Two-dimensional analysis of a crack in quasicrystal materials

The two-dimensional problem of a crack in three-dimensional quasicrystals subject to far field loadings is studied. The analysis is based on the generalized Lekhnitskii's formalism. The analytical expressions for both the entire fields and the asymptotic fields near the crack tip are determined. The fracture quantities of quasicrystals, i.e., field intensity factors, energy release rates and so on, is a prerequisite. Numerical results for a Griffith crack under phason loading Mode I and II conditions are poltted. (© 2011 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

一维六方准晶双材料中圆孔边共线界面裂纹的反平面问题

研究了一维六方准晶双材料中圆孔边不对称共线界面裂纹的反平面问题。利用Stroh公式和复变函数方法得到了声子场和相位子场耦合作用下的复势函数,给出了裂纹尖端应力强度因子和能量释放率的解析表达式。通过数值算例,讨论了圆孔半径和裂纹长度对应力强度因子的影响,以及耦合系数、声子场应力和相位子场应力对能量释放率的影响。结果表明:当圆孔半径不变时,应力强度因子随右裂纹长度的增大趋向稳定值。当相位子场应力取一定值时,能量释放率达到最小值,说明特定的相位子场应力可以抑制裂纹的扩展。     

Analysis of arbitrarily shaped planar cracks in two-dimensional hexagonal quasicrystals with thermal effects. Part I: Theoretical solutions

An extended displacement discontinuity (EDD) boundary integral equation method is proposed for analysis of arbitrarily shaped planar cracks in two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal quasicrystals (QCs) with thermal effects. The EDDs include the phonon and phason displacement discontinuities and the temperature discontinuity on the crack surface. Green's functions for unit point EDDs in an infinite three-dimensional medium of 2D hexagonal QC are derived using the Hankel transform method. Based on the Green's functions and the superposition theorem, the EDD boundary integral equations for an arbitrarily shaped planar crack in an infinite 2D hexagonal QC body are established. Using the EDD boundary integral equation method, the asymptotic behavior along the crack front is studied and the classical singular index of 1/2 is obtained at the crack edge. The extended stress intensity factors are expressed in terms of the EDDs across crack surfaces. Finally, the energy release rate is obtained using the definitions of the stress intensity factors.     

Numerical methods for crack loading analyses in quasicrystals

Since the first discovery of quasicrystals in a man made Al-Mn alloy about thirty years ago, people made great effort to investigate this kind of outstanding material. The materials scientists are constantly trying to produce stable quasicrystalline particles or even a complete single quasicrystalline specimen. On the other hand, the fracture behaviour of quasicrystals is started to be investigated because the coupling effect between phonon and phason fields can rebuild the conventional fracture criteria. This work develops a numerical tool for simulating in-plane problems of 1D QC and extends the fracture quantities i.e. stress intensity factors (SIF) and strain energy release rate to phason fields. Finally, numerical results are given to reveal what difference the phason field can bring into conventional fracture quantities. (© 2015 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

一维六方压电准晶中正六边形孔边裂纹的反平面问题

研究了一维六方压电准晶中正六边形孔边裂纹的反平面问题,利用复变函数中的Cauchy积分公式,通过构造保角映射函数,在电非渗透型的边界条件下得到了孔边裂纹尖端的应力分布以及场强度因子的解析解.通过数值算例,讨论了正六边形的边长和裂纹长度以及剪应力对场强度因子的影响.     

Collinear periodic cracks and/or rigid line inclusions ofantiplane sliding mode in one-dimensional hexagonal quasicrystal

For a one-dimensional (1D) hexagonal quasicrystal (QC), there is the periodic (x₁,x₂)-plane of atomic structures with the quasiperiodic direction x₃-axis along which there exists a phason displacement. The macroscopically collinear periodic cracks and/or rigid line inclusions are placed on the periodic (x₁,x₂)-plane for finding out the influence of phason displacement on the related physical quantities. These two models are reduced to the Riemann–Hilbert problem of periodic analytic functions to obtain the closed-form solutions for the antiplane sliding mode. It is found that the phonon and phason stress intensity factors of cracks as well as the phonon and phason stress field intensity factors of rigid line inclusions are not related to the coupling of phonon and phason fields. These mean that there is not the influence of phason displacement on both the phonon stress intensity factor (usual stress intensity factor) of cracks and the phonon stress field intensity factor of rigid line inclusions. However, the energy release rates of periodic cracks and/or rigid line inclusions are obtained and affected not only by the periodicity of cracks and/or rigid line inclusions but also by the phason displacement.     

Cracks in piezoelectric and electroconductive bodies

Singularities are studied of the elastic and electric fields near a tip of a crack on the interface of two piezoelectric bodies. An analog of the Griffith formula is obtained for the increment of the potential energy of deformation due to development of a rectilinear crack. The external electrical forces result in the decrease of the energy release rate which explains an experimentally-known possibility of controlling the fracture process by some additional electric fields.     

