Mode I and mode II crack tip asymptotic fields with strain gradient effects

The strain gradient effect becomes significant when the size of fracture process zone around a crack tip is comparable to the intrinsic material lengthl, typically of the order of microns. Using the new strain gradient deformation theory given by Chen and Wang, the asymptotic fields near a crack tip in an elastic-plastic material with strain gradient effects are investigated. It is established that the dominant strain field is irrotational. For mode I plane stress crack tip asymptotic field, the stress asymptotic field and the couple stress asymptotic field can not exist simultaneously. In the stress dominated asymptotic field, the angular distributions of stresses are consistent with the classical plane stress HRR field; In the couple stress dominated asymptotic field, the angular distributions of couple stresses are consistent with that obtained by Huang et al. For mode II plane stress and plane strain crack tip asymptotic fields, only the stress-dominated asymptotic fields exist. The couple stress asymptotic field is less singular than the stress asymptotic fields. The stress asymptotic fields are the same as mode II plane stress and plane strain HRR fields, respectively. The increase in stresses is not observed in strain gradient plasticity for mode I and mode II, because the present theory is based only on the rotational gradient of deformation and the crack tip asymptotic fields are irrotational and dominated by the stretching gradient. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (19704100), National Natural Science Foundation of Chinese Academy of Sciences (KJ951-1-20), CAS K.C. Wong Post-doctoral Research Award Fund and Post-doctoral Science Fund of China     

Solution of the plane stress problems of strain-hardening materials described by power-law using the complex pseudo-stress function

In the present paper,the compatibility equation for the plane stress problems of power-law materials is transformed into a biharmonic equation by introducing the so-calledcomplex pseudo-stress function,which makes it possible to solve the elastic-plastic planestress problems of strain hardening materials described by power-law using the complexvariable function method like that in the linear elasticity theory.By using this generalmethod,the close-formed analytical solutions for the stress,strain and displacementcomponents of the plane stress problems’of power-law materials is deduced in the paper,which can also be used to solve the elasto-plastic plane stress problems of strain-hardeningmaterials other than that described by power-law.As an example,the problem of a power-law material infinite plate containing a circular hole under uniaxial tension is solved byusing this method,the results of which are compared with those of a known asymptoticanalytical solution obtained by the perturbation method.     

An analysis of thermally-induced plane waves in elastic-plastic single crystals

A framework for the calculation of thermally-induced plane waves in elastic-plastic single crystals of arbitrary crystallographic symmetry and orientation is presented. Plasticity is described in terms of small strain theory and the available slip-planes which can be arbitrary in number as well as in orientation. The effects of perfect-plasticity modify not only the anisotropic elastic moduli, but also the components of the Grüneisen tensor. The latter effect is a consequence of a non-spherical stress state developed in anisotropic materials during rapid energy-absorption at constant strain. Specific examples of thermally-induced plane waves are presented for both the elastic and plastic response of beryllium and graphite single-crystals.     

Analysis to the stress and strain structures of mode I 3-D crack in elastic-plastic state

In this paper, the stress and strain structures of Mode I 3-D crack in power hardening material are studied by analyzing the fundamental equations of elastic-plastic mechanics. It is shown that three regions, Z1,Z2 and Z3 can be divided in the thickness direction according to the stress characteristic. In region Z1, the stress components in the plane Perpendicular to z axis (thickness direction) can be solved first using the fundamental equations of plane strain state; in region Z3, they can be solved first by the equations of plane stress state. The region Z2 is defined as a transition layer. It is shown that the transition layer is the characteristic of Mode I 3-D crack in elastic-plastic state, and it is significant to the research on 3-D fracture. The crack tip opening displacement CTOD is chosen to describe the amplitude coefficient of the local stress field, and the distribution of CTOD in 3-D state is investigated.The project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China.     

