A WEDGE DISCLINATION DIPOLE INTERACTING WITH A COATED CYLINDRICAL INHOMOGENEITY

A three-phase composite cylinder model is utilized to study the interaction of a wedge disclination dipole with a coated cylindrical inhomogeneity. The explicit expression of the force acting on the wedge disclination dipole is calculated. The motilities and the equilibrium positions of the disclination dipole near the coated inhomogeneity are discussed for various material combinations, relative thicknesses of the coating layer and the features of the disclination dipole.The results show that the material properties of the coating layer have a major part to play in alteringi the strengthening effect or toughening effect produced by the coated inhomogeneity.     

Stress analysis of a wedge disclination dipole interacting with a circular nanoinhomogeneity

This paper investigates the interaction between a wedge disclination dipole and a circular nanoinhomogeneity embedded in an infinite matrix. The Gurtin–Murdoch surface/interface elasticity model is applied to account for the interface stress effect of the nanoinhomogeneity. A closed form solution for the stress fields inside the inhomogeneity and matrix is derived with the complex variable method of Muskhelishvili. The influences of the interfacial and bulk material properties as well as the geometric parameters on the material force of the wedge disclination dipole are systematically discussed. It is found that the interface stress effect may influence the material force of the wedge disclination dipole significantly.     

ELASTIC INTERACTION BETWEEN WEDGE DISCLINATION DIPOLE AND INTERNAL CRACK

The system of a wedge disclination dipole interacting with an internal crack was investigated. By using the complex variable method, the closed form solutions of complex potentials to this problem were presented. The analytic formulae of the physics variables, such as stress intensity factors at the tips of the crack produced by the wedge disclination dipole and the image force acting on disclination dipole center were obtained. The influence of the orientation, the dipole arm and the location of the disclination dipole on the stress intensity factors was discussed in detail. Furthermore, the equilibrium position of the wedge disclination dipole was also examined. It is shown that the shielding or antishielding effect of the wedge disclination to the stress intensity factors is significant when the disclination dipole moves to the crack tips.     

向错偶极子对楔型裂纹尖端场

研究了材料中楔型向错偶极子与楔型裂纹的弹性干涉问题. 运用复变函数方法获得了复势函 数和应力场的封闭形式解答,导出了楔型裂纹尖端应力强度因子的解析表达式. 讨论了向错 偶极子的位置、方向和偶臂长度对楔型裂纹尖端应力强度因子的屏蔽和反屏蔽作用规律. 研 究结果表明,向错偶极子靠近裂纹尖端时,对应力强度因子的屏蔽或反屏蔽作用非常强烈. 在一定条件下,楔型向错偶极子能够延缓楔型裂纹的扩展;偶极子的方向也存在一个临界值 使其对应力强度因子的屏蔽或反屏蔽效应最大. 此外,楔型裂纹张开角以及偶极子臂长对应 力强度因子也有较大的影响.     

Analysis of dislocation wall formation in a disclinated nanograin

Disclinations are common defects in nanocrystalline materials processed via the severe plastic deformation technique. A disclination, depending on its strength, may remain stable or partially relax into other structures such as cracks and dislocation walls. This paper develops closed-form analytical expressions for the energy of a nanograin containing a negative wedge disclination and a wall of periodic edge dislocations. Using these expressions, it is found that (1) a critical disclination strength is required for emitting dislocations and that this critical value demonstrates a strong power law dependence on the nanograin size, (2) there exists a favorable dislocation spacing, which decreases with increase in the disclination strength, in the dislocation wall formed by the emitted dislocations, and (3) the misorientation of the dislocation wall lies between 5° and 12° for disclination strength in the range of 15–35°.     

