因子计算公式与曲线的不准确性并且给出了正确、系统的计算曲线,同时还提供了圆形紧凑拉伸试件系统的计算结果。     

The effect of couple stresses on the tip of a crack

The effect of couple stresses at a crack tip is investigated by considering two particular problems. A formally exact solution is obtained (for couple-stress and micropolar elasticity) for the case of a semi-infinite crack with a prescribed internal stress. Secondly, the problem of a finite crack in an infinite medium (with couple stresses) under uniform tension at infinity, is solved by matched expansions when the couple stress parameter is small compared with the crack length. In each case it is shown that the energy release rate from a crack tip tends to the classical elastic value as the couple stress (or micropolar) parameter tends to zero.     

Problems of electromagnetoelasticity for a half-plane and a strip with holes and cracks

The methods of complex potentials, conformal mappings, Cauchy integrals, and least-squares are used to develop a method for determining the electromagentoelastic state (EMES) of a multiply connected half-plane, with the boundary conditions on the straight-line boundary satisfied exactly. The method underlies an approximate method for determining the EMES of a strip with arbitrarily arranged holes and cracks. The dependence of the EMES on the geometrical parameters of a strip with a circular hole or a crack is analyzed     

On the higher order asymptotic analysis of a non-uniformly propagating dynamic crack along an arbitrary path

Transient mixed-mode elastodynamic crack growth along arbitrary smoothly varying paths is considered. Asymptotically, the crack tip stress field is square root singular with the angular variation of the singular term depending weakly on the instantaneous values of the crack tip speed and on the mode-I and mode-II stress intensity factors. However, for a material particle at a small distance away from the moving crack tip, the local stress field will depend not only on the instantaneous values of the crack tip speed and stress intensity factors, but also on the past history of these time dependent quantities. In addition, for cracks propagating along curved paths the stress field is also expected to depend on the nature of the curved crack path. Here, a representation of the crack tip fields in the form of an expansion about the crack tip is obtained in powers of radial distance from the tip. The higher order coefficients of this expansion are found to depend on the time derivative of crack tip speed, the time derivatives of the two stress intensity factors as well as on the instantaneous value of the local curvature of the crack path. It is also demonstrated that even if cracks follow a curved path dictated by the criterion K ₁₁ ^d =0, the stress field may still retain higher order asymmetric components related to non-zero local curvature of the crack path.     

Contour integrals for mixed-mode crack analysis: effect of nonsingular terms

An integral formulation for computing the nonsingular stresses (NSS) in a cracked body under mixed-mode static and dynamic loads is presented. The reciprocity theorems are applied to find the integral formula. The auxiliary fields are selected to eliminate the singular terms in the asymptotic expansion of the stresses near the crack tip. For elastodynamic crack problems, the integral representation of the NSS is presented in both the time and Laplace transform domain. Required variables along the integration path and region enclosed by the integration contour are obtained from the boundary element analysis. Influence of the NSS on predicting the crack growth direction is investigated for cracks under mixed-mode load conditions.     

Surface effects on a mode-Ⅲ reinforced nano-elliptical hole embedded in one-dimensional hexagonal piezoelectric quasicrystals

To effectively reduce the field concentration around a hole or crack, an anti-plane shear problem of a nano-elliptical hole or a nano-crack pasting a reinforcement layer in a one-dimensional(1 D) hexagonal piezoelectric quasicrystal(PQC) is investigated subject to remotely mechanical and electrical loadings. The surface effect and dielectric characteristics inside the hole are considered for actuality. By utilizing the technique of conformal mapping and the complex variable method, the phonon stresses, phason stresses, and electric displacements in the matrix and reinforcement layer are exactly derived under both electrically permeable and impermeable boundary conditions. Three size-dependent field intensity factors near the nano-crack tip are further obtained when the nano-elliptical hole is reduced to the nano-crack. Numerical examples are illustrated to show the effects of material properties of the surface layer and reinforced layer, the aspect ratio of the hole, and the thickness of the reinforcing layer on the field concentration of the nano-elliptical hole and the field intensity factors near the nano-crack tip. The results indicate that the properties of the surface layer and reinforcement layer and the electrical boundary conditions have great effects on the field concentration of the nano-hole and nano-crack, which are useful for optimizing and designing the microdevices by PQC nanocomposites in engineering practice.