Interface crack with a contact zone in an isotropic bimaterial under thermomechanical loading

A plane problem for a thermally insulated interface crack with a contact zone in an isotropic bimaterial under tension–shear mechanical loading and a temperature flux is considered. The expressions for the stresses and the electrical flux as well as for the derivatives of the displacement and the temperature jumps at the material interfaces via sectionally holomorphic mechanical and thermal potential functions are given. After the solution of the thermal problem the inhomogeneous combined Dirichlet–Riemann boundary value problem is formulated and solved exactly. The stresses at the interface and the stress intensity factors at the singular points are presented in a clear analytical form. Special attention is devoted to the case of a small contact zone when the stress intensity factors can be presented in form similar to the associated presentation for an “open” crack model. A transcendental equation and an asymptotic analytic formula for the determination of the real contact zone length are derived. It is shown that for a certain bimaterial this length as well as the correspondent stress intensity factor are defined by a single parameter which depends on the normal-shear loading and the heat flux.     

Kirchhoff plates with viscous boundary dissipation

In this paper, we confine our attention to Kirchhoff thin plates in presence of boundary viscoelastic dissipative mechanisms, in order to investigate the well-posedness and the asymptotic behavior within the minimal state approach, following the guidelines proposed in Deseri et al. (Arch Rational Mech Anal 181:43–96, 2006) [see also Fabrizio et al. (Arch Rational Mech Anal 198:189–232, 2010)].     

Semi-infinite moving crack between two bonded dissimilar isotropic strips

Meccanica - The problem of a moving semi-infinite crack between two bonded dissimilar isotropic strips has been considered. The mixed boundary value problem has been reduced to a standard...     

Interface crack between piezoelectric and elastic strips

Summary An interface crack between piezoelectric and elastic strips is analyzed using the theory of linear piezoelectricity. The combined out-of-plane mechanical and in-plane electrical loads are applied to the layered strip. Fourier transforms are used to reduce the problem to a pair of dual integral equations, which is then expressed in terms of a Fredholm integral equation of the second kind. The stress intensity factor is determined, and numerical analysis is performed and discussed. Received 22 September 1999; accepted for publication 3 May 2000     

Boundary element analysis of anisotropic Kirchhoff plates

In this paper, the radial integration method is used to obtain a boundary element formulation without any domain integral for general anisotropic plate bending problems. Two integral equations are used and the unknown variables are assumed to be constant along each boundary element. The domain integral which arises from a transversely applied load is exactly transformed into a boundary integral by a radial integration technique. Uniformly and linearly distributed loads are considered. Several computational examples concerning orthotropic and general anisotropic plate bending problems are presented. The results show good agreement with analytical and finite element results available in the literature.     

Interface crack between two shear deformable elastic layers

An improved method based on the first-order shear deformable plate theory is developed to calculate the energy release rate and stress intensity factor for a crack at the interface of a bi-layer structure. By modeling the uncracked region of the structure as two separate Reissner-Mindlin plates bonded perfectly along the interface, this method is able not only to take into account the shear deformation in the cracked region, but also to capture the shear deformation in the uncracked region of the structure. A closed form solution of energy release rate and mode decomposition at the interface crack is obtained for a general loading condition, and it indicates that the energy release rate and stress intensity factor are determined by two independent loading parameters. Compared to the approach based on the classical plate theory, the proposed method provides a more accurate prediction of energy release rate as well as mode decomposition. The computational procedures introduced are relatively straightforward, and the closed form solution can be used to predict crack growth along the layered structures.     

Non-linear vibrations of transversely isotropic rectangular'' plates

The large amplitude free flexural vibration of transversely isotropic rectangular plate, incorporating the effects of transverse shear and rotatory inertia, is studied using the von Karman field equations. A mode shape, consisting of three generalised-coordinates together with the Galerkin technique, results in a system of three non-linear simultaneous ordinary differential equations which govern the motion of the plate. These equations are integrated using a fourth-order Runge-Kutta method to obtain the period for each amplitude of vibration. The non-linear period vs amplitude behaviour is of the hardening type and it is also found that transverse shear and rotary inertia effects increase the period and that this increase is quite significant even for thin transversely isotropic plates. The results are compared with earlier results which were based on a one-term or one generalised coordinate solution and using the Berger approximation or the von Karman field equations.     