增强相/夹杂内螺位错偶极子与含共焦钝裂纹椭圆夹杂的干涉效应

运用弹性力学的复势方法,研究了纵向剪切下增强相/夹杂内螺型位错偶极子与含共焦钝裂纹椭圆夹杂的干涉效应,得到了该问题复势函数的封闭形式解答,由此推导出了夹杂区域的应力场、作用在螺型位错偶极子中心的像力和像力偶矩以及裂纹尖端应力强度因子级数形式解。并分析了位错偶极子倾角 、钝裂纹尺寸和材料常数对位错像力、像力偶矩以及应力强度因子的影响。数值计算结果表明：位错像力、像力偶矩以及应力强度因子均随位错偶极子倾角做周期变化;夹杂内部的椭圆钝裂纹明显增强了硬基体对位错的排斥,减弱了软基体对位错的吸引,且对于硬夹杂,位错出现了一个不稳定平衡位置,该平衡位置随钝裂纹曲率的增大不断向界面靠近;变化 值将出现改变位错偶极子对应力强度因子作用方向的临界值。     

穿透夹杂界面的半无限楔形裂纹尖端螺型位错的发射研究

摘要：研究了穿透圆形夹杂界面的半无限楔形裂纹与裂纹尖端螺型位错的干涉问题。应用复变函数解析延拓技术与奇性主部分析方法,得到了位错位于半圆形夹杂内部时,半无限基体和半圆形夹杂内复势函数的解析解。然后利用保角映射技术得到了穿透圆形夹杂界面的半无限楔形裂纹尖端螺型位错产生的应力场以及作用在位错上的位错力的解析表达式。主要讨论了螺型位错对裂纹的屏蔽效应以及从楔形裂纹尖端发射位错的临界载荷条件。研究结果表明正的螺型位错可以削弱楔形裂纹尖端的应力强度因子,屏蔽裂纹的扩展,屏蔽效应随位错方位角的增大而减小。位错发射所需的无穷远临界应力随发射角的增加而增大,最可能的位错发射角度为零度,直线裂纹尖端位错的发射比楔形裂纹尖端位错的发射更容易,硬基体抑制位错的发射。     

An approach based on distributed dislocations and disclinations for crack problems in couple-stress elasticity

The technique of distributed dislocations proved to be in the past an effective approach in studying crack problems within classical elasticity. The present work is intended to extend this technique in studying crack problems within couple-stress elasticity, i.e. within a theory accounting for effects of microstructure. This extension is not an obvious one since rotations and couple-stresses are involved in the theory employed to analyze the crack problems. Here, the technique is introduced to study the case of a mode I crack. Due to the nature of the boundary conditions that arise in couple-stress elasticity, the crack is modeled by a continuous distribution of climb dislocations and constrained wedge disclinations (the concept of ‘constrained wedge disclination’ is first introduced in the present work). These distributions create both standard stresses and couple stresses in the body. In particular, it is shown that the mode-I case is governed by a system of coupled singular integral equations with both Cauchy-type and logarithmic kernels. The numerical solution of this system shows that a cracked solid governed by couple-stress elasticity behaves in a more rigid way (having increased stiffness) as compared to a solid governed by classical elasticity. Also, the stress level at the crack-tip region is appreciably higher than the one predicted by classical elasticity.     

Interaction between heat dipole and circular interfacial crack

The heat dipole consists of a heat source and a heat sink. The problem of an interracial crack of a composite containing a circular inclusion under a heat dipole is investigated by using the analytical extension technique, the generalized Liouville theorem, and the Muskhelishvili boundary value theory. Temperature and stress fields are formulated. The effects of the temperature field and the inhomogeneity on the interracial fracture axe analyzed. As a numerical illustration, the thermal stress intensity factors of the interfacial crack are presented for various material combinations and different positions of the heat dipole. The characteristics of the interfacial crack depend on the elasticity, the thermal property of the composite, and the condition of the dipole.     

Interaction between heat dipole and circular interracial crack

The heat dipole consists of a heat source and a heat sink. The problem of an interfacial crack of a composite containing a circular inclusion under a heat dipole is investigated by using the analytical extension technique, the generalized Liouville theo-rem, and the Muskhelishvili boundary value theory. Temperature and stress fields are formulated. The effects of the temperature field and the inhomogeneity on the interracial fracture are analyzed. As a numerical illustration, the thermal stress intensity factors of the interfacial crack are presented for various material combinations and different po-sitions of the heat dipole. The characteristics of the interfacial crack depend on the elasticity, the thermal property of the composite, and the condition of the dipole.     

