Differentiation of the energy functional in the equilibrium problem for a Timoshenko plate containing a crack

The variational formulation of the equilibrium problem for a Timoshenko plate containing a vertical plane crack is considered. Nonpenetration conditions in the form of inequalities (Signorini type conditions) are specified on the crack faces. The behavior of the solution and the corresponding energy functional of the plate with variation in the crack length is analyzed. A formula for the derivative of the energy functional along the crack length is obtained. The solutions are found to continuously depend on the parameter characterizing the crack length.     

Energy functional derivative with respect to the length of a curvilinear oblique cut in the equilibrium problem for a Timoshenko plate

This paper describes the dependence of the solution of the equilibrium problem for a Timoshenko plate and the total energy functional of the plate on the perturbation of an oblique crack. The nonlinearity of the problem is caused by the boundary conditions in the form of inequalities (conditions such as the Signorini conditions), which describe mutual nonpenetration of the opposite crack faces. The continuous dependence of the solution of the problem on the perturbation of the crack length is established. A formula for the energy functional derivative of the perturbation of the crack length is obtained.     

Interaction of cracks with bonds between their faces in an isotropic medium reinforced by a regular system of stringers

A problem of an elastic isotropic medium with a system of foreign (transverse with respect to crack alignment) rectilinear inclusions is considered. The medium is assumed to be attenuated by a periodic system of rectilinear cracks with zones where the crack faces interact with each other. These zones are assumed to be adjacent to the crack tips, and their sizes can be commensurable with the crack size. Interaction between the crack faces in the tip zone is modeled by introducing bonds (adhesion forces) between the cracks with a specified strain diagram. The boundary-value problem of the equilibrium of a periodic system of cracks with bonds between their faces under the action of external tensile loads and forces in the bonds is reduced to a nonlinear singular integrodifferential equation with a kernel of the Cauchy kernel type. The condition of critical equilibrium of the cracks with the tip zones is formulated with allowance for the criterion of critical tension of the bonds. A case of a stress state of the medium containing zones where the crack faces interact with each other is considered.     

Retardation of a crack with connections between the faces using an induced thermoelastic stress field

This paper considers local temperature variations near the tip of a crack in the presence of regions in which the crack faces interact. It is assumed that these regions are adjacent to the crack tip and are comparable in size to the crack size. The problem of local temperature variations consists of delay or retardation of crack growth. For a crack with connections between the crack faces subjected to external tensile loads, an induced thermoelastic stress field, and the stresses at the connections preventing crack opening, the boundary-value problem of the equilibrium of the crack reduces to a system of nonlinear singular integrodifferential equations with a Cauchy kernel. The normal and tangential stresses at the connections are found by solving this system of equations. The stress intensity factors are calculated. The energy characteristics of cracks with tip regions are considered. The limiting equilibrium condition for cracks with tip regions is formulated using the criterion of limiting stretching of the connections.Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 133–143, January–February, 2005     

Analysis of the derivative of the energy functional with respect to the length of a curvilinear crack in an elastic body with a possible crack-edge contact

A homogeneous two-dimensional body with a crack of variable length is considered. At the crack edges, conditions are formulated in the form of inequalities that describe mutual nonpenetration of the edges. The derivative of the elastic-energy functional with respect to the length of the curvilinear crack is analyzed. It is shown that the derivative is independent of the crack path, provided that the curve along which the crack propagates is reasonably smooth. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 138–145, September–October, 2007.     

Equilibrium problem for a Timoshenko plate with an oblique crack

The condition of mutual nonpenetration of the crack faces is proposed for a Timoshenko plate with an oblique crack, whose initial state is defined by a surface the normal to which makes a small angle with the middle plane. Unique solvability of the variational problem of plate equilibrium with the nonpenetration conditions for the crack faces specified on the curve describing the crack is proved. A differential formulation of the problem equivalent to the original formulation for sufficiently smooth solutions is proposed. For the one-dimensional case (beam with a cut), an analytical solution is obtained, and the cases of longitudinal tension and compression are examined.     

Shape and topology sensitivity analysis for cracks in elastic bodies on boundaries of rigid inclusions

We consider an elastic body with a rigid inclusion and a crack located at the boundary of the inclusion. It is assumed that nonpenetration conditions are imposed at the crack faces which do not allow the opposite crack faces to penetrate each other. We analyze the variational formulation of the problem and provide shape and topology sensitivity analysis of the solution in two and three spatial dimensions. The differentiability of the energy with respect to the crack length, for the crack located at the boundary of rigid inclusion, is established.     

Crack emanating from an open notch

This paper is concerned with the plane elastostatic problem of a crack emanating from an open notch where it is assumed that the crack is directed parallel to one side of the notch. The problem is reduced to two simultaneous Fredholm integral equations which are then solved numerically for three loading conditions of the crack faces. In particular, it is shown that the crack tip intensity factors are almost independent of crack length if the singular stress field associated with the uncracked notch is used as the loading of the crack faces.     

