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     

Electromagnetic twisting of a penny-shaped crack in an elastic conducting cylinder

This paper deals with the electromagnetoelastic problem of an elastic, conducting circular cylinder with a penny-shaped crack under a uniform axial current flow and a constant axial magnetic field. The current flow is disturbed by the presence of the crack and the torsional stresses are caused by the interactions between the magnetic field and the disturbed current. Two problems concerning the electric current density field and the electromagnetoelastic field are formulated by means of integral transform techniques and reduced to two Fredholm integral equations of the second kind. Numerical calculations are carried out and stress intensity factors are obtained for several values of the geometric parameters.     

集中力作用下含尖孔无限域的反平面剪切问题

论文采用了一种新的方法求解含孔元发域的反平面剪切问题，以闭合形式导出了在集中力作用下，孔口尖点的应力强度因子表达式。同时，给出了对称翼状尖孔、内摆线状尖孔、震状尖孔及圆孔径向边裂纹的应力强度因子，其结果在理论上和应用中都具有重要的意义。     

Electroelastic state of an infinite multiply connected piezoelectric plate with known electric potentials applied to its boundaries

Generalized complex potentials, their expressions for a domain with elliptic holes, and the discrete least-squares method are used to analyze the generalized plane electroelastic state of a piezoelectric plate having holes and cracks with electric potentials applied to their boundaries. There are no mechanical loads. A numerical analysis is conducted. The effect of the applied voltage on the electroelastic state of the plate is examined     

Stress wave fields in plates weakened by curvilinear holes with edge cracks

The dynamic fracture of plates weakened by holes with edge cracks and subjected to impulsive loading is studied using the dynamic photoelastic method. The time dependences of the stress intensity factors and the crack growth rate are examined for three models of plates with circular holes and edge cracks __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 79–84, February 2006.     

Electromagnetoelastic problem for a plate with holes and cracks

The methods of complex potentials, conformal mappings, and least squares are used to solve a plane problem of electromagnetoelasticity for a plate with holes and cracks. Numerical solutions are found for a ring and a disk with a crack under internal concentrated forces or electric charges as well as electric potentials applied to the boundaries     

BENDING OF THIN ELECTROMAGNETOELASTIC PLATES

Journal of Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics - Main correlations in the theory of bending of thin electromagnetoelastic plates are obtained, in which complex potentials are used. Exact...     

Combined analysis of fracture under stresses acting along cracks

A joint approach to the study of two non-classical fracture mechanisms, namely fracture of cracked materials with initial (residual) stresses acting along the crack planes and fracture under compression along parallel cracks, is considered in the framework of three-dimensional linearized solid mechanics. Mathematical statements of problems for pre-stressed solids that contain interacting circular cracks are given. Problems for an infinite solid containing two parallel co-axial cracks and for a space with the periodical set of co-axial parallel cracks as well as for a half-space with near-the-surface crack are solved. Several patterns of loading on the crack faces (normal loading, radial shear and torsion) are considered. The effects of initial stresses on stress intensity factors are analyzed for highly elastic materials with some types of elastic potentials. Formulation of fracture criteria accounting effect of initial (residual) stresses is given. Critical parameters of fracture of solids containing interacting cracks under compression along the cracks are calculated. The influence of geometrical parameters of the problems as well as physical and mechanical properties of materials on these critical parameters is analyzed.     

Electromagnetoelastic behaviors of functionally graded piezoelectric

Analytical studies on electromagnetoelastic behaviors are presented for the functionally graded piezoelectric material (FGPM) solid cylinder and sphere placed in a uniform magnetic field and subjected to the external pressure and electric loading. When the mechanical, electric and magnetic properties of the material obey an identical power law in the radial direction, the exact displacements, stresses, electric potentials and perturbations of magnetic field vector in the FGPM solid cylinder and sphere are obtained by using the infinitesimal theory of electromagnetoelasticity. Numerical examples also show the significant influence of material inhomogeneity. It is interesting to note that selecting a specific value of inhomogeneity parameter can optimize the electromagnetoelastic responses, which will be of particular importance in modern engineering designs.     

