Mixed-mode stress intensity factors of 3D interface crack in fully coupled electromagnetothermoelastic multiphase composites

This contribution presents an extended hypersingular intergro-differential equation (E-HIDE) method for modeling the 3D interface crack problem in fully coupled electromagnetothermoelastic anisotropic multiphase composites under extended electro-magneto-thermo-elastic coupled loads through theoretical analysis and numerical simulations. First, based on the extended boundary element method, the 3D interface crack problem is reduced to solving a set of E-HIDEs coupled with extended boundary integral equations, in which the unknown functions are the extended displacement discontinuities. Then, the behavior of the extended singular stress indices around the interface crack front terminating at the interface is analyzed by the extended main-part analysis. The extended stress intensity factors near the crack front are defined. In addition, a numerical method for a 3D interface crack problem subjected to extended loads is proposed, in which the extended displacement discontinuities are approximated by the product of basic density functions and polynomials. Finally, the radiation distribution of extended stress intensity factors at the interface crack surface are calculated, and the results are presented toward demonstrating the applicability of the proposed method.     

基于扩展有限元法的混凝土细观断裂破坏过程模拟

扩展有限元法（XFEM）是分析不连续力学问题（特别是断裂问题）的一种有效的数值方法。在常规的有限元位移模式中,基于单位分解的思想加入一个跳跃函数和渐进缝尖位移场来对不连续体附近的节点自由度进行局部加强,从而反映了位移的不连续性。介绍了扩展有限元的基本原理,给出了扩展有限元进行混凝土开裂及裂纹扩展的分析方法,最后采用扩展有限元法模拟了湿筛混凝土单轴拉伸作用下及WinklerL-型混凝土板的细观断裂破坏过程。分析了混凝土裂纹萌生、扩展的过程及破坏形态,数值结果与实验结果吻合良好。研究表明：扩展有限元法通过特定的位移模式,使裂纹两侧不连续位移场的表达独立于网格划分,能有效地模拟混凝土材料细观断裂破坏过程。     

三维无限体中两平行平片裂纹相互干扰的超奇异积分方程解法

本文利用三维断裂力学的超奇异积分方程求解理论，对三维无限体中两平行平片裂纹在任意载荷作用下的相互干扰问题作了研究。首先导出了以裂纹面移间断（位借）为未知函数的超奇异积分方程组，然后为其建立了有限积分边界元法；在此基础上，讨论用了裂纹面位移间断计算应力强度因子的方法，最后用此计算了两平行平片裂纹的相对位置对裂前沿应力强度因子的影响，其数值结果令人满意。     

The analysis of crack problems with non-local elasticity

IntroductionTheclassicalconhnuummechanicshasbeenusedtosolvemanyproblemsinmacrofracturemechanics,butencountersdifficulheswhentheeffectofITilcrocharacteristicdimensionshouldbetakenintoaccount.Thestressfieldverynearthecracktipisstillnotclear.Somephenomenaofshortcrackscannotbeexplained["']andsomemechanismoffracturehasnotbeensolvedyet.Thenon-localelashcitytheoryseemsattractivetotheseproblems.Thetheoryofnon-localelasticity,establishedanddevelopedbyEringenetal[3),connectstheclassicalcontinuummechan…     

Kinked crack analysis by a hybridized boundary element/boundary collocation method

In this research a two dimensional displacement discontinuity method (which is a kind of indirect boundary element method) using higher order elements (i.e. a source element with a cubic variation of displacement discontinuities having four sub-elements) is used to obtain the displacement discontinuities along each boundary element. In this paper, three kinds of the higher order boundary elements are used: the ordinary elements, the kink elements and the special crack tip elements.The boundary collocation technique is used for the calculation of the displacement discontinuities at the center of each sub-elements. Again a special boundary collocation technique is used to treat the kinked source elements occur in the crack analysis. Considering the two source elements (each having four sub-elements) joined at a corner (kink point). The collocation points in the cubic element model which are outside of the kink point are moved to the crack kink then the displacement discontinuities on the left and right sides of the kink are calculated. The displacement discontinuities of the kink point are obtained by averaging the corresponding values of its left and right sides. The special crack tip elements are also treated by the boundary displacement collocation technique considering the singularity variation of the displacements and stresses near the crack tip. Some simple example problems are solved numerically by the proposed method. The numerical results are compared with the corresponding results obtained by the previous methods cited in the literature. This comparison shows a very good agreement between the results and verify the accuracy and validity of the proposed method.     

