A unified theory for brittle and ductile shear mode fracture

A unified theory captures both brittle and ductile fracture. The fracture toughness is proportional to the applied stress squared and the length of the crack. For purely brittle solids, this criterion is equivalent to Griffith's theory. In other cases, it provides a theoretical basis for the Irwin-Orowan formula. For purely ductile solids, the theory makes direct contact with the Bilby-Cottrell-Swinden model. The toughness is highest in ductile materials because the shielding dislocations in the plastic zone provide additional resistance to crack growth. This resistance is the force opposing dislocation motion, and the Peach-Koehler force overcomes it. A dislocation-free zone separates the plastic zone from and the tip of the crack. The dislocation-free zone is finite because molecular forces responsible for the cohesion of the surfaces near the crack tip are not negligible. At the point of crack growth, the length of the dislocation-free zone is constant and the shielding dislocations advance in concert. As in Griffith's theory, the crack is in unstable equilibrium. The theory shows that a dimensionless variable controls the elastoplastic behaviour. A relationship for the size of the dislocation-free zone is derived in terms of the macroscopic and microscopic parameters that govern the fracture.     

The deformation and fracture of balloons

Inflation of balloons provides a straightforward way of achieving large biaxial deformations. Previous studies have shown that when a balloon bursts, crack propagation occurs at very high speed – much higher than would be expected from the low strain modulus and elastic wave velocity of the rubber. The present paper is concerned with studies of the deformation and fracture of cylindrical balloons. On inflation, the deformations of such a balloon pass through an unstable region but subsequently increase monotonically with pressure. In this relatively high pressure region, the ratio of the longitudinal and circumferential extension ratios is broadly in accord with expectations from high-strain elasticity theory when the ratio of the corresponding stresses is taken into account. On bursting, crack speeds up to around 300 m/s in this region. It is shown that these speeds are in accord with large increase in incremental moduli for the highly-strained rubber. Marked changes in crack tip profile observed at very high crack speeds are consistent with control of the rate of growth by inertia rather than by the viscoelastic properties of the rubber (as is believed to be the case at lower speeds). Consistent with this, various elastomers having different glass transition temperatures show similar crack growth behaviour in the very high speed region.     

Fatigue Behavior of Composite Sandwich Panels Under Three Point Bending Load

In this paper, the bending fatigue tests of honeycomb sandwich panels are carried out by using an improved three-point bending test fixture, and the S-N curves at different stress ratios are obtained. Through the records of fatigue damage in the experiment, the failure mode of the honeycomb sandwich panels and the source of fatigue damage are determined. At the same time, through the calculation of the shear stress distribution on the honeycomb wall, the reasons for the difference in the failure morphology of the L-direction and W-direction sandwich panels are clarified. Besides, a life prediction method is proposed and its effectiveness in predicting the fatigue life of sandwich panels has been verified.     

双周期裂纹压电材料反平面剪切问题断裂力学分析

研究压电材料双周期裂纹反平面剪切与平面电场作用的问题．运用复变函数方法，获得了该问题严格的闭合解，并由此给出了裂纹尖端应力强度因子和电位移强度因子的精确公式．数值算例显示了裂纹分布特征对材料断裂行为的重要影响．叠间小裂纹能够对主裂纹的应力和电位移场起着屏蔽作用，相反行间小裂纹却起着放大作用，至于钻石形分布裂纹的影响规律则更为复杂．对于某些特殊情形给予了解答并导出一系列有意义的结果。     

考虑疲劳裂纹扩展三维效应的James—Anderson修正方法

James-Anderson方法是一种借助材料疲劳裂纹扩展速率性能来确定三维裂纹应力强度因子的重要实验方法。本文对James-Anderson方法中的疲劳裂纹扩展三维效应进行了分析，并对其进行修正。修正后的James-Anderson方法考虑了疲劳裂纹扩展中由于应力状态而引起的三维效应。研究结果表明：和James-Anderson方法相比，修正后的James-Anderson方法得到的应力强度因子和三维数值方法所得的应力强度因子更吻合。     

任意多椭圆孔多裂纹无限大各向异性板应力强度因子求解的一种新方法

采用各向异性体平面弹性理论中的复势方法,应用保角变换技术,以F aber级数为工具,导出含任意多椭圆孔和裂纹群无限大各向异性板在远场载荷作用下其应力场和位移场的级数解,并在此基础上利用断裂力学方法确定裂纹尖端的应力强度因子,通过算例讨论了材料参数及裂纹、孔的尺寸等对应力强度因子的影响规律,得出了一些有益的结论。数值结果表明本文方法具有计算精度高、收敛速度快、方便快捷等优点,有利于全面系统地研究各参数对结构断裂性能的影响。     

Interaction between a screw dislocation and an elastic elliptical inhomogeneity with interfacial cracks

The elastic interaction between a screw dislocation and an elliptical inhomogeneity with interfacial cracks is studied. The screw dislocation may be located outside or inside the inhomogeneity. An efficient complex variable method for the complex multiply connected region is developed, and the general solutions to the problem are derived. As illustrative examples, solutions in explicit series form for complex potentials are presented in the case of one or two interfacial cracks. Image forces on the dislocation are calculated by using the Peach-Koehler formula. The influence of crack geometries and material properties on the image forces is evaluated and discussed. It is shown that the interfacial crack has a significant effect on the equilibrium position of the dislocation near an elliptical-arc interface. The main results indicate, when the length of the crack goes up to a critical value, the presence of the interfacial crack can change the interaction mechanism between a screw dislocation and an elliptical inclusion. The present solutions can include a number of previously known results as special cases.The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(10272009 and 10472030) and the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(02JJY2014)     

INVESTIGATION OF THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF TWO COLLINEAR ANTI-PLANE SHEAR CRACKS IN A PIEZOELECTRIC LAYER BONDED TO TWO HALF SPACES BY A NEW METOHD

IntroductionItiswell_knownthatpiezoelectricmaterialsproduceanelectricfieldwhendeformedandundergodeformationwhensubjectedtoanelectricfield .Thecouplingnatureofpiezoelectricmaterialshasattractedwideapplicationsinelectro_mechanicalandelectricdevices,suchaselectro_mechanicalactuators,sensorsandstructures.Whensubjectedtomechanicalandelectricalloadsinservice,thesepiezoelectricmaterialscanfailprematurelyduetodefects,e .g .,cracks,holds,etc.arisingduringtheirmanufactureprocess.Therefore,itisofgreatimp…     

正交异性平面内的椭圆孔或裂纹系问题

应用Ｆａｂｅｒ级数展开和各向异性体平面问题复应力函数的方法，对于含有任意个椭圆孔或裂纹的正交异性平面，给出了孔周应力场解或孔附近裂纹应力强度因子解，其特例与前人结果一致．     

Dynamic analysis of interacting coplanar cracks in a half space with a clamped boundary condition using boundary integral equations

The three-dimensional dynamic problem of coplanar circular cracks in an elastic half-space with a clamped boundary condition is considered. The crack faces are subjected to harmonic loads. The problem is reduced to a system of two-dimensional boundary integral equations of the type of the Helmholtz potential for unknown discontinuities in the displacements of the opposite faces of the cracks. The stress intensity factors at the crack contours are obtained and discussed.Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 153–159, January–February, 2005