一维正方准晶沿准周期方向穿透的抛物线裂纹问题

利用广义复变函数方法研究了一维正方准晶材料中周期平面的抛物线裂纹问题,通过建立广义保角映射,将物理平面的抛物线裂纹外映射到数学平面里的单位圆内.得出了声子场和相位子场的应力分量在像平面下的复表示,并且得到了抛物线裂纹尖端的应力强度因子.并在特殊情况下,所得结果与Griffith裂纹的结果一致.     

一维六方准晶压电材料中幂函数型曲线裂纹的反平面问题

依据一维六方准晶压电材料反平面问题的基本方程,利用复变函数方法,通过引入适当的保角映射,研究了一维六方准晶压电材料中幂函数型曲线裂纹的反平面问题,并利用Cauchy积分理论,得到电不可通和电可通边界条件下的应力场和位移场的复表示以及裂纹尖端场强度因子的解析表达式.     

带裂纹十次对称二维准晶平面弹性的无摩擦接触问题

借助经典平面弹性复变函数方法，研究了单个刚性凸基底压头作用下，带任意形状裂纹十次对称二维准晶半平面弹性的无摩擦接触问题.利用十次对称二维准晶位移、应力的复变函数表达式, 带任意形状裂纹的准晶半平面弹性无摩擦接触问题被转换为可解的解析函数复合边值问题，进而简化成一类可解的Riemann边值问题.通过求解Riemann边值问题，得到了应力函数的封闭解, 并给出了裂纹端点处应力强度因子和压头下方准晶体表面任意点处接触应力的显式表达式.从压头下方接触应力的表达式可以看出, 接触应力在压头边缘和裂纹端点处具有奇异性.当忽略相位子场影响时, 该文所得结论与弹性材料对应结果一致.数值算例分别给出了单个平底刚性压头无摩擦压入带单个垂直裂纹和水平裂纹的十次对称二维准晶下半平面的结果.该文所得结论为准晶材料的应用提供了理论参考.     

Singularities at the tip of a crack on the interface of piezoelectric bodies

Singularities of elastic and electric fields are investigated at the tip of a crack on the interface of two anisotropic piezoelectric media under various boundary conditions on the crack surfaces. The singularity exponents form the spectrum of a certain polynomial pencil, and although explicit formulas are not available, this spectrum is described completely though. The mathematical results apply to problems in fracture mechanics. In this way the Griffith formulas are obtained for increments of energy functionals due to the growth of the crack, and the notion of energy release matrix is introduced. Normalization conditions for bases of singular solutions are proposed to adapt them to energy, stress, and deformation fracture criteria. Connections between these bases are determined, and additional properties of the deformation basis related to the notion of electric surface enthalpy are established. Bibliography: 44 titles. Dedicated to Vsevolod Alekseevich Solonnikov Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 362, 2008, pp. 241–271.     

八次对称二维准晶中的Ⅱ型裂纹

发展了八次对称二维准晶材料的断裂理论.应用Fourier变换与对偶积分方程理论,得到了八次对称二维准晶材料Ⅱ型Griffith裂纹的精确解析解,并由此确定了应力强度因子和应变能释放率,讨论了与相位子场有关结果的物理意义以及晶体与准晶体裂纹问题力学行为的差别,这些为研究此新固体材料的变形和断裂提供了重要的信息.     

Analysis of arbitrarily shaped planar cracks in two-dimensional hexagonal quasicrystals with thermal effects. Part II: Numerical solutions

The extended displacement discontinuity (EDD) boundary element method is developed to analyze an arbitrarily shaped planar crack in two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal quasicrystals (QCs) with thermal effects. The EDDs include the phonon and phason displacement discontinuities and the temperature discontinuity on the crack face. Green's functions for uniformly distributed EDDs over triangular and rectangular elements for 2D hexagonal QCs are derived. Employing the proposed EDD boundary element method, a rectangular crack is analyzed to verify the Green's functions by discretizing the crack with rectangular and triangular elements. Furthermore, the elliptical crack problem for 2D hexagonal QCs is investigated. Normal, tangential, and thermal loads are applied on the crack face, and the numerical results are presented graphically.     

Fundamental elastic field in an infinite plane of two-dimensional piezoelectric quasicrystal subjected to multi-physics loads

By utilizing the extended Stroh formalism, the Green's function of infinite plane is obtained for the problem of two-dimensional decagonal quasicrystals with the piezoelectric effect subjected to multi-physics loads. By numerical computations, the piezoelectric effect of the two-dimensional decagonal quasicrystals is revealed; the changes of the stress and displacement fields with multi-physics loads are discussed. The variation laws of material constants in stress and displacement fields are investigated. The results show that the effect of the phason field on the generalized displacement is larger than that on the generalized stress; and the effects of material parameters are different in diverse field.     