Strain and failure analysis of graphite/epoxy plates with cracks

The objective of this investigation was to study the deformation and failure of uniaxially loaded graphite/epoxy plates with cracks and to determine the influence of notch size on failure. The specimens were quasi-isotropic laminates with cracks of various lengths. They were instrumented with strain gages, photoelastic coatings and moiré grids. Strains near the crack tip show two distinct points of rate change at strain levels of 0.002 and 0.006, the latter corresponding to the ultimate strain of the 90-deg plies. Failure near the crack tip takes the form of a damage zone consisting of ply subcracking along fibers, local delamination and fiber breakage. Failure occurs when this damage zone reaches some critical value. Measured maximum strains at failure exceeded twice the ultimate strain of the unnotched laminate. The average stress over a characteristic distance (5 mm) from the crack tip was used as a criterion to describe the influence of crack length on failure. Comparison of results with those from similar specimens with circular holes showed that strength was nearly independent of notch geometry in this case, i.e., specimens with holes and cracks of the same size had nearly the same strength.     

Viscoelastic problem for piecewise homogeneous piezoelectric plates

The electromagnetoviscoelastic problem is solved for piecewise-homogeneous plates. The problem is reduced to solving a sequence of electromagnetoelastic problems with complex potentials. General representations of approximation functions for multiply connected domains and boundary conditions for their determination are given. An analytical solution of the problem for a plate with one inclusion and an approximate solution for a plate with a finite number of inclusions are obtained. The change in the electromagnetoelastic state is investigated numerically as a function of time, the properties of the plate and inclusion materials, and the distance between the inclusions.     

压电螺位错与含界面裂纹圆形涂层夹杂的干涉

研究位于基体或夹杂中任意点的压电螺型位错与含界面裂纹圆形涂层夹杂的电弹耦合干 涉问题. 运用复变函数方法，获得了基体，涂层和夹杂中复势函数的一般解答. 典型例 子给出了界面含有一条裂纹时，复势函数的精确级数形式解. 基于已获得的复势函数和广 义Peach-Koehler公式，计算了作用在位错上的像力. 讨论了裂纹几何条件，涂层厚度和材 料特性对位错平衡位置的影响规律. 结果表明，界面裂纹对涂层夹杂附近的位错运动有很大 的影响效应，含界面裂纹涂层夹杂对位错的捕获能力强于完整粘结情况；并发现界面裂纹长 度和涂层材料常数达到某一个临界值时可以改变像力的方向. 解答的特殊情形包含了以 往文献的几个结果.     

Electromagnetoelastic behaviors of functionally graded piezoelectric solid cylinder and sphere

Analytical studies on electromagnetoelastic behaviors are presented for the functionally graded piezoelectric material (FGPM) solid cylinder and sphere placed in a uniform magnetic field and subjected to the external pressure and electric loading. When the mechanical, electric and magnetic properties of the material obey an identical power law in the radial direction, the exact displacements, stresses, electric potentials and perturbations of magnetic field vector in the FGPM solid cylinder and sphere are obtained by using the infinitesimal theory of electromagnetoelasticity. Numerical examples also show the significant influence of material inhomogeneity. It is interesting to note that selecting a specific value of inhomogeneity parameter β can optimize the electromagnetoelastic responses, which will be of particular importance in modern engineering designs. The project supported by China postdoctoral science foundation (20060390260) and Hunan Postdoctoral Scientific Program. The English text was polished by Yunming Chen.     

The evolution of caustics from holes to cracks

The method of caustics was used for the study of the evolution of stress concentration around a circular hole, which progressively changes in shape and becomes an elliptic hole, tending to an internal crack. The influence of the amount of ellipticity of the holes and their orientation relative to the axis of the applied external loads at infinity on the form of caustics created around the discontinuity was studied, as the elliptic holes tended to become internal cracks. A series of experiments with tension specimens containing small elliptic holes of any ellipticity and orientation was performed. Comparison of experimentally obtained caustics with theory yielded a good agreement of both results. Finally, the use of small elliptic holes drilled all over a biaxial stress field for the determination of the individual principal stresses and the principal directions at the area of the holes was outlined.     