A centrally cracked thin circular disk, Part I: 3D Elastic–plastic finite element analysis

A full field solution, based on small deformation, three-dimensional elastic–plastic finite element analysis of the centrally cracked thin disk under mode I loading has been performed. The solution for the stresses under small-scale yielding and lo!cally fully plastic state has been compared with the HRR plane stress solution. At the outside of the 3D zone, within a distance of rσ_o/J=18, HRR dominance is maintained in the presence of a significant amount of compressive stress along the crack flanks. Ahead of this region, the HRR field overestimate the stresses. These results demonstrate a completely reversed state of stress in the near crack front compared to that in the plane strain case. The combined effect of geometry and finite thickness of the specimen on elastic–plastic crack tip stress field has been explored. To the best of our knowledge, such an attempt in the published literature has not been made yet. For the qualitative assessment of the results some of the field parameters have been compared to the available experimental results of K, gives a fair estimate of the crack opening stress near the crack front at a distance of order 10⁻² in. On the basis of this analysis, the Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics approach has been adopted in analyzing the fatigue crack extension experiments performed in the disk (Part II).     

A Plane-Strain Formulation of Elastic-Plastic Constitutive Laws

ABSTRACT

Constitutive laws for elastic-plastic materials are derived by eliminating the transverse stress component on the basis of the plane-strain constraint. This leads to a fictitious hardening and temperature dependence of the loading function. For standard elastic-plastic materials the resulting laws are associated; however, the plastic strain state is represented by equivalent plastic-strain measures, which also account for transverse yielding. The new constitutive laws, together with the standard reduced form of the equilibrium and compatibility equations, permit the formulation of the plane-strain elastic-plastic analysis problem in terms of the in-plane stress components only. In the case of perfectly plastic materials, the subsequent plane-strain yield surfaces are contained within a domain bounded by a limit surface which represents the yield condition normally adopted in plane-strain limit analysis.     

The applicability of slip-line field theory to contained elastic-plastic flow around a notch

Recent calculations by J.R. Griffiths and D.R.J. Owen (1971) on the growth of the elastic-plastic stresses for the plane strain bending of a V-notched bar reveal an interesting phenomenon : the stress maximum lies some way before the elastic-plastic interface, inside the plastic zone. Later calculations have confirmed this effect, for both work-hardening and perfectly-plastic von Mises and Tresca materials. At low applied loads the calculated stresses conflict with plastic slip-line field theory. This result is important, because it means that notch stresses before general yield cannot readily be deduced by etching up plastically-yielded zones. This paper explains the conflict analytically.     

弹性、弹塑性材料显式模拟计算中的准静态加载速度研究

摘 要：动力学显式算法采用时间积分原理，其较静力学隐式算法在强非线性问题中的适用性更广。为将此方法应用到岩土等非线性材料的计算中，考虑到显式算法中动能的影响会导致结果波动，分析动力学显式算法在模拟计算中的准静态加载速度的选取十分必要,如何在缩短模拟消耗时间与结果准确性之间寻求平衡是本文研究重点。研究中提出以加载-位移曲线的波动比来评价准静态计算效果，首先开展弹性材料的平面应变模拟试验以分析弹模、密度、泊松比、围压4个参数对准静态加载速度取值的影响，结果表明：弹模、泊松比、围压的增大会提高准静态加载速度；密度的增大则会减小准静态加载速度。通过对各影响因素与准静态加载速度的相关性分析给出了准静态加载速度取值的经验公式。最后，选取能够反映砂土复杂力学特性的弹塑性本构模型，开展其平面应变模拟试验，对比分析准静态加载速度经验公式在弹性材料与弹塑性材料中的适用性差异，并提出应用建议公式。     

Asymptotic fields for interface crack in elastic-plastic material

Exact mathematical analyses are presented for interface crack between dissimilar elastic-plastic materials. The deformation theory of plasticity is used. For two kinds of boundary conditions on crack faces: (1) traction free and (2) frictionless contact, the asymptotic separable solutions of the HRR type with full continuity are obtained, which exist only for special mixity parameterM ^p. For any assignedM ^p, the separable solutions of the HRR type which contained weak discontinued line are further obtained. All of our results not only satisfy the continuity of displacements and that of tractions on the interface, but also they are free of oscillatory singularity and interpenetration of crack faces.This investigation is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China     

CRACK PROPAGATION IN POLYCRYSTALLINE ELASTIC-VISCOPLASTIC MATERIALS USING COHESIVE ZONE MODELS

Cohesive zone model was used to simulate two-dimensional plane strain crack propagation at the grain level model including grain boundary zones. Simulated results show that the original crack-tip may not be separated firstly in an elastic-viscoplastic polycrystals. The grain interior's material properties (e.g. strain rate sensitivity) characterize the competitions between plastic and cohesive energy dissipation mechanisms. The higher the strain rate sensitivity is, the larger amount of the external work is transformed into plastic dissipation energy than into cohesive energy, which delays the cohesive zone rupturing. With the strain rate sensitivity decreased, the material property tends to approach the elastic-plastic responses. In this case, the plastic dissipation energy decreases and the cohesive dissipation energy increases which accelerates the cohesive zones debonding. Increasing the cohesive strength or the critical separation displacement will reduce the stress triaxiality at grain interiors and grain boundaries. Enhancing the cohesive zones ductility can improve the matrix materials resistance to void damage.     