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.     

Application of hypersingular integral equation method to three-dimensional crack in electromagnetothermoelastic multiphase composites

A three-dimensional crack problem in electromagnetothermoelastic multiphase composites (EMTE-MCs) under extended loads is investigated in this paper. Using Green’s functions, the extended general displacement solutions are obtained by the boundary element method. This crack problem is reduced to solving a set of hypersingular integral equations coupled with boundary integral equations, in which the unknown functions are the extended displacement discontinuities. Then, the behavior of the extended displacement discontinuities around the crack front terminating at the interface is analyzed by the main-part analysis method of hypersingular integral equations. Analytical solutions for the extended singular stresses, the extended stress intensity factors (SIFs) and the extended energy release rate near the crack front in EMTE-MCs are provided. Also, a numerical method of the hypersingular integral equations for a rectangular crack subjected to extended loads is put forward with the extended displacement discontinuities approximated by the product of basic density functions and polynomials. In addition, distributions of extended SIFs varying with the shape of the crack are presented. The results show that the present method accurately yields smooth variations of extended SIFs along the crack front.     

APPLICATION OF THE HYPERSINGULAR INTEGRAL EQUATIONS METHOD TO THE INTERACTION BETWEEN TWO PARALLEL PLANAR CRACKS IN 3-D ELASTICITY

By using the analytic theory of hypersingular integral equations in three-dimensional fracture mechanics, the interactions between two parallel planar cracksunder arbitrary loads are investigated. According to the concepts and method of finite-part integrals, a set of hypersingular integral equations is derived, in which theunknown functions are the displacement discontinuities of the crack surfaces. Then itsnumerical method is proposed by combining the finite-part integral method with theboundary element method. Based on the above results, the method for calculating thestress intensity factors with the displacement discontinuities of the crack surfaces ispresented. Finally, several typical examples are calculated and the numerical resultsare satisfactory.     

Hypersingular integral equation method for a three-dimensional crack in anisotropic electro-magneto-elastic bimaterials

Using Green’s functions, the extended general displacement solutions of a three-dimensional crack problem in anisotropic electro-magneto-elastic (EME) bimaterials under extended loads are analyzed by the boundary element method. Then, the crack problem is reduced to solving a set of hypersingular integral equations (HIE) coupled with boundary integral equations. The singularity of the extended displacement discontinuities around the crack front terminating at the interface is analyzed by the main-part analysis method of HIE, and the exact analytical solutions of the extended singular stresses and extended stress intensity factors (SIFs) near the crack front in anisotropic EME bimaterials are given. Also, the numerical method of the HIE for a rectangular crack subjected to extended loads is put forward with the extended crack opening dislocation approximated by the product of basic density functions and polynomials. At last, numerical solutions of the extended SIFs of some examples are obtained.     

Finite-part integral and boundary element method to solve flat crack problems

Using the Somigliana formula and the concepts of finite-part integral, a set of hypersingular integral equations to solve the arbitrary fiat crack in three-dimensional elasticity is derived and its numerical method is then proposed by combining the finitepart integral method with boundary element method. In order to verify the method, several numerical examples are carried out. The results of the displacement discontinuities of the crack surface and the stress intensity factors at the crack front are in good agrernent with the' theoretical solutions.     