Electrostrictive stresses near crack-like flaws

Slit cracks in purely dielectric material systems do not perturb any applied uniform electric field. Furthermore, when the dielectric is unconstrained and does not support any conducting plates or mechanical loads, there are no additional mechanical stresses generated in the material upon introduction of the crack. This situation applies to both electrostrictive and piezoelectric materials. However, flaws which have finite thickness such as thin elliptical or ellipsoidal voids will cause severe inhomogeneous concentration of the electric field. In turn, this can generate substantial mechanical stress from electrostrictive or piezoelectric sources. The effect of an elliptical through flaw in an infinite isotropic body is considered. It is found that, in the case of thin ellipses, the near flaw tip mechanical stresses approximate the singular stresses near a slit crack with an equivalent stress intensity factor. In that sense, the flaw may be considered as a slit crack and treated in terms of linear elastic fracture mechanics. However, except for impermeable and conducting flaws, the value of the equivalent stress intensity factor depends on the aspect ratio of the flaw. As the aspect ratio of the flaw diminishes, the magnitude of the equivalent stress intensity factor falls and disappears in the limit of a slit crack. The results are used to show that a flaw-like crack in a material with a very high dielectric constant can be treated by fracture mechanics as an impermeable slit crack when the flaw aspect ratio is an order of magnitude greater than the ratio of dielectric permittivities (flaw value divided by the value for the surrounding material).     

平面十次对称准晶中Ⅱ型Griffith裂纹的求解

应用应力函数法,求解了二维十次对称准晶中的Ⅱ型Griffith裂纹问题。特点是把二维准晶的弹性力学问题分解成一个平面应变问题与一个反平面问题的叠加,通过引入应力函数,把平面应变问题的十八个弹性力学基本方程简化成一个八阶偏微分方程,并且求出了其在Ⅱ型Griffith裂纹情况的混合边值问题的解,所有的应力分量和位移分量都用初等函数表示出来,并且由此得出了准晶中Ⅱ型Griffith裂纹问题的应力强度因子和能量释放率。     

两压电介质之间的界面夹杂问题

应用Stroh理论,研究了两压电介质之间的刚性介电线夹杂问题。首先该问题被化为Hilbert问题,然后分别给出了压电介质内的复势函数解、夹杂内的电场解和夹杂尖端场的解析表达式。结果表明,在夹杂尖端附近,所有的场变量均呈现奇异性和振荡性,且其强度取决于介质的材料常数和无限场远处的应变。此外,结果还表明,当从夹杂内部趋近夹杂尖端时,夹杂内的电场也呈现奇异性和振荡性。     

线性硬化材料中稳恒扩展裂纹尖端场的粘塑性解

采用弹粘塑性力学模型,对线性硬化材料中平面应变扩展裂纹尖端场进行了渐近分析．假设人工粘性系数与等效塑性应变率的幂次成反比,通过量级匹配表明应力和应变均具有幂奇异性,奇异性指数由粘性系数中等效塑性应变率的幂指数唯一确定．通过数值计算讨论了Ⅱ型动态扩展裂纹尖端场的分区构造随各材料参数的变化规律．结果表明裂尖场构造由硬化系数所控制而与粘性系数基本无关．弱硬化材料的二次塑性区可以忽略,而较强硬化材料的二次塑性区和二次弹性区对裂尖场均有重要影响．当裂纹扩展速度趋于零时,动态解趋于相应的准静态解;当硬化系数为零时便退化为HR(Hui-Riedel)解．     

An interface crack moving between magnetoelectroelastic and functionally graded elastic layers

A constant crack moving along the interface of magnetoelectroelastic and functionally graded elastic layers under anti-plane shear and in-plane electric and magnetic loading is investigated by the integral transform method. Fourier transforms are applied to reduce the mixed boundary value problem of the crack to dual integral equations, which are expressed in terms of Fredholm integral equations of the second kind. The singular stress, electric displacement and magnetic induction near the crack tip are obtained asymptotically and the corresponding field intensity factors are defined. Numerical results show that the stress intensity factors are influenced by the crack moving velocity, the material properties, the functionally graded parameter and the geometric size ratios. The propagation of the moving crack may bring about crack kinking, depending on the crack moving velocity and the material properties across the interface.     

一维六方准晶中带双裂纹的椭圆孔口问题的解析解

利用复变函数方法,通过构造保角映射,研究了一维六方准晶中带双裂纹的椭圆孔口的反平面剪切问题,给出了Ⅲ型裂纹问题的应力强度因子,在极限情形下,不仅可以还原为已有的结果,而且求得一维六方准晶中带双裂纹的圆形孔口问题、十字裂纹问题在裂纹尖端的应力强度因子．