The mode III cracks originating from the edge of a circular hole in a piezoelectric solid

A mode III fracture problem of edge cracks originating from a circular hole in an infinite piezoelectric solid is studied based on complex variable method combined with the method of conformal mapping. Explicit and exact expressions for the complex potentials, field intensity factors and energy release rates are presented under the assumption that the surface of the cracks and hole is electrically impermeable. Numerical analysis is then conducted to discuss the influences of crack length and applied mechanical/electric loads on the field intensity factors and energy release rate for one and two edge cracks, respectively. It is found that for the case of a single edge crack, the field intensity factors are greater than those of double edge cracks, and moreover the electric loads can either promote or retard crack growth, depending on the magnitude and direction of the applied electric loads.     

Fracture analysis of circular-arc interface cracks in piezoelectric materials

The anti-plane problem of N arc-shaped interfacial cracks between a circular piezoelectric inhomogeneity and an infinite piezoelectric matrix is investigated by means of the complex variable method. Cracks are assumed to be permeable and then explicit expressions are presented, respectively, for the electric field on the crack faces, the complex potentials in media and the intensity factors near the crack-tips. As examples, the corresponding solutions are obtained for a piezoelectric bimaterial system with one or two permeable arc-shaped interfacial cracks, respectively. Additionally, the solutions for the cases of impermeable cracks also are given by treating an impermeable crack as a particular case of a permeable crack. It is shown that for the case of permeable interfacial cracks, the electric field is jumpy ahead of the crack tips, and its intensity factor is always dependent on that of stress. Moreover all the field singularities are dependent not only on the applied mechanical load, but also on the applied electric load. However, for the case of a homogeneous material with permeable cracks, all the singular factors are related only to the applied stresses and material constants.     

Elastic fields of interacting elliptic inhomogeneities

This paper presents a method for the calculation of two-dimensional elastic fields in a solid containing any number of inhomogeneities under arbitrary far field loadings. The method called pseudo-dislocations method, is illustrated for the solution of interacting elliptic inhomogeneities. It reduces the interacting inhomogeneities problem to a set of linear algebraic equations. Numerical results are presented for a variety of elliptic inhomogeneity arrangements, including the special cases of elliptic holes, cracks and circular inhomogeneities. All these complicated problems can be solved with high accuracy and efficiency.     

含功能梯度材料加强环的任意几何形状孔附近应力集中分析

基于复变函数理论,结合保角变换技术研究含功能梯度材料（FGM）加强环的任意几何形状孔附近应力集中。采用分层均匀化方法,给出了远场均布载荷作用下材料参数沿孔周法线方向任意变化的FGM加强环内的复势函数解。通过数值算例,详细讨论了加强环内杨氏模量不同变化规律对三角形、正方形、矩形等各种几何形状孔附近应力分布的影响。结果表明：通过在孔周衬入FGM加强环并合理选择加强环内材料参数的递变规律,可以有效缓解各种几何形状孔附近的应力集中。同时通过一些特例与已有文献比对验证了本文结果的正确性。     

反平面圆形夹杂和多圆孔多裂纹相互作用问题

动用复变函数及积分方法方法求解了反平面圆形夹杂和多圆孔多裂纹相互作用问题。为解决该问题,建立了两种类型的基本解。利用叠加原理和所得的基本解没圆孔和裂纹表面取待定的基本解密度函数,可得一组Ｆｒｅｄｈｏｌｍ积分方程,通过积分方程组的数值求解,可以得到密度函数的离散值,进而得到应力强度因子。     

Spontaneous Mixed-Mode Fracture in Bonded Similar and Dissimilar Materials

In this paper, we report on an experimental study of spontaneous, mixed-mode, crack propagation in weakly bonded similar and dissimilar materials. A unique experimental configuration is proposed to induce spontaneous crack growth events along the interfaces. The cracks nucleate from tiny circular holes and are triggered by an exploding wire. They subsequently propagate under the action of a constant, far-field load. Dynamic photoelasticity in conjunction with high speed photography is used to capture the real-time isochromatics associated with crack propagation. In the case of identical materials, crack propagation is anti-symmetric with respect to the crack nucleation point while strong asymmetry is observed for the case of dissimilar materials. In both cases, cracks propagate at constant velocity from the initiation point. The time histories of dynamic stress intensity factors and of energy release rates of the propagating cracks along the bonded similar materials are also reported.