Timoshenko inclusions in elastic bodies crossing an external boundary at zero angle

The paper concerns an analysis of equilibrium problems for 2D elastic bodies with a thin Timoshenko inclusion crossing an external boundary at zero angle. The inclusion is assumed to be delaminated, thus forming a crack between the inclusion and the body. We consider elastic inclusions as well as rigid inclusions. To prevent a mutual penetration between the crack faces, inequality type boundary conditions are imposed at the crack faces.Theorems of existence and uniqueness are established. Passages to limits are investigated as a rigidity parameter of the elastic inclusion going to infinity.     

The singular elastostatic field due to a crack in rubberlike materials

Within the framework of finite-strain elastostatics an asymptotic analysis is carried out in order to calculate the singular field near the crack tip in a slab under conditions of plane deformation. A class of Ogden-Ball hyperelastic rubberlike materials and general loading conditions ensuring vanishing tractions on the crack faces near the crack tip are considered. It is shown that the singular deformation field near the crack tip can be specified by applying a rigid body rotation with a subsequent parallel translation to a so-called canonical field. The adjective canonical is adopted here to denote the field with symmetrically opening crack faces, just resembling the displacement field of the symmetric mode in linear elastic fracture mechanics. No analogy with the antisymmetric mode is possible, and the crack equilibrium criterion requires only one stress intensity factor to be determined.     

On a moving interface crack with a contact zone in a piezoelectric bimaterial

An inplane problem for a crack moving with constant subsonic speed along the interface of two piezoelectric materials is considered. A mechanically frictionless and electrically permeable contact zone is assumed at the right crack tip whilst for the open part of the crack both electrically permeable and electrically insulated conditions are considered. In the first case a moving concentrated loading is prescribed at the crack faces and in the second case an additional electrical charge at the crack faces is prescribed as well. The main attention is devoted to electrically permeable crack faces. Introducing a moving coordinate system at the leading crack tip the corresponding inhomogeneous combined Dirichlet–Riemann problem is formulated and solved exactly for this case. All electromechanical characteristics at the interface are presented in a closed form for arbitrary contact zone lengths, and further, the transcendental equation for the determination of the real contact zone length is derived. As a particular case of the obtained solution a semi-infinite crack with a contact zone is considered. The numerical analysis performed for a certain piezoelectric bimaterial showed an essential increase of the contact zone length and the associated stress intensity factor especially for the near-critical speed region. Similar investigations have been performed for an electrically insulated crack and the same behavior of the above mentioned parameters is observed.     

Modeling of crack nucleation in a variable-thickness band under nonuniform heating

A mathematical model of crack nucleation in a variable-thickness band (rod) under nonuniform heating is constructed. As the band (rod) is thermally loaded, pre-fracture zones are assumed to appear; these zones are modeled as regions with attenuated bonds between material particles. The presence of bonds between the pre-fracture zone faces is modeled by adhesion forces applied to the pre-fracture zone surface. Solving the problem of equilibrium of an isotropic variable-thickness band with a prefracture zone is reduced to solving a nonlinear singular integrodifferential equation with a Cauchy-type kernel, which establishes the relation between the adhesion forces in the crack-nucleation zone and the distance between the crack faces. The condition of crack nucleation in a variable-thickness band is formulated with allowance for the criterion of ultimate tension of bonds in the material.     

An electrically conducting interface crack with a contact zone in a piezoelectric bimaterial

A plane problem for an electrically conducting interface crack in a piezoelectric bimaterial is studied. The bimaterial is polarized in the direction orthogonal to the crack faces and loaded by remote tension and shear forces and an electrical field parallel to the crack faces. All fields are assumed to be independent of the coordinate co-directed with the crack front. Using special presentations of electromechanical quantities via sectionally-analytic functions, a combined Dirichlet–Riemann and Hilbert boundary value problem is formulated and solved analytically. Explicit analytical expressions for the characteristic mechanical and electrical parameters are derived. Also, a contact zone solution is obtained as a particular case. For the determination of the contact zone length, a simple transcendental equation is derived. Stress and electric field intensity factors and, also, the contact zone length are found for various material combinations and different loadings. A significant influence of the electric field on the contact zone length, stress and electric field intensity factors is observed. Electrically permeable conditions in the crack region are considered as well and matching of different crack models has been performed.     