复杂应力状态下岩土材料非线性本构模型研究

基于统一强度理论,将洛德参数引入统一强度理论,推导出材料的统一强度参数,进而分析中间主应力以及主剪应力系数对材料统一强度参数的影响。在此基础上,对邓肯张双曲线模型进行改进,使得该模型能够反映复杂应力状态下的应力应变关系。采用粘土的平面应变试验进行验证,结果表明:在平面应变情况下,当b=0.4时,模型能够较好地反映粘土的应力应变关系,及其强度参数。分析了洛德参数以及中间主应力系数对模型的影响,进一步说明岩土材料存在主应力效应。该模型能够反映不同材料在复杂应力状态下的应力应变关系,有其更为广泛的适用性。     

弹塑性材料的平面应力非连续分岔

基于平面应力非连续分岔特性的一般描述,运用统一强度理论,得出了非相关流动情形的弹塑性材料平面应力非连续分岔的起始方位角以及相应的最大硬化模量的统一解析解,并且分析了材料拉压异性以及不同程度的中间应力对结果的影响,进而发现所得的结果一强度准则的选取有关,揭示了在分岔研究中正确选取符合材料特性的强度准则的重要性。最后,同特线理论比较发现平面应力剪切带型非连续分岔同平面应力特征线重合。     

Three-fold symmetry restrictions on two-dimensional micropolar materials

Analysis of the mechanical properties of engineering materials with microstructure generally requires modification of the concept of a simple material. One approach is the theory of micropolar materials which introduces an independent rotation of a material element and the resulting stress and strain tensors are generally non-symmetric. In two-dimensional material models these microstructures are often represented by geometries which exhibit three-fold symmetry in the plane. In this work we investigate the form of the constitutive relations which this three-fold symmetry imposes. We show that three-fold symmetry requires both the stress and couple stress tensors to be isotropic in the plane. We obtain specific constitutive relations for an equilateral triangle structure and for a hexagonal or honeycomb structure and compare these results with the results of previous investigations of these two-dimensional material models.     

ANALYSIS OF PARAMETERS IN GRANULAR SOLID HYDRODYNAMICS FOR TRIAXIAL COMPRESSION TESTS

Granular materials are omnipresent in industries and in nature. For small strains, elastic-plastic and hypoplastic constitutive relations are widely used in engineering practice, but they are not a significant reflection of the underlying physics. Under a unified thermodynamics framework explaining the physics of materials, granular solid hydrodynamics （GSH） was an ex- tension towards describing granular materials, not only solid-like, but also fluid-like behaviors. In this paper, the fundamentals of GSH are briefly treated and then simplified to analyze quasi- static deformations in triaxial compressions. The calculated stress-strain relations and volumetric strain are compared with experimental results. The influences of the major parameters in GSH, especially their cross coupling influences, are analyzed and their physical meanings are further clarified. After parameters were calibrated, the calculated stress values in the characteristic stress state are found to be within 22% of tested values. Meanwhile, the energy dissipation during triaxial compression is analyzed. The above results support and partially quantify GSH.     

考虑晶体滑移面分解正应力的细观损伤模型

材料内部的解理、滑移面剥离等细观损伤是引起宏观失效的根源, 从细观尺度研究损伤的发生和发展有助于深入认识材料的变形和失效过程. 本文基于晶体塑性理论, 从滑移系的受力和变形出发研究材料的细观损伤, 建立了考虑滑移面分解正应力的细观损伤模型, 为晶体材料解理断裂的分析提供了新方法. 首先, 在晶体弹塑性变形构型的基础上引入损伤变形梯度张量的概念, 从变形运动学着手建立了考虑损伤能量耗散的本构方程, 并推导了塑性流动方程与损伤演化方程; 然后, 建立了相应的数值计算方法, 给出了应力与状态变量的更新算法, 推导了Jacobian矩阵的表达式; 接着, 以$[100]$取向的单晶铜材料为例, 通过有限元计算与试验结果的对比, 并采用粒子群优化算法标定了11个材料细观参数; 最后, 将所提细观损伤模型应用于RVE单轴拉伸过程的模拟, 得到了考虑损伤影响的应力应变曲线, 并分析了材料的塑性流动与损伤演化过程. 结果表明, 本文所提模型能够计算材料在受载过程中的损伤累积效应, 合理反映晶体材料的细观损伤机理.      