改进型扩展比例边界有限元法

结合了扩展有限元法(extended finite elementmethods,XFEM)和比例边界有限元法(scaled boundary finite elementmethods,SBFEM)的主要优点,提出了一种改进型扩展比例边界有限元法(improvedextended scaled boundary finite elementmethods,$i$XSBFEM),为断裂问题模拟提供了一条新的途径.类似XFEM,采用两个正交的水平集函数表征材料内部裂纹面,并基于水平集函数判断单元切割类型;将被裂纹切割的单元作为SBFE的子域处理,采用SBFEM求解单元刚度矩阵,从而避免了XFEM中求解不连续单元刚度矩阵需要进一步进行单元子划分的缺陷;同时,借助XFEM的主要思想,将裂纹与单元边界交点的真实位移作为单元结点的附加自由度考虑,赋予了单元结点附加自由度明确的物理意义,可以直接根据位移求解结果得出裂纹与单元边界交点的位移;对于含有裂尖的单元,选取围绕裂尖单元一圈的若干层单元作为超级单元,并将此超级单元作为SBFE的一个子域求解刚度矩阵,超级单元内部的结点位移可通过SBFE的位移模式求解得到,应力强度因子可基于裂尖处的奇异位移(应力)直接获得,无需借助其他的数值方法.最后,通过若干数值算例验证了建议的$i$XSBFEM的有效性,相比于常规XFEM,$i$XSBFEM的基于位移范数的相对误差收敛性较好;采用$i$XSBFEM通过应力法和位移法直接计算得到的裂尖应力强度因子均与解析解吻合\较好.      

Analysis method of planar cracks of arbitrary shape in the isotropic plane of a three-dimensional transversely isotropic magnetoelectroelastic medium

The hyper-singular boundary integral equation method of crack analysis in three-dimensional transversely isotropic magnetoelectroelastic media is proposed. Based on the fundamental solutions or Green’s functions of three-dimensional transversely isotropic magnetoelectroelastic media and the corresponding Somigliana identity, the boundary integral equations for a planar crack of arbitrary shape in the plane of isotropy are obtained in terms of the extended displacement discontinuities across crack faces. The extended displacement discontinuities include the displacement discontinuities, the electric potential discontinuity and the magnetic potential discontinuity, and correspondingly the extended tractions on crack face represent the conventional tractions, the electric displacement and the magnetic induction boundary values. The near crack tip fields and the intensity factors in terms of the extended displacement discontinuities are derived by boundary integral equation approach. A solution method is proposed by use of the analogy between the boundary integral equations of the magnetoelectroelastic media and the purely elastic materials. The influence of different electric and magnetic boundary conditions, i.e., electrically and magnetically impermeable and permeable conditions, electrically impermeable and magnetically permeable condition, and electrically permeable and magnetically impermeable condition, on the solutions is studied. The crack opening model is proposed to consider the real crack opening and the electric and magnetic fields in the crack cavity under combined mechanical-electric-magnetic loadings. An iteration approach is presented for the solution of the non-linear model. The exact solution is obtained for the case of uniformly applied loadings on the crack faces. Numerical results for a square crack under different electric and magnetic boundary conditions are displayed to demonstrate the proposed method.     

一种基于直接计算高阶奇异积分的断裂力学双边界积分方程分析法

相对于有限元法,边界单元法在求解断裂问题上有着独特的优势,现有的边界单元法中主要有子区域法和双边界积分方程法.采用一种改进的双边界积分方程法求解二维、三维断裂问题的应力强度因子,对非裂纹边界采用传统的位移边界积分方程,只需对裂纹面中的一面采用面力边界积分方程,并以裂纹间断位移为未知量直接用于计算应力强度因子.采用一种高阶奇异积分的直接法计算面力边界积分方程中的超强奇异积分;对于裂纹尖端单元,提供了三种不同形式的间断位移插值函数,采用两点公式计算应力强度因子.给出了多个具体的算例,与现存的精确解或参考解对比,可得到高精度的计算结果.      

三维有限体平片裂纹的超奇异积分方程与边界元法

利用Ｓｏｍｉｇｌｉａｎａ公式及有限部积分的概念，导出了含任意平片裂纹三维有限体问题的超奇异积分方程组，并联合使用有限部积分与边界元法，建立了数值求解方法．在裂纹前沿附近单元，采用与理论分析一致的平方根位移模型，以提高数值结果的精度．最后计算了若干典型例子的应力强度因子．     

双材料界面裂纹的改进广义有限差分法

采用数值方法进行断裂力学分析时,裂纹尖端奇异区域处理的好坏直接关系到最终断裂力学参数的求解精度。与传统均匀介质不同,复合材料界面裂纹渐近位移和应力场表现出剧烈的振荡特性,许多用于表征经典的平方根和负平方根物理场渐近性的传统方法也因此失效。论文提出了一种改进的广义有限差分法,该方法基于多元函数泰勒级数展开和移动最小二乘法的思想,将节点变量的各阶导数由相邻点集函数的加权线性累加来近似,具有无网格、无数值积分、数据准备简单、稀疏矩阵快速求解等优点。为提高该方法求解断裂力学问题的计算精度和数值稳定性,论文引入了裂尖奇异区域局部点簇的自动创建技术和一种基于局部点簇几何尺寸的矩阵正则化算法。数值算例表明,所提算法稳定,效率高,在不增加计算量的前提下,显著提高了裂尖近场力学参量和断裂力学参数的求解精度和数值稳定性。     

