The Anti-plane Dynamic Fracture Analysis of Functionally Graded Materials with Arbitrary Spatial Variations of Material Properties

Anti-plane dynamic fracture analysis is presented for functionally graded materials (FGM) with arbitrary spatial variations of material properties. The FGM with the material properties varying continuously in an arbitrary manner is modeled as a multi-layered medium with the elastic modulus and mass density varying linearly in each sub-layer and continuous at the interfaces between two adjacent sub-layers. With this linearly inhomogeneous multi-layered model, the problem of a crack in a graded interfacial zone bonded to two homogeneous half-spaces or in a coating bonded to a homogeneous half-space subjected to the anti-plane shear impact load is investigated. Laplace and Fourier transforms and transfer matrix are applied to reduce the associated mixed boundary value problem to a Cauchy singular integral equation which is solved numerically in the Laplace transformed domain. The dynamic stress intensity factors (DSIF) are obtained by using the numerical technique of Laplace inversion.     

An interaction energy integral method for nonhomogeneous materials with interfaces under thermal loading

A plane crack problem of nonhomogeneous materials with interfaces subjected to static thermal loading is investigated. A modified interaction energy integral method (IEIM) is developed to obtain the mixed-mode thermal stress intensity factors (TSIFs). Compared with the previous IEIM, the original point of this paper is: the domain-independence of the modified IEIM still stands in nonhomogeneous materials with interfaces under thermal loading. Therefore, the modified IEIM can still be applied to obtain the TSIFs of nonhomogeneous material even if the integral domain includes interfaces. The modified IEIM is combined with the extended finite element method (XFEM) to solve several thermal fracture problems of nonhomogeneous materials. Good agreement can be obtained compared with the analytic solutions and the domain-independence of the IEIM is verified. Therefore, the present method is effective to study the TSIFs of nonhomogeneous materials even when the materials contain interfaces. The influence of the discontinuity of the material properties (thermal expansion coefficient, thermal conductivity and Young’s modulus) on the TSIFs is investigated. The results show that the discontinuity of both thermal expansion coefficient and Young’s modulus affects the TSIFs greatly, while the discontinuity of thermal conductivity does not arouse obvious change of the TSIFs.     

Elastodynamic analysis of a crack at an arbitrary angle to the graded interfacial zone in bonded half-planes under antiplane shear impact

A solution is provided for the elastodynamic problem of a crack at an arbitrary angle to the graded interfacial zone in bonded media under the action of antiplane shear impact. The interfacial zone is modeled by a nonhomogeneous interlayer with the spatially varying shear modulus and mass density in terms of power functions between the two dissimilar, homogeneous half-planes. Based on the use of Laplace and Fourier integral transforms and the coordinate transformations of basic field variables, formulation of the transient crack problem is reduced to solving a Cauchy-type singular integral equation in the Laplace transform domain. The crack-tip response in the physical domain is recovered via the inverse Laplace transform and the values of dynamic mode III stress intensity factors are obtained as a function of time. A comprehensive parametric study is then presented of the effects of crack obliquity on the overshoot behavior of the transient crack-tip response, by plotting the peak values of the dynamic stress intensity factors versus the crack orientation angle for various material and geometric combinations of the bonded system.     

The transient fracture behavior for a functionally graded layered structure subjected to an in-plane impact load

The transient fracture behavior of a functionally graded layered structure subjected to an in-plane impact load is investigated. The studied structure is composed of two homogeneous layers and a functionally graded interlayer with a crack perpendicular to the boundaries. The impact load is applied on the face of the crack. Fourier transform and Laplace transform methods are used to formulate the present problem in terms of a singular integral equation in Laplace transform domain. Considering variations of parameters such as the nonhomogeneity constant, the thickness ratio and the crack length, the dynamic stress intensity factors (DSIFs) in time domain are studied and some meaningful conclusions are obtained.The project supported by the National Science Foundation for Excellent Young Investigators (10325208), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10432030) and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2004036018)The English text was polished by Ron Marshall.     

Thermal stress intensity factors for an interface crack in a functionally graded layered structures

The fracture behavior of a functionally graded layered structure (FGLS) with an interface crack under thermal loading is investigated. Considering new boundary conditions, it is assumed that interface crack is partly insulated, and the temperature drop across the crack surfaces is the result of the thermal resistance due to the heat conduction through the crack region. The problem is formulated in terms of a system of singular integral equations. Numerical results are presented to show the influence of the material nonhomogeneity parameters and the dimensionless thermal resistance on the thermal stress intensity factors (TSIFs).     