Finite Bending of a Rectangular Block of an Elastic Hencky Material

Hencky's elasticity model is an isotropic, finite hyperelastic equation obtained by simply replacing the Cauchy stress tensor and the infinitesimal strain tensor in the classical Hooke's law for isotropic infinitesimal elasticity with the Kirchhoff stress tensor and Hencky's logarithmic strain tensor. A study by Anand in 1979 and 1986 indicates that it is a realistic finite elasticity model that is in good accord with experimental data for a variety of engineering materials for moderate deformations. Most recently, by virtue of well-founded physical grounds and rigorous mathematical procedures it has been demonstrated by these authors that this model may be essential to achieving self-consistent Eulerian rate type theories of finite inelasticity, e.g., the J ₂-flow theory for metal plasticity, etc. Its predictions have been studied for some typical deformation modes, including extension, simple shear and torsion, etc. Here we are concerned with finite bending of a rectangular block. We show that a closed-form solution may be obtained. We present explicit expressions for the bending angle and the bending moment in terms of the maximum or minimum circumferential stretch in a general case of compressible deformations for any assigned stretch normal to the bending plane. In particular, simplified results are derived for the plane strain case and for the case of incompressibility. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Reduction of dimensions in random,elastic soil medium

The paper deals with an application of the plane strain analysis in a stochastic three-dimensional soil medium. In a framework of random elasticity theory, the geostatical state of stresses and the problem of a unit force acting in a statistically homogeneous half-space are considered. Only the modulus of elasticity is considered to be random and is modelled as a three-dimensional (3-D) homogeneous random field. As the result of imposed constrains due to the plane strain assumption the additional body and surface forces are induced. In order to determine them, additional equations must be introduced. The equations in a form of constrain relations are proposed in this paper. These equations are also valid for a case of uniformly distributed external loading.First, the two-dimensional (2-D) problem and its reduction to the uni-axial strain state, for the gravity forces and uniform, unlimited surface loading is considered. Then, it is generalised into a 2-D schematization of the 3-D state. Next, the problem of a unit force acting in a statistically homogeneous half-space is considered. For a 3-D state of stress and strain the resulting stresses are compared with those for a 2-D state. These stresses for the multidimensional state of strain and stress are presented as a sum of two components. The first one reflects plane strain state stresses and is given in a form of a 3-D random field. This term allows for incorporating a spatial, 3-D soil variability into a two-dimensional analysis. The second component can be treated as a correction term and it represents the longitudinal influence of a 3-D analysis.Some numerical results are presented in this paper. The proposed method can be regarded as a framework for further research aiming at application to a variety of geotechnical problems, for which the plane strain state is assumed.     

Crack-tip fields in steady crack-growth with linear strain-hardening

Singular stress and strain fields are found at the tip of a crack growing steadily and quasi-statically into an elastic-plastic strain-hardening material. The material is characterized byJ₂ flow theory together with a bilinear effective stress-strain curve. The cases of anti-plane shear, plane stress and plane strain are each considered. Numerical results are given for the order of the singularity, details of the stress and strain-rate fields, and the near-tip regions of plastic loading and elastic unloading.     

Crack-tip fields for fast fracture of an elastic-plastic material

An asymptotic analysis of the near-tip fields is given for transient crack propagation in an elastic-plastic material. The material is characterized by J₂ flow theory together with a bilinear effective stress-strain curve. Both plane stress and plane strain conditions have been considered. Explicit results are given for the order of the crack-tip singularity, the angular position at which unloading occurs, and the angular variation of the near-tip stresses, all as functions of the crack-tip speed and the ratio of the slopes of the two portions of the bilinear stress-strain relation. It was found that the results are much more sensitive to the elastic-plastic constitutive relation than to the crack speed. This result is important for numerical analyses of dynamic crack propagation problems.