An Edge Crack Problem in a Semi-Infinite Plane Subjected to Concentrated Forces

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Introducing new cracked finite elements and a method for SIF calculation of cracks

Two different types of 8-node cracked quadrilateral finite element are presented for fracture applications. The first element contains a central crack and the other one includes an edge crack. The introduced elements are applicable in 2D problems. The crack is not physically modeled within the element, but instead, its effects on the stiffness matrix are taken into account by utilizing linear fracture mechanics laws. Furthermore, a simple and practical procedure is proposed for calculation of stress intensity factor (SIF) by employing proposed cracked elements. Several numerical examples are presented to evaluate the capabilities of the proposed elements and procedure.     

Experimental and numerical analysis of vibrating cracked plates at resonant frequencies

Owing to the advantages of noncontact and fullfield measurement, an optical system called the amplitude fluctuation electronic speckle pattern interferometry (AFESPI) method with an out-of-plane setup is employed to investigate the vibration of a cantilever square plate with a crack emanating from one edge. Based on the fact that clear fringe patterns will be shown by the AFESPI method only at resonant frequencies, both the resonant frequencies and the vibration mode shapes can be obtained experimentally at the same time. Three different crack locations will be discussed in detail in this study. One is parallel to the clamped edge, and the other two are perpendicular to the clamped edge. The numerical finite element calculations are compared with the experimental results, and good agreement is obtained for resonant frequencies and mode shapes. The influences of crack locations and lengths on the vibration behavior of the clamped cantilever plate are studied in terms of the dimensionless frequency parameter (λ ²) versus crack length ratio (a/L). The authors find that if the crack face displacements are out of phase, a large value of stress intensity factor may be induced, and the cracked plate will be dangerous from the fracture mechanics point of view. However, there are some resonant frequencies for which the crack face displacements are completely in phase, causing a zero stress intensity factor, and the cracked plate will be safe.     

Longitudinal and Bending Stresses in a Beam with Saw Cut Edge Cracks∗

Abstract

The Griffith-Irwin theory of brittle fracture of elastic solids predicts the propagation of cracks on the basis of the energy release rate. This depends upon the stress intensity factors for a given crack configuration. The present paper provides these informations for the problem of an infinite number of periodic, non-coplanar, parallel edge cracks in a strip. Two types of crack configurations, namely, periodic cracks of equal length starting from one edge and a set of two coplanar symmetrical edge cracks of equal length are solved for constant and linearly varying pressure distributions. These problems arise naturally in structural mechanics while investigating stresses in extension and bending of cracked strips. Final results are obtained from the numerical solution of certain Fredholm integral equations of the second kind derived from a dual series of Papkovich-Fadle eigenfunctions     

Edge-cracked bimaterial systems under thermal heating

The problem of thermoelastic edge-cracking in two-layered bimaterial systems subjected to convective heating is considered. The medium is assumed to be insulated on one surface and exposed to sudden convective heating on another surface containing the edge crack. It is known that, when a bimaterial system’s surface is heated, compressive stresses arise near the heating surface, forcing the crack surfaces together over a certain cusp-shaped contact length. It is also known that, for a cooled bimaterial systems surface, tensile stresses take place close to the cooling surface and tend to open the crack. So, the edge cracked heating surface problem is treated as an embedded crack with a smooth closure condition of the crack surfaces, with the crack contact length being an additional unknown variable. Superposition and uncoupled quasi-static thermoelasticity principles are adopted to formulate the problem. By using a Fourier integral transform technique, the mixed boundary value problem is reduced to a Cauchy type singular integral equation with an unknown function as the derivative of the crack surface displacement. The numerical results of the stress intensity factors for an edge crack and a crack terminating at the interface, are calculated and presented as a function of time, crack length, heat transfer coefficient, and thickness ratio for two different bimaterial systems, namely a stainless steel layer welded on ferritic steel and a ceramic layer coating on ferritic steel.     

Experimental and Numerical Study of Shear Fracture in Brittle Materials with Interference of Initial Double Cracks

A simultaneous experimental and numerical study of shear fracture of concrete-like materials is carried out using Brazilian disc specimens with initial double edge cracks and fourpoint bending beam specimens with double edge-notches.The interference effects of two cracks/notches are investigated through varied ligament angles and crack lengths.It is shown that shear fracturing paths change remarkably with the initial ligament angles and crack lengths.The cracked specimens are numerically simulated by an indirect boundary element method.A comparison between the numerical results and the experimental ones shows good agreement.     

Analysis of surface cracks by holography

Presented here is a combination of holographic interferometry with a smoothing numerical method taking into consideration the balance of momentum. The method permits the experimental determination of strains, stresses as well as related quantities in fracture mechanics. An edge cracked beam subjected to three-point bending and a double torsion specimen have been selected as the specimens for illustrating the hybrid method.     