A crack in a piezoelectric layer bonded to a dissimilar elastic layer under transient load

Summary  A piezoelectric layer bonded to the surface of an elastic structure is considered. The piezoelectric and the elastic layers are infinite along the x-axis and have finite thickness in the y-direction. The polarization direction of the piezoelectric material is along the y-axis. By means of the method of singular integral equations, the solution in a Laplace transform plane is demonstrated. Laplace inversion yields the results in the time domain. Numerical values of the crack tip fields under in-plane transient electromechanical loading are obtained. The influence of layers thickness on stress and electric displacement intensity factors is investigated. Received 16 March 2000; accepted for publication 16 August 2000     

Nonstationary dynamic problems of nonlinear viscoelasticity

Dynamic problems describing transient wave processes in linearly viscoelastic solids are considered for bounded domains of perturbation propagation and bounded creep of the material. The integral Laplace transform with respect to time is applied to the original problem, and several statements about the properties of Laplace transforms simplifying the construction of the original functions are stated. Relations establishing a correspondence between relaxation kernels that belong to various function classes but nevertheless affect the transient processes in a similar way are proposed. The results justifying these relations in a certain range of the input data are presented.     

THERMAL FRACTURE OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED PLATE WITH PARALLEL SURFACE CRACKS

This work examines the fracture behavior of a functionally graded material （FGM） plate containing parallel surface cracks with alternating lengths subjected to a thermal shock. The thermal stress intensity factors （TSIFs） at the tips of long and short cracks are calculated using a singular integral equation technique. The critical thermal shock △Tc that causes crack initiation is calculated using a stress intensity factor criterion. Numerical examples of TSIFs and △Tc for an Al2O3/Si3N4 FGM plate are presented to illustrate the effects of thermal property gradation, crack spacing and crack length ratio on the TSIFs and △Tc. It is found that for a given crack length ratio, the TSIFs at the tips of both long and short cracks can be reduced significantly and △Tc can be enhanced by introducing appropriate material gradation. The TSIFs also decrease dramatically with a decrease in crack spacing. The TSIF at the tips of short cracks may be higher than that for the long cracks under certain crack geometry conditions. Hence, the short cracks instead of long cracks may first start to grow under the thermal shock loading.     

Thermal fracture analysis of nonhomogeneous piezoelectric materials using an interaction energy integral method

This paper presents a modified interaction energy integral method to analyze the thermal stress intensity factors (TSIFs) and electric displacement intensity factor (EDIF) in nonhomogeneous piezoelectric materials under thermal loading. This modified method is demonstrated to be domain-independent, even when the nonhomogeneous piezoelectric materials contain interfaces with thermo-electro-mechanical properties. As a result, the method is shown to be convenient for determining the TSIFs and EDIF in nonhomogeneous piezoelectric materials with interfaces. Several examples are shown, and they successfully verify the domain-independence of the present interaction energy integral. The study results also show that the mismatch of material properties can significantly influence the TSIFs and EDIF, particularly when the crack tip is close to the interface. Crack angles and temperature boundary conditions are also shown to significantly influence the TSIFs and EDIF.     

Dynamic 3D axisymmetric problems in continuously non-homogeneous piezoelectric solids

The meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method is used to analyze transient dynamic problems in 3D axisymmetric piezoelectric solids with continuously inhomogeneous material properties. Both mechanical and thermal loads are considered here. A 3D axisymmetric body is created by rotation of a cross section around an axis of symmetry. Axial symmetry of geometry and boundary conditions reduces the original 3D boundary value problem into a 2D problem. The cross section is covered by small circular sub-domains surrounding nodes randomly spread over the analyzed domain. A unit step function is chosen as test function, in order to derive local integral equations on the boundaries of the chosen sub-domains, called local boundary integral equations (LBIE). These integral formulations are either based on the Laplace transform technique or the time-difference approach. The local integral equations are non-singular and take a very simple form, despite of inhomogeneous and anisotropic material behaviour across the analyzed structure. Spatial variation of all physical fields (or of their Laplace transforms) at discrete time instants are approximated on the local boundary and in the interior of the sub-domain by means of the moving least-squares (MLS) method. The Stehfest algorithm is applied for the numerical Laplace inversion, in order to retrieve the time-dependent solutions.     