Analysis of an interfacial crack in a piezoelectric bi-material via the extended Green’s functions and displacement discontinuity method

Based on the extended Stroh formalism, we first derive the extended Green’s functions for an extended dislocation and displacement discontinuity located at the interface of a piezoelectric bi-material. These include Green’s functions of the extended dislocation, displacement discontinuities within a finite interval and the concentrated displacement discontinuities, all on the interface. The Green’s functions are then applied to obtain the integro-differential equation governing the interfacial crack. To eliminate the oscillating singularities associated with the delta function in the Green’s functions, we represent the delta function in terms of the Gaussian distribution function. In so doing, the integro-differential equation is reduced to a standard integral equation for the interfacial crack problem in piezoelectric bi-material with the extended displacement discontinuities being the unknowns. A simple numerical approach is also proposed to solve the integral equation for the displacement discontinuities, along with the asymptotic expressions of the extended intensity factors and J-integral in terms of the discontinuities near the crack tip. In numerical examples, the effect of the Gaussian parameter on the numerical results is discussed, and the influence of different extended loadings on the interfacial crack behaviors is further investigated.     

Fracture analysis of mode III crack problems for the piezoelectric bimorph

In this paper, a symplectic method based on the Hamiltonian system is proposed to analyze the interfacial fracture in the piezoelectric bimorph under anti-plane deformation. A set of Hamiltonian governing equations is derived from the Hamiltonian function by introducing dual variables of generalized displacements and stresses which can be expanded in series in terms of the symplectic eigensolutions. With the aid of the adjoint symplectic orthogonality, coefficients of the series are determined by the boundary conditions along the crack faces and along the external geometry. The stress\electric displacement intensity factors and energy release rates (G) directly relate to the first few terms of the nonzero eigenvalue solutions. The two ideal crack boundary conditions, namely the electrically impermeable and permeable crack assumptions, are considered. Numerical examples including the complex mixed boundary conditions are considered to show fracture behaviors of the interface crack and discuss the influencing factors.     

Non-homogeneous displacement jumps in strong embedded discontinuities

In this paper, strong discontinuities are embedded in finite elements to describe fracture in quasi-brittle materials. A new numerical formulation is introduced in which the displacement jumps do not need to be homogeneous within each finite element. Both the crack path and the displacement jumps are continuous across element boundaries. This formulation is compared with the discrete approach, in which interface elements are inserted to model the discontinuities, as well as with other embedded discontinuity approaches and with the partition of unity method. Numerical results have been obtained with relatively coarse meshes, which compare well with experimental results and with the results obtained from analyzes with interface elements.     

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.     

Analysis of bonded anisotropic wedges with interface crack under anti-plane shear loading

The antiplane stress analysis of two anisotropic finite wedges with arbitrary radii and apex angles that are bonded together along a common edge is investigated. The wedge radial boundaries can be subjected to displacement-displacement boundary condi- tions, and the circular boundary of the wedge is free from any traction. The new finite complex transforms are employed to solve the problem. These finite complex transforms have complex analogies to both kinds of standard finite Mellin transforms. The traction free condition on the crack faces is expressed as a singular integral equation by using the exact analytical method. The explicit terms for the strength of singularity are extracted, showing the dependence of the order of the stress singularity on the wedge angle, material constants, and boundary conditions. A numerical method is used for solving the resul- tant singular integral equations. The displacement boundary condition may be a general term of the Taylor series expansion for the displacement prescribed on the radial edge of the wedge. Thus, the analysis of every kind of displacement boundary conditions can be obtained by the achieved results from the foregoing general displacement boundary condition. The obtained stress intensity factors （SIFs） at the crack tips are plotted and compared with those obtained by the finite element analysis （FEA）.