Thermal stresses around a crack in the nonhomogeneous interfacial layer between two dissimilar elastic half-planes

Thermal stresses around a crack in the interfacial layer between two dissimilar elastic half-planes are solved. The surfaces of the crack are assumed to be insulated. The material constants of the interfacial layer are assumed to vary continuously from those of the upper half-plane to those of the lower half-plane. Uniform heat flows perpendicular the crack. Stress intensity factors are calculated numerically for several thicknesses of the interfacial layer.     

DYNAMIC STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS AROUND TWO CRACKS NEAR AN INTERFACE OF TWO DISSIMILAR ELASTIC HALF－PLANES UNDER IN－PLANE SHEAR IMPACT LOAD

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Dynamic stress intensity factors for two parallel interface cracks between a nonhomogeneous bonding layer and two dissimilar elastic half-planes subject to an impact load

Some composite materials are constructed of two dissimilar half-planes bonded by a nonhomogeneous elastic layer. In the present study, a crack is situated at the interface between the upper half-plane and the bonding layer of such a material, and another crack is located at the interface between the lower half-plane and the bonding layer. The material properties of the bonding layer vary continuously from those of the lower half-plane to those of the upper half-plane. Incoming shock stress waves impinge upon the two interface cracks normal to their surfaces. Fourier transformations were used to reduce the boundary conditions for the cracks to two pairs of dual integral equations in the Laplace domain. To solve these equations, the differences in the crack surface displacements were expanded in a series of functions that are zero-valued outside the cracks. The unknown coefficients in the series were solved using the Schmidt method so as to satisfy the conditions inside the cracks. The stress intensity factors were defined in the Laplace domain and were inverted numerically to physical space. Dynamic stress intensity factors were calculated numerically for selected crack configurations.     

Thermal stresses in a solid containing parallel circular cracks

This paper presents an analysis of the steady-state thermal stresses and displacements in an infinite elastic medium containing two or more parallel coaxial circular cracks. A “perturbation” technique is employed to reduce the problem of finding the temperature and the induced stresses to integral equations of Fredholm type which may be solved by numerical means or iterations. Two types of prescribed thermal conditions are considered. The first is concerned with a uniform flow of heat disturbed by insulated cracks and the second deals with stress-free cracks whose surfaces are exposed to identical amounts of heat. The details of the analysis are illustrated by considering the case of two cracks symmetrically located about the mid plane of the solid. When the cracks are of equal radii, iterative solutions of the governing integral equations are derived and used to determine expressions for the stress-intensity factors (opening and edge-sliding modes), displacements of crack surfaces and other quantities of physical interest which are valid for widely spaced cracks.     

A semi-infinite interfacial crack between two bonded dissimilar elastic strips

Summary  This paper is concerned with a semi-infinite interfacial crack between two bonded dissimilar elastic strips with equal thickness. Solutions for the complex stress intensity factor (SIF) and energy release rate (ERR) are obtained in closed form under in-plane deformations. During the procedure, the mixed boundary-value problem is reduced by means of the conformal mapping technique to the standard Riemann–Hilbert problem. In some limiting cases, the present solutions can cover the results found in literature. Received 21 February 2002; accepted for publication 2 July 2002 X.-F Wu's work was supported in part by the Milton E. Mohr Research Fellowship (2001, 2002) of the Engineering College at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.     

Anti-plane shear of an arbitrary oriented crack in a functionally graded strip bonded with two dissimilar half-planes

An internal crack located within a functionally graded material (FGM) strip bonded with two dissimilar half-planes and under an anti-plane load is considered. The crack is oriented in an arbitrary direction. The material properties of strip are assumed to vary exponentially in the thickness direction and two half-planes are assumed to be isotropic. Governing differential equations are derived and to reduce the difficulty of the problem dealing with solution of a system of singular integral equations Fourier integral transform is employed. Semi closed form solution for the stress distribution in the medium is obtained and mode III stress intensity factor (SIF), at the crack tip is calculated and its validity was verified. Finally, the effects of nonhomogeneous material parameter and crack orientation on the stress intensity factor are studied.     

Screw dislocation interacting with twin interfacial edge cracks between two bonded dissimilar piezoelectric strips

This paper is concerned with the electroelastic potentials and the fracture parameters of a twin-edge-cracked piezoelectric bimaterial strip with a screw dislocation. By means of conformal mapping technique and the known dislocation solution, the antiplane displacement and inplane electric potentials are obtained in closed-form. The intensity factors and the energy release rate are extracted explicitly. In some limiting cases, the present solutions cover those in the literature.     

3D dynamic stress intensity factors around two parallel square cracks in an infinite elastic medium under impact load

Summary  Transient stresses around two parallel cracks in an infinite elastic medium are investigated in the present paper. The shape of the cracks is assumed to be square. Incoming shock stress waves impinge upon the two cracks normal to tzheir surfaces. The mixed boundary value equations with respect to stresses and displacements are reduced to two sets of dual integral equations in the Laplace transform domain using the Fourier transform technique. These equations are solved by expanding the differences in the crack surface displacements in a double series of a function that is equal to zero outside the cracks. Unknown coefficients in the series are calculated using the Schmidt method. Stress intensity factors defined in the Laplace transform domain are inverted numerically to the physical space. Numerical calculations are carried out for transient dynamic stress intensity factors under the assumption that the shape of the upper crack is identical to that of the lower crack. Received 2 February 2000; accepted for publication 10 May 2000     

Closed-form solution for a mode-III interfacial edge crack between two bonded dissimilar elastic strips

A closed-form solution is obtained for the problem of a mode-III interfacial edge crack between two bonded semi-infinite dissimilar elastic strips. A general out-of-plane displacement potential for the crack interacting with a screw dislocation or a line force is constructed using conformal mapping technique and existing dislocation solutions. Based on this displacement potential, the stress intensity factor (SIF, K_III) and the energy release rate (ERR, G_III) for the interfacial edge crack are obtained explicitly. It is shown that, in the limiting special cases, the obtained results coincide with the results available in the literature. The present solution can be used as the Green’s function to analyze interfacial edge cracks subjected to arbitrary anti-plane loadings. As an example, a formula is derived correcting the beam theory used in evaluation of SIF (K_III) and ERR (G_III) of bimaterials in the double cantilever beam (DCB) test configuration.     