A fractional differential constitutive model for dynamic stress intensity factors of an anti-plane crack in viscoelastic materials

Fractional differential constitutive relationships are introduced to depict the history of dynamic stress inten- sity factors （DSIFs） for a semi-infinite crack in infinite viscoelastic material subjected to anti-plane shear impact load. The basic equations which govern the anti-plane deformation behavior are converted to a fractional wave-like equation. By utilizing Laplace and Fourier integral transforms, the fractional wave-like equation is cast into an ordinary differential equation （ODE）. The unknown function in the solution of ODE is obtained by applying Fourier transform directly to the boundary conditions of fractional wave-like equation in Laplace domain instead of solving dual integral equations. Analytical solutions of DSIFs in Laplace domain are derived by Wiener-Hopf technique and the numerical solutions of DSIFs in time domain are obtained by Talbot algorithm. The effects of four parameters α, β, b1, b2 of the fractional dif- ferential constitutive model on DSIFs are discussed. The numerical results show that the present fractional differential constitutive model can well describe the behavior of DSIFs of anti-plane fracture in viscoelastic materials, and the model is also compatible with solutions of DSIFs of anti-plane fracture in elastic materials.     

Thermal fracture of a functionally graded/homogeneous bimaterial with system of cracks

The thermal fracture of a bimaterial consisting of a homogeneous material and a functionally graded material (FGM) with a system of internal cracks and an interface crack is investigated. The bimaterial is subjected to a heat flux. The thermal properties of FGM are assumed to be continues functions of the thickness coordinate, while the elastic properties are constants. The method of the solution is based on the singular integral equations. For a special case where the interface crack is much larger than the internal cracks in the FGM the asymptotic analytical solution of the problem is obtained as series in a small parameter (the ratio between sizes of the internal and interface crack) and the thermal stress intensity factors (TSIFs) are derived as functions of geometry of the problem and material characteristics. A parametric analysis of the effects of the location and orientation of the cracks and of the inhomogeneity parameter of FGM’s thermal conductivity on the TSIFs is performed. The results are applicable to such kinds FGMs as ceramic/ceramic FGMs, e.g., TiC/SiC, MoSi₂/Al₂O₃ and MoSi₂/SiC, and also some ceramic/metal FGMs.     

Fracture analysis of a weak-discontinuous interface in a symmetrical functionally gradient composite strip loaded by anti-plane impact

The anti-plane impact fracture analysis was performed for a weak-discontinuous interface in a symmetrical functionally gradient composite strip. A new bi-parameter exponential function was introduced to simulate the continuous variation of material properties. Using Laplace and Fourier integral transforms, we reduced the problem to a dual integral equation and obtained asymptotic analytical solution of crack-tip stress field. Based on the numerical solution of the second kind of Fredholm integral equation transformed from the dual integral equation, the effects of the two non-homogeneity parameters on DSIF were discussed. It was indicated that the relative stiffness of the interface and the general stiffness of the whole structure are two important factors affecting the impact fracture behavior of the weak-discontinuous interface. The greater the relative stiffness of the interface is, the higher the value of the dynamic stress intensity factor will be. The greater the general stiffness of the whole structure is, the shorter the time for DSIF to arrive at the peak value and then to stabilize to the steady one. If the general stiffness of the whole structure is great enough, there will be an oscillation between the peak and steady values of DSIF.     

Thermal stresses factors of orthotropic graded layers with a finite line bond

In the paper, the problem of a finite line bond between two orthotropic functionally graded strips under thermal loading is considered. Considering some new boundary conditions, it is assumed that the temperature drop across the finite line bond is the result of the thermal conductivity index controlling heat conduction through the bond region. Using Fourier transforms technique, the therm-elastic mixed boundary value problems are reduced to a system of singular integral equations which can be solved approximately by applying the Chebyshev polynomials. The numerical results for the temperature and displacement field as well as the thermal stress intensity factors (TSIFs) are presented. The influence of the thickness of the layers and the thermo-elastic nonhomogeneity parameters on the temperature distribution and the TSIFs is discussed in detail. These results can be expected to be used for the purpose of gaining better understanding of the thermo-mechanical behavior of layered structures.     

The Flow Analysis of Viscoelastic Fluid with Fractional Order Derivative in Horizontal Well

The fractional calculus approach is introduced into the seepage mechanics. A three-dimensional relaxation model of viscoelastic fluid is built. The models based on four boundary conditions of exact solution in Laplace space for some unsteady flows in an infinite reservoir is obtained by using the Laplace transform and Fourier sine and cosine integral transform. The pressure transient behavior of non-Newtonian viscoelastic fluid is studied by using Stehfest method of the numerical Laplace transform inversion and Gauss–Laguerre numerical integral formulae. The viscoelastic fluid is very sensitive to the order of the fractional derivative. The change rules of pressure are discussed when the parameters of the models change. The plots of type pressure curves are given, and the results can be provided to theoretical basis and well-test method for oil field.     