平面幂律塑性Ⅰ型裂纹尖端应力场全解

在航空航天、船舶、石油管道和核电等领域,服役结构或部件在长期极端条件下运行,不可避免地会产生裂纹,因此,为研究含裂纹结构的准静态断裂行为,必须了解裂纹尖端附近区域的应力应变场特点.对于幂律材料裂纹构元,研究平面应变和平面应力条件下Ⅰ型裂纹尖端应力场的解析分布.基于能量密度等效和量纲分析,推导了能量密度中值点代表性体积单元(representative volume element, RVE)的等效应力解析方程,并定义其为应力因子,进而针对有限平面应变和平面应力紧凑拉伸(compact tension, CT)试样和单边裂纹弯曲(single edge bend, SEB)试样,以应力因子作为应力特征量,并构造用于表征裂尖等效应力等值线的蝶翅轮廓式和扇贝轮廓式三角特殊函数,提出描述幂律塑性条件下平面I型裂纹尖端应力场的半解析模型.该半解析模型形式简单,对CT和SEB试样的裂尖应力场的预测结果与有限元分析的结果比较表明,两者之间均密切吻合,模型公式可直接用于预测Ⅰ型裂纹尖端应力分布,方便于断裂安全评价和理论发展.     

Centrally symmetrical filtration of liquid in cracked porous media with a hemispherical supply contour

The motion of a homogeneous liquid in a well with a hemispherical face is studied for the case of transient, spherically radial filtration in cracked porous media comprising mutually superposed hemispherical regions with different crack permeabilities, having a supply contour in the outer hemispherical region. Using a Laplace integral transformation with respect to the time variable, the systems of differential equations describing the filtration of liquid in these media are solved for zero initial and corresponding boundary conditions. Exact solutions are obtained for the reduction in stratal pressure with time and distance, and also for the changes taking place in the output of a well operating under conditions of specified face pressure. On the basis of corresponding numerical calculations, the influence of the parameters of the cracked porous strata and the radius of the surface containing the supply contour on the indices of the production process is established.     

Buckling and postbuckling of size-dependent cracked microbeams based on a modified couple stress theory

The elastic buckling analysis and the static postbuckling response of the Euler–Bernoulli microbeams containing an open edge crack are studied based on a modified couple stress theory. The cracked section is modeled by a massless elastic rotational spring. This model contains a material length scale parameter and can capture the size effect. The von Kármán nonlinearity is applied to display the postbuckling behavior. Analytical solutions of a critical buckling load and the postbuckling response are presented for simply supported cracked microbeams. This parametric study indicates the effects of the crack location, crack severity, and length scale parameter on the buckling and postbuckling behaviors of cracked microbeams.     

Numerical Modelling of Steady-State Flow in 2D Cracked Anisotropic Porous Media by Singular Integral Equations Method

The equations governing plane steady-state flow in heterogeneous porous media containing curved-line intersecting cracks (Pouya and Ghabezloo in Transp Porous Media 84:511?C532, 2010) and the potential solution obtained for these equations are considered here. The theoretical results are first completed for the mass balance at crack intersections points. Then, a numerical procedure based on a singular integral equations method is described concretely to derive this solution for cracked materials. Closed-form expressions of elementary integrals for special choice of collocation points lead to a very quick and easy numerical method. It is shown that this method can be applied efficiently to the study of the steady-state flow in cracked materials with anisotropic matrix permeability and a dense distribution of curved-line intersecting cracks. Some applications of this method to the permeability of cracked materials are given.     

A modified upper bound approach to limit analysis for plane strain deeply cracked specimens

The classical upper bound approach of limit analysis is based on assumption of rigid blocks of deformation that move between lines of tangential displacement discontinuity. This assumption leads to considerable simplification but often at cost of higher estimate of the actual load. Moreover, in many cases, it does not give a correct shape of the plastic field. In order to overcome these limitations a modified upper bound approach is proposed in this article. The proposed approach is basically an energetic approach but unlike the classical upper bound approach it is capable of including presence of statically governed stress field. As an application, of proposed approach, theoretical plane strain solutions are presented for deeply cracked fracture mechanics specimens (single edge cracked specimen in pure bending – SE (PB), single edge cracked specimen in three-point bending – SE (B), and compact tension – C (T) specimens). Plane strain plasticity problem in rigid elastic–plastic mono-material (homogeneous) was solved to evaluate useful parameters like limit load, plastic eta function (η_p) and plastic rotation factor (r_p) and in bi-material (mismatch welds) to evaluate mismatch limit load, for deeply cracked specimens. New kinematically admissible velocity fields are proposed for SE (B) and C (T) specimens. Proposed theoretical solutions were confirmed by classical slip-line field solutions, wherever available, and by detailed elastic–plastic finite element analysis with Von-Mises yield criterion. Good agreement was found between proposed solutions and results obtained from the classical slip-line field theory and finite element analysis.     