A technique for studying interaction between a screw dislocation dipole or a concentrated load and a mode III crack crossing an interface

A method of potentially wide application is developed for deriving analytical expressions of the elastic interaction between a screw dislocation dipole or a concentrated force and a crack cutting perpendicularly across the interface of a bimaterial. The cross line composed of the interface and the crack is mapped into a line, and then the complex potentials are educed. The Muskhelishvili method is extended by creating a Plemelj function that matches the singularity of the real crack tips, and eliminates the pseudo tips’ singularity induced by the conformal mapping. The stress field is obtained after solving the Riemann–Hilbert boundary value problem. Based on the stress field expressions, crack tip stress intensity factors, dislocation dipole image forces and image torque are formulated. Numerical curves show that both the translation and rotation must be considered in the static equilibrium of the dipole system. The crack tip stress intensity factor induced by the dipole may rise or drop and the crack may attract or reject the dipole. These trends depend not only on the crack length, but also on the dipole location, the length and the angle of the dipole span. Generally, the horizontal image force exerted at the center of the dislocation dipole is much smaller than the vertical one. Whether the dipole subjected to clockwise torque or anticlockwise torque is determined by whether the Burgers vector of the crack-nearby dislocation of the dipole is positive or negative. A concentrated load induces no singularity to crack tip stress fields as the load is located at the crack line. However, as the concentrated force is not located on the crack line but approaches the crack tip, the nearby crack tip stress intensity factor K_IIIu increases steeply to infinity.     

On a semi-infinite crack penetrating a piezoelectric circular inhomogeneity with a viscous interface

We investigate a semi-infinite crack penetrating a piezoelectric circular inhomogeneity bonded to an infinite piezoelectric matrix through a linear viscous interface. The tip of the crack is at the center of the circular inhomogeneity. By means of the complex variable and conformal mapping methods, exact closed-form solutions in terms of elementary functions are derived for the following three loading cases: (i) nominal Mode-III stress and electric displacement intensity factors at infinity; (ii) a piezoelectric screw dislocation located in the unbounded matrix; and (iii) a piezoelectric screw dislocation located in the inhomogeneity. The time-dependent electroelastic field in the cracked composite system is obtained. Particularly the time-dependent stress and electric displacement intensity factors at the crack tip, jumps in the displacement and electric potential across the crack surfaces, displacement jump across the viscous interface, and image force acting on the piezoelectric screw dislocation are all derived. It is found that the value of the relaxation (or characteristic) time for this cracked composite system is just twice as that for the same fibrous composite system without crack. Finally, we extend the methods to the more general scenario where a semi-infinite wedge crack is within the inhomogeneity/matrix composite system with a viscous interface.     

Special rotational deformation effect on the emission of dislocations from a crack tip in deformed nanocrystalline solids

The interaction between the special rotational deformation and the crack in deformed nanocrystalline ceramics and metals is investigated by the complex variable method. We have theoretically described the effects of the disclination quadrupole produced by the special rotational deformation on the emission of lattice dislocations from the crack tip. The complex form expressions of the stress field and the force field are divided. The critical stress intensity factors for the first dislocation emission are calculated. The influence of the disclination strength, the grain size (the quadrupole arms), the location of the disclinations and the angle between the crack plane and one of the quadrupole arms, as well as the crack length on the critical stress intensity factors is discussed in detail. And the results show that, the special rotational deformation has great influence on the dislocation emission from the crack tip.     

Symmetrical Representation of Stresses in the Stroh Formalism and its Application to a Dislocation and a Dislocation Dipole in an Anissotropic Elastic Medium

Symmetrical stress representation in the Stroh formalism for anisotropic elastic bodies is introduced and the range of its applicability is analysed. By making use of this stress representation new formulae for influence functions giving stresses in an infinite anisotropic medium subjected to a straight dislocation and a straight dislocation dipole are derived. The advantage of the new formulae is that they explicitly show the symmetrical structure of these influence functions not referred to previously. Relations of these influence functions to influence functions giving stresses and Airy stress function due to a straight wedge disclination, whose explicit expressions are also introduced, are derived. Application of these results in computation of stresses by the hypersingular and regularized Somigliana stress identities is discussed. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

伴随微孔洞生长的裂纹弹塑性定常扩展

裂纹在韧性材料中扩展时,将们随着微孔洞的萌生和生长,孔洞的萌生和深化将直接影响着材料的总体断裂韧性和强度,以往的研究主要集中在将裂纹的扩展刻划为微孔洞的萌生、生长和汇合这样一个过程。从传统的断裂过程区模型出发研究微孔洞的萌生和生长对材料总体断裂韧性的影响,通过采用Ｇｕｒｓｏｎ模型,建立塑性增量本构关系,然后针对定常扩展情况直接进行分析,孔洞对材料断裂韧性的影响由本构关系刻划,而在孔洞汇合模型中,上     