Effects of electric/magnetic impact on the transient fracture of interface crack in piezoelectric-piezomagnetic sandwich structure: anti-plane case

Due to the incompatibility of the interlaminar deformations,the interface debonding or cracking usually happens in a layered magnetoelectric(ME)structure under an applied load.In this paper,the transient responses of the anti-plane interface cracks in piezoelectric(PE)-piezomagnetic(PM)sandwich structures are studied by the standard methods of the integral transform and singular integral equation.Discussion on the numerical examples indicates that the PE-PM-PE structure under electric impact is more likely to fracture than the PM-PE-PM structure under a magnetic impact.The dynamic stress intensity factors(DSIFs)are more sensitive to the variation of the active layer thickness.The effects of the material constants on the DSIFs are dependent on the roles played by PE and PM media during the deformation process.     

Dynamic analysis of a cracked magnetoelectroelastic medium under antiplane mechanical and inplane electric and magnetic impacts

The transient analysis of a magnetoelectroelastic medium containing a crack is made under antiplane mechanical and inplane electric and magnetic impacts. The crack is assumed to penetrate through the solid along the poling direction. By using the Fourier and Laplace transforms, the associated mixed boundary value problem is reduced to a Fredholm integral equation of the second kind, which is solved numerically. By means of a numerical inversion of the Laplace transform, dynamic field intensity factors are obtained in the time domain. Numerical results are presented graphically to show the effects of the material properties and applied electric and magnetic impacts on the dynamic intensity factors of COD and stress, and dynamic energy density factors. The results indicate that except for the intensity factors of electric displacement and magnetic induction, other field intensity factors exhibit apparent transient feature. Moreover, they depend strongly on mechanical input as well as electric and magnetic impacts.     

Transient response of a piezoelectric ceramic strip with an eccentric crack under electromechanical impacts

The transient response of a piezoelectric strip with an eccentric crack normal to the strip boundaries under applied electromechanical impacts is considered. By using the Laplace transform, the mixed initial-boundary-value problem is reduced to triple series equations, then to a singular integral equation of the first kind by introducing an auxiliary function. The Lobatto–Chebyshev collocation technique is adopted to solve numerically the resulting singular integral equation. Dynamic field intensity factors and energy release rate are obtained for both a permeable crack and an impermeable crack. The effects of the crack position and the material properties on the dynamic stress intensity factor are examined and numerical results are presented graphically.     

Addressing the Influence of a Heterogeneous Matrix on Well Performance in Fractured Rocks

We address the influences of heterogeneity and complex geology of the matrix of fractured rocks on transient flow. Fractional constitutive flux laws reflect the stochastic framework that we consider. We model transient diffusion in both the matrix and fracture systems in terms of a continuous time random walk. Our procedure is particularly suited to address a complex geology that may exist on a number of scales and which may include dead ends and discontinuities. The performance of a horizontal well produced through arbitrarily located, multiple hydraulic fractures with distinct properties (length, width, permeability) forms the basis for our thesis. The pressure distribution in a rectangular drainage region where the well may be placed arbitrarily is expressed in terms of the Laplace transformation. The required solutions are obtained numerically. The focus of our work is on long-term behaviors for production at a constant pressure. In addition to numerical solutions, asymptotic results that provide information on the structure of the solutions are presented. Agreement between the asymptotic and numerical solutions is excellent. We show that long-term responses are governed by two distinct, two-parameter Mittag–Leffler functions and are an outcome of the complexities we desire to model in both the matrix and fracture systems. As a consequence, power-law behaviors that reflect the heterogeneity inherent in the system define long-time expectations. We show that the new solutions we derive do reduce to those of classical diffusion; that is, results corresponding to classical diffusion are a subset of the new results obtained here. Our results are particularly suited to model transient flow in shale reservoirs.     

功能梯度材料裂纹尖端动态应力场

研究受反平面剪切作用的功能梯度材料动态裂纹问题,通过积分变换-对偶积分方程方法推出了裂纹尖端动态应力场,时间域内的动态应力强度因子由Laplace数值反演获得,研究结果表明功能梯度材料的梯度越大,相应的裂纹问题的动态应力强度因子值越低。