Interaction between annular crack and rigid disc inclusion in a transversely isotropic solid

An analytical approach has been presented to analyze the asymmetric and axisymmetric interactions between an annular crack and a rigid disc inclusion embedded in a transversely isotropic full-space. With the aid of a method of potential functions, Hankel and Abel transforms, the solution of the problems is reduced to a system of Fredholm integral equations, which are solved by using a numerical method. In each case, the stiffness of the disc inclusion and the stress intensity factor at the tips of the annular crack for different degrees of material anisotropy and different ratios of the inner and outer radius of the crack are illustrated graphically. Several limiting cases such as penny-shaped crack and external crack along with some exact solutions are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of the method.     

Penny-shaped crack in transversely isotropic piezoelectric materials

Using a method of potential functions introduced successively to integrate the field equations of three-dimensional problems for transversely isotropic piezoelectric materials, we obtain the so-called general solution in which the displacement components and electric potential functions are represented by a singular function satisfying some special partial differential equations of 6th order. In order to analyse the mechanical-electric coupling behaviour of penny-shaped crack for above materials, another form of the general solution is obtained under cylindrical coordinate system by introducing three quasi-harmonic functions into the general equations obtained above. It is shown that both the two forms of the general solutions are complete. Furthermore, the mechanical-electric coupling behaviour of penny-shaped crack in transversely isotropic piezoelectric media is analysed under axisymmetric tensile loading case, and the crack-tip stress field and electric displacement field are obtained. The results show that the stress and the electric displacement components near the crack tip have (r ^−1/2) singularity. The project supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, China     

Stress state of isotropic layer with crack

The stress state of an elastic isotropic layer with a finite through crack is considered. At the boundary planes of the layer, the normal component of the displacement vector and the tangential stress are zero. The crack surface is subject to normal forces that vary arbitrarily. On the basis of three-dimensional elasticity theory, a method of solving the problem is proposed. Numerical results characterizing the behavior of the normal-stress intensity coefficient are obtained. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 43–51, January, 1997.     

基于小波微分求积法的薄板弯曲分析

利用小波微分求积法(WDQM)对任意荷载作用下的薄板弯曲问题进行了求解分析。数值算例表明,小波微分求积法与一般的DQ法相比具有很好的适用性,特别是薄板受集中荷载或不连续分布荷载作用时,由于小波基函数的紧支撑特性与其对突变信号良好的描述能力,WDQ法的精度明显优于一般的DQ法,具有良好的应用前景。     

Kirchhoff and thomson-tait transformations in the classical theory of plates

The transformation of the torque into the transverse force is considered; this transformation is traditional in the educational literature [1] and was proposed by Kirchhoff [2] and Thomson and Tait [3] to match the order of the differential equation of the classical theory of plates with the number of boundary conditions. It is shown that this transformation is not universal and its mathematical and physical justification depends on the conditions of the plate fixation and loading. It is shown that this justification is absent for the most widely used problems of bending of a rectangular plate freely supported and fixed on the contour.     

Bending of multilayer transversally isotropic plates and beams

Ivano-Frankovskii Sector, IPPMM, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 55–62, May, 1994.     

Deflection of sandwich plates in terms of corresponding Kirchhoff plate solutions

Summary This study presents exact relationships between the deflections of isotropic sandwich plates and their corresponding Kirchhoff plates. The governing equilibrium equations for the sandwich plates are derived on the basis of the Reissner-Mindlin shear deformation plate theory. The considered plates are either (i) simply supported, of general polygonal shape and under any transverse loading condition or (ii) simply supported and clamped circular plates under axisymmetric loading. As the relationships are exact under the assumptions used in the plate theories, one may obtain exact deflection solutions of sandwich plates if the Kirchhoff plate solutions are exact. The relationships should also be useful for the development of approximate formulas for plates with other shapes, boundary and loading conditions, and may serve to check numerical deflection values computed from sandwich plate analysis software.     

弹性薄板的广义多维微分求积分析方法

多维微分求积DC(differential cubature)法是近年迅速发展起来的一种处理多维微分方程的高精度数值方法。本文围绕多元函数插值适定性这一基本问题,探讨了实现DC法时插值结点组和插值空间应满足的条件,研究了离散结点组选择及其构造适定试函数的方法。提出了一种沿各坐标方向可以布置不同数量结点的广义交错网格DC方法,并给出了确定相应的插值空间及其选择试函数的具体方案。通过弹性薄板变形分析研究了广义交错网格DC法解决实际结构力学问题的可靠性及其潜力。研究结果表明,广义交错网格DC法较传统的交错网格DC格式具有更强的适用性和灵活性,采用数量少得多的离散结点即可达到传统交错网格DC法相同的数值精度,表现出精度高和计算工作量小的优点。