Elastic–plastic and elastic anti-plane shear of two parallel cracks

Two infinite interacting parallel cracks in an elastic–plastic and in an elastic body under anti-plane strain (mode III) loading conditions are considered. The body is subjected to vanishing remote loading and the cracks are traction free. Closed-form solution is found for the elastic–plastic problem in terms of elementary functions, where the shape of the plastic boundary is obtained. The complete stress distribution is obtained in an inverse form i.e. physical coordinates are functions of stresses.     

Transient dynamic stresses around two equal circular cavities in an infinite elastic strip

Summary Dynamic stresses in an infinite elastic strip, containing two circular cylindrical cavities, of equal radii, are determined under the assumption of plane strain. The cavities are placed so as to be symmetric with respect to the mid-plane, of the strip. A plane shock stress wave impinges the cavities. The problem is to research the stresses in a strip containing a single cavity. In the Laplace transform domain, boundary conditions at the plane surfaces and those at the circular cavity are satisfied with the Fourier transformation and the Schmidt method, respectively. The hoop stress in the Laplace transform domain is inverted numerically in the physical space.

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Transiente dynamische Spannungskonzentration eines unendlichen, clastischen Streifens mit zwei Kreislöhern

übersicht Die dynamische Spannungskonzentration in einem unendlichen, elastischen Streifen mit zwei gleichen Kreislöchern bei ebener schockartiger Einwirkung von Spannungswellen wird ermittelt. Es wird angenommen, daß die beiden Kreislöcher symmetrisch zur Mittelfläche des Streifens angeordnet sind. Die Randbedingungen der ebenen Flächen werden im Laplace-Blindraum durch Verwendung der Fourier-Transformation erfüllt. Anschließend wird die Schmidt-Methode verwendet, um die Randbedingungen für die Kreislöcher zu erfüllen. Für die im Laplace-Bildraum erhaltenen Umkreisspannungen für die Ränder der Kreislöcher wird die numerisch inverse Laplace Transformation durchgeführt; man erhält dann die Lösung im physikalischen Raum.

     

Permeable cracks between two dissimilar piezoelectric materials

An interfacial crack with electrically permeable surfaces between two dissimilar piezoelectric ceramics under electromechanical loading is investigated. An exact expression for singular stress and electric fields near the tip of a permeable crack between two dissimilar anisotropic piezoelectric media are obtained. The interfacial crack-tip fields are shown to consist of both an inverse square root singularity and a pair of oscillatory singularities. It is found that the singular fields near the permeable interfacial crack tip are uniquely characterized by the real valued stress intensity factors proposed in this paper. The energy release rate is obtained in terms of the stress intensity factors. The exact solution of stress and electric fields for a finite interfacial crack problem is also derived.     

Problems on collinear cracks between bonded dissimilar materials under concentrated loads

Following Ref. [6], this paper deals with the problem on collinear cracks between bonded dissimilar materials under a concentrated force and moment at an arbitrary point. Several typical solutions of complex stress functions in closed form are formulated and the stress intensity factors are given. These solutions include a series of results of previous researchers, and redress some errors in the researches of problems containing semi-infinite cracks^[3],[4].     

Interaction of two offset interfacial cracks in bonded dissimilar media with a functionally graded interlayer: Antiplane deformation

This paper is concerned with the problem of bonded dissimilar, homogeneous media with a functionally graded interlayer, weakened by two offset interfacial cracks under antiplane deformation. Based on the Fourier integral transform method, formulation of the crack problem is reduced to a system of Cauchy-type singular integral equations. The mode III stress intensity factors are defined and evaluated in terms of the solution to the integral equations. Numerical results include the variations of stress intensity factors versus offset distance between the two cracks for various combinations of material and other geometric parameters of the bonded system, addressing the interaction of the two neighboring interfacial cracks spaced apart by the graded interlayer.     

Dynamic behavior of two collinear anti-plane shear cracks in a functionally graded layer bonded to dissimilar half planes

In recent years, the functionally graded materials (FGMs) have been widely applied in extremely high temperate environment. In this paper, the dynamic behavior of two collinear cracks in FGM layer bonded to dissimilar half planes under anti-plane shear waves is studied by the Schmidt method. By using the Fourier transform technique, the present problem can be solved with a dual integral equation. These equations are solved using the Schmidt method. The present method is used to illustrate the fundamental behavior of the interacting cracks in FGMs under dynamic loading. Furthermore, the effects of the geometry of the interacting cracks, the shear stress wave velocity of the materials and the frequency of the incident wave on the Dynamic Stress Intensity Factor are investigated.     

Thermal stresses in cylindrical Cosserat elastic shells

We consider the problem of thermal stresses in cylindrical elastic shells, modelled as Cosserat surfaces. In the theory of Cosserat shells, the thermal effects are described generally by means of two temperature fields. The problem consists in finding the equilibrium of the shell under the action of a given temperature distribution. The temperature fields are assumed to be general polynomial functions in the axial coordinate, whose coefficients depend on the circumferential coordinate.