The interaction between crack and electric dipole of piezoelectricity

Discrete dipoles located near the crack tip play an important role in nonlinear electric field induced fracture of piezoelectric ceramics. A physico-mathematical model of dipole is constructed of two generalized concentrated piezoelectric forces with equal density and opposite sign. The interaction between crack and electric dipole in piezoelectricity is analyzed. The closed form solutions, including those for stress and electric displacement, crack opening displacement and electric potential, are obtained. The function of piezoelectric anisotropic direction,p _a (θ)=cosθ+p _a sinθ, can be used to express the influence of a dipole's direction. In the case that a dipole locates near crack tip, the piezoelectric stress intensity factor is a power function with −3/2 index of the distance between dipole and crack tip. Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 10072033)     

Spheroidal inhomogeneity in a transversely isotropic piezoelectric medium

Summary Piezoelectric material containing an inhomogeneity with different electroelastic properties is considered. The coupled electroelastic fields within the inclusion satisfy a system of integral equations solved in a closed form in the case of an ellipsoidal inclusion. The solution is utilized to find the concentration of the electroelastic fields around an inhomogeneity, and to derive the expression for the electric enthalpy of the electroelastic medium with an ellipsoidal inclusion that is relevant for various applications. Explicit closed-form expressions are found for the electroelastic fields within a spheroidal inclusion embedded in the transversely isotropic matrix. Results are specialized for a cylinder, a flat rigid disk and a crack. For a penny-shaped crack, the quantities entering the crack propagation criterion are found explicitly. Received 17 February 2000; accepted for publication 9 May 2000     

压电体中裂纹与孤立电偶极子的相互作用

研究压电体裂纹与电偶极子的相互作用,得到问题的闭合解,包括应力-电位移场,裂纹张开位移和电势差,以及裂尖应力强度因子,结果表明,电偶极子的方向对裂纹场的影响可由压电体各向异性方向函数表示;当电偶极子位于裂尖附近时,在原点取在裂尖的局部极坐标系中电偶极子位置的极角对裂尖场的影响可由各向异性方向函数表示,电偶极子引起的裂尖应力强度因子与其距裂尖的距离的-3/2次幂成正比。     

Dynamic interaction between a matrix crack and a circular inhomogeneity with a distinct interphase

This article provides a theoretical treatment of the dynamic interaction between a matrix crack and an arbitrarily located circular inhomogeneity with a distinct interphase under antiplane loading. The matrix⧹inhomogeneity interphase is characterized by a linear spring model. The theoretical formulations governing the steady state problem are based upon the use of integral transform techniques, Bessel function expansions and a Pseudo-incident wave technique. The closed form expression for the resulting stress intensity factor at the matrix crack is obtained by solving the appropriate singular integral equations using Chebyshev polynomials. Typical examples are provided to show the effect of the location of the inhomogeneity, the material combination and the interface property upon the dynamic stress intensity factor of the matrix crack.     

The interaction between a screw dislocation and a rigid wedge inhomogeneity with an elastic circular inhomogeneity at the tip

The interaction between a screw dislocation and an elastic semi-cylindrical inhomogeneity abutting on a rigid half-plane is investigated. Utilizing the image dislocations method, the closed form solutions of the stress fields in the matrix and the inhomogeneity region are derived. The image force acting on the dislocation is also calculated. The results were used to study the interaction between a screw dislocation and a rigid wedge inhomogeneity with an elastic circular inhomogeneity at the tip by means of conformal mapping. The results show that an unstable equilibrium point of the dislocation near the semi-cylindrical inhomogeneity is found when the inhomogeneity is softer than the matrix. Moreover, the force on the dislocation is strongly affected by the position of the dislocation and the shear modulus of the semi-circular inhomogeneity. Positive screw dislocations can reduce the SIF of the rigid wedge inhomogeneity (shielding effect) only when it located in the lower half-plane. The shielding effect increases with the increase of the shear modulu of both the matrix and the inhomogeneity and increases with the increase of the wedge angle. The shielding effect (or anti-shielding effect) reaches the maximum when the dislocation tends to the wedge inhomogeneity interface.