Closed crack imaging using time reversal method based on fundamental and second harmonic scattering

A recent variant of time reversal imaging is employed for reconstructing images of a closed crack, based on both the fundamental and the second harmonic components of the longitudinal scattered field due to an incident longitudinal wave. The scattered field data are generated by a finite element model that includes unilateral contact with Coulomb friction between the crack faces to account for the Contact Acoustic Nonlinearity. The closure state of the crack is controlled by specifying a pre-stress between the crack faces. The knowledge of the scattered field at the fundamental (incident) frequency and the second harmonic frequency for multiple incident angles provides the required inputs for the imaging algorithm. It is shown that the image reconstructed from the fundamental harmonic closely matches the image that is obtained from scattering data in the absence of contact, although contact between the crack faces reduces the amplitude of the scattered field in the former case. The fundamental harmonic image is shown to provide very accurate estimates of crack length for low to moderate levels of pre-stress. The second harmonic image is also shown to provide acceptable estimates of crack length and the image is shown to correlate with the source location of second harmonic along the crack, which becomes increasingly localized near the crack tips for decreasing levels of pre-stress. The influence of the number of sensors on the image quality is also discussed in order to identify the minimum sensors number requirement. Finally, multiple frequency imaging is performed over a fixed bandwidth to assess the potential improvement of the imaging algorithm when considering broadband information.     

Plastic extension of a shear crack at a circular inclusion

The plastic relaxation of a shear crack situated normal to the interface of a second phase particle of circular cross-section is quantitatively analyzed. The ratio of applied stress to yield stress and the relative displacement of the crack faces at the tips of the crack in the matrix and the interface in the second phase are related to the crack parameters namely the length of the crack, the width of the plastic zone in the matrix and the second phase. The effect of the shear modulus and size of the second phase particle on the behaviour of the plastic zones is determined. A critical value of the relative displacement of the crack faces at the tip of the crack is used as the criterion to determine the tendency to brittle crack extension into the matrix and the second phase.     

Axially symmetric thermal stress of an external circular crack under general thermal conditions

Summary The paper presents a solution for the linear thermoelastic problem of determining axisymmetric stress and displacement fields in an isotropic elastic solid of infinite extent weakened by an external circular crack under general mechanical loadings and general thermal conditions. The mechanical loadings and thermal conditions applied on the crack faces are axisymmetric, being non-symmetric about the crack plane. In similar lines of [7], equations of equilibrium of an elastic solid conducting heat have been solved using Hankel transforms and Abel operators of the first kind. Expressions for stress, displacement, temperature and heat flux functions are obtained in terms of Abel transforms of the first kind of the jumps of stress, displacement, temperature and heat flux at the crack plane. Two types of thermal conditions, that is, general surface temperatures and general heat flux on faces of the crack are considered. In both the cases, closed form solutions have been obtained for the unknown functions solving Abel type of integral equations. Explicit expressions for stresses, displacements, temperature fields, stress intensity factors have been obtained. Two special cases of thermal conditions in which: (i) crack faces are subjected to constant non-symmetric temperatures over a circular ring area, (ii) crack faces are subjected to constant non-symmetric heat flux over a circular ring area, have been considered. In some special cases, results have been compared with those from the literature.     

Edge crack opening in an elastic plane with a wedge-like cut in contact with a punch

The equilibrium of an elastic plane with a wedge-like cut and an internal or edge crack on the symmetry axis was studied in [1] in the case of punch indentation in the lateral faces of the cut at a distance from the cut tip. In [1], the systemof singular integral equations of the problemwas solved numerically by the mechanical quadrature method. In this paper, the generalized Wiener-Hopf method [2] is used to obtain the analytic solution of a similar problem in the case of an edge crack under punch pressure on parts of the cut lateral faces adjacent to the cut tip. Some special cases of this problem were considered earlier without a crack [3, 4] or a punch [5, 6].     

Crack initiation in a stiffened plate

The fracture mechanics problem of crack initiation in a stiffened plate is considered. The crack nucleus is modeled by a prefracture zone with bonds between the crack faces, which is treated as a region of weakened interparticle bonds of the material. The boundary-value problem of the equilibrium of a stiffened plate with a crack nucleus reduces to a nonlinear singular integrodifferential equation with a Cauchy type kernel. The strains in the crack initiation zone are found by solving this equation. The case of the stress state of the plate with a periodic system of prefracture zones is considered. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 111–120, July–August, 2007.     

界面裂纹尖端的动态奇异特性

本文研究了界面裂纹尖端的动态应力场的奇异特性.引入尖端无摩擦接触的界面裂纹模型并采用具有运动边界的控制积分方程.证明了在动态界面裂纹尖端仅存在平方根奇异的应力场.数值结果表明接触区中的正应力确保持为压应力.为表现界面裂纹的动态特性,给出了应力强度因子和裂纹面接触区尺寸的数值结果.     

The singularity behavior of an interface crack under a dynamic load

The singularity behavior of a crack on the interface of two different media under dynamic load is investigated. By introducing a small region in which the crack faces make frictionless contact and making use of a kind of integral equations with moving boundaries, it is proved that there are only square-root singularities near the interface crack tips in case that a dynamic load acts on it. Numerical results show that the normal stress in the contact region remains negative. The results of the stress intensity factor and the length of the crack face contact region are given to illustrate the dynamic behavior of the interface crack.This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.