FREE VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF SIMPLY SUPPORTED BEAM WITH BREATHING CRACK USING PERTURBATION METHOD

In this paper, a new analytical method for vibration analysis of a cracked simply supported beam is investigated. By considering a nonlinear model for the fatigue crack, the governing equation of motion of the cracked beam is solved using perturbation method. The solution of the governing equation reveals the superhaxmonics of the fundamental frequency due to the nonlinear effects in the dynamic response of the cracked beam. Furthermore, considering such a solution, an explicit expression is also derived for the system damping changes due to the changes in the crack parameters, geometric dimensions and mechanical properties of the cracked beam. The results show that an increase in the crack severity and approaching the crack location to the middle of the beam increase the system damping. In order to validate the results, changes in the fundamental frequency ratios against the fatigue crack severities are compared with those of experimental results available in the literature. Also, a comparison is made between the free response of the cracked beam with a given crack depth and location obtained by the proposed analytical solution and that of the numerical method. The results of the proposed method agree with the experimental and numerical results.     

Fracture and buckling of thin panels with edge crack in tension

This study is concerned with the buckling and/or cracking of thin aluminium panels with an edge crack in tension. Two types of end conditions are considered. In the first case, the ends of the panel are clamped such that they would extend in parallel. In the second case, the ends are permitted to rotate when extended in tension. The cracked edge would open while the smooth edge is compressed that could lead to out-of-plane deflection if the panels are sufficiently thin. An empirical relation is obtained for the critical tensile stress. Relations among the geometrical parameters for which buckling occurs are also derived.     

局部损伤梁动力问题的近似计算方法

应用模态摄动法求解局部损伤梁动力特性。这一方法是在无损伤梁的模态子空间内实施,将含局部损伤梁的微分方程的求解转化为代数方程求解。通过算例,表明这一方法可有效的简化计算,同时计算结果具有较高的精度。     

Mixed mode crack growth in curved beams with radial edge crack

Mixed mode crack growth in curved beams with radial edge crack is predicted by the prominent S-theory. An improved simple engineering method for obtaining approximate stress intensity factors of curved cracked beams is also used. It takes into account the elastic crack tip stress singularity while using the elementary beam theory. The results are in reasonable agreement with the more accurate calculations in literature.     

Numerical analysis of cracked inelastic shells with large displacements or mixed mode loading

The trend in higher utilization of structural materials leads to a need for accurate numerical tools for reliable predictions of structural response. In some instances both material and geometrical nonlinearities are allowed for, typically in assessments of structural collapse or residual strength in damaged conditions. Dynamically loaded structures are prone to fatigue cracking; this has to be accounted for when computing nonlinear structural response. The present study addresses the performance of cracked inelastic shells with out-of-plane displacement not negligible compared to shell thickness. This situation leads to membrane force effects in the shell. Hence, a cracked part of the shell will be subjected to a nonproportional history of bending moment and membrane force, and e.g. fracture mechanics parameters (J-integral ) are affected. A Mindlin shell finite element based nonlinear program is developed and utilized herein. The cracked parts are accounted for by means of inelastic line spring elements. These elements also account for possible mode II deformations.     

Analysis of a cracked concrete containing an inclusion with inhomogeneously imperfect interface

The distributed dislocation technique is applied to determine the behavior of a cracked concrete matrix containing an inclusion. The analysis of cracked concrete in the presence of inclusions such as steel expansions is a practical problem that needs special attention. The solution to the problem of interaction of an edge dislocation with a circular inclusion having circumferentially inhomogeneously imperfect interface is available in the literature. This analytical solution is used in the distributed dislocation technique to obtain the stress intensity factor for the cracked concrete in the presence of inclusion. The interface of the matrix and the inclusion is assumed inhomogeneously imperfect and the stress intensity factor is determined for the cracked concrete for a case of two identical cracks on diametrically opposite sides of the inclusion. Consideration of this general inhomogeneously imperfect interface is the contribution of this paper. The variation of the inhomogeneity parameters is studied and presented. Additionally, the general assumption for the interface is simplified to the special case of perfectly bonded interface. The observations for the perfect interface are coincident with the previously reported results.     

The role of constraint in the fields of a crack normal to the interface between elastically and plastically mismatched solids

Asymptotic solutions are presented for a stationary crack normal to the boundary between two elastically mismatched solids such that the crack tip is located at the interface. The second-order term in the elastic asymptotic expansion was determined as a function of elastic mismatch for a thin cracked film on a substrate and for a thin cracked lamina between two substrates. Elastic-plastic analysis was performed using both modified boundary layer formulations and full field analyses. Analytic and numerical solutions in small strain yielding identify elastic mismatch and the T-stress as the determinants of crack tip constraint. The effect of constraint on the competition between interface failure and penetration is discussed.     

裂纹尖端附近三维效应区的有限元分析

基于Kane-Mindlin关于弹性平板面内问题位移的运动学假设,本文首次推导了一种考虑板厚效应的平板面内问题的有限元格式。将Kane-Mindl.n假设推广到弹塑性问题,推导了相应的有限元方程.对双边及中心裂纹拉伸试件的计算结果表明,裂纹尖端附近的弹性三维效应区尺寸和板厚相当.对线性硬化弹塑性材料,当切线模量E_t和弹性模量E之比E_t/E大于0.2时,三维效应区在两倍板厚以内.