Determination of V-notch SIFs in multi-material anisotropic wedges by digital correlation experiments

In this paper, theoretical formulations based on the Stroh’s complex function approach were used to find the displacement field and H-integral of a sharp V-notch formed from several anisotropic materials. Displacements from the image-correlation experiments are then substituted into the least-squares formulation to find V-notch stress intensity factors (SIFs) in multi-material anisotropic wedges. Validations using the H-integral indicate that the experimental SIFs evaluated from the proposed method of acceptable accuracy. The major advantage is that the proposed method only requires displacements inside the specimen, and displacements near the notch tip, specimen boundaries, or notch surfaces are not necessary.     

Behaviors of a single crack in multiple bolted joints

This paper examines the pin load ratios and the stress intensity factors (SIFs) of a single crack in the multiple bolted joints by using finite element analyses. Cubic-spline contact elements and rigid links were used to model the contact surface between the bolt and the rigid pin. The least-squares method was used to determine the SIFs. The finite element results indicate that the cracked hole can still sustain the major part of the original loading at the uncracked condition. The first hole sustains the largest pin load and mode-I SIF, which are reduced little for crack propagation. This critical condition cannot be reduced by the arrangement of more pins in the plate. In this paper, two simple formulae were also investigated to fit the load ratios and SIFs of the multiple bolted-joints problems.     

Calculation of Notch H-Integrals Using Image Correlation Experiments

This study evaluated notch H-integrals as well as stress intensity factors (SIFs) using image-correlation experiments for anisotropic materials. First, complex displacement and stress functions are deduced into an H-integral equation. Displacements and stresses from image-correlation experiments are then substituted into the H-integral equation to evaluate the notch SIFs. Experimental results compared with finite element analyses show that the SIFs evaluated using the current method are acceptably accurate.     

拉伸载荷作用下单边缺陷-边裂纹应力强度因子研究

利用杂交位移不连续法研究拉伸载荷作用下矩形板中单边缺陷-边裂纹(半圆孔裂纹和半方孔裂纹)问题,给出了这三种平面弹性裂纹问题的应力强度因子的详细数值解。通过半圆孔裂纹问题和半方孔裂纹问题与单边裂纹问题的应力强度因子的比较,发现半圆孔和半方孔对单边裂纹有屏蔽影响。此外,本文的研究结果表明,杂交位移不连续法用于分析平面弹性有限体中复杂裂纹问题的应力强度因子简单且又准确。     

CTS试样I/II混合型断裂特性数值计算研究

采用CTS试样研究I/II混合型断裂特性计算裂纹前缘应力强度因子时可采用解析公式,一旦裂纹发生扩展,解析公式便不再适用。文中采用有限元法研究紧凑拉伸剪切（CTS）试样在I/II平面混合型加载下的裂纹扩展行为。采用ANSYS建立CTS试样I/II混合型测试系统有限元模型,为模拟真实受力状态,在CTS试样-销-扇型夹具以及扇型夹具-销-U型夹具之间分别建立接触对进行接触力学分析。通过与解析公式结果进行对比验证了该数值方法的可靠性。采用最大环向应力准则（MTS）,模拟了CTS试样不同加载角度下的裂纹扩展路径,获得了裂纹扩展路径中应力强度因子随裂纹长度的变化曲线,解释了裂纹扩展路径不与外载荷方向垂直的原因。结合文中计算结果,在CTS试样I/II混合型裂纹扩展速率实验测得裂纹长度与寿命的关系曲线a-N的基础上,便可得到材料I/II型混合型裂纹扩展速率曲线。     

Investigation of mixed-mode stress intensity factors for nonhomogeneous materials using an interaction integral method

An interaction (energy) integral is derived for the computation of mixed-mode stress intensity factors (SIFs) in nonhomogeneous materials with continuous or discontinuous properties. This method is based on a conservation integral that relies on two admissible mechanical states (actual and auxiliary fields). In general, the interaction energy contour integral is converted into an equivalent domain integral in numerical computations. It can be seen from the equivalent domain integral, the integrand does not involve any derivatives of material properties. Moreover, the formulation can be proved valid even when the integral domain contains material interfaces. Therefore, it is not necessary to limit the material properties to be continuous for the present method. Due to these advantages the application range of the interaction integral method can be greatly enlarged. The numerical implementation of the derived expression is combined with the extended finite element method (XFEM). Using this method, the influences of material properties on the mixed-mode SIFs are investigated for four types of material properties selected in this work. Numerical results show that the mechanical properties and their first-order derivatives can affect mode I and II SIFs greatly, while the higher-order derivatives affect the SIFs very slightly.     

AN INVESTIGATION ON STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS OF INTERFACE CRACK FOR THREE TYPES OF SPECIMENS

The problems of finite bimaterial plates, bearing uniform tension, compact tension and three point bending, are studied by using the eigenfunction expansion variation method (EEVM). And interfacial stress intensity factors (SIFs) are determined. The SIFs varying with shear modulus μ and Poisson's ratios ν of both materials are discussed.     

A numerical analysis of cracks emanating from an elliptical hole in a 2-D elasticity plate

This paper is concerned with the stress intensity factors (SIFs) of cracks emanating from an elliptical hole in an infinite or a finite plate under biaxial loads by using a boundary element method, which consists of the non-singular displacement discontinuity element presented by Crouch and Starfield and the crack-tip displacement discontinuity elements due to the author. In the boundary element implementation the left or the right crack-tip element is placed locally at the corresponding left or right crack tip on top of the constant displacement discontinuity elements that cover the entire crack surface and the other boundaries. A few numerical examples are included to show that the present approach is very efficient and accurate for the calculating the SIFs of crack problems in an infinite or a finite plate. The present numerical results of cracks emanating from an elliptical hole under biaxial loads can reveal the effect of the elliptical aspect ratio and the transverse load on the SIFs.     

海洋平台K型管节点的疲劳裂纹扩展分析 II:数值分析

对于已含初始裂纹平台管节点的寿命预测很大程度上依靠应力强度因子的精确值,而复杂载荷条件下的节点应力强度因子的计算尚无参数方程直接确定。本文提出了一种含表面裂纹的K节点的有限元网格产生方法,即把整个K节点划分为几个子区域,每个子区域的网格具有不同类型的单元和不同的密度。这种方法在控制网格密度,尤其是控制沿着裂纹边缘单元的边长比方面有其独特的优越性,当所有子区域的网格自动产生后,容易得到整个结构的有限元模型。同时用J积分和位移外推插值法分别计算了一个K型节点沿着裂纹前缘的应力强度因子值,发现:试验得到的应力强度因子值和提出的模型计算结果非常吻合,证明了所提有限元模型的准确性。     

梯度材料中矩形裂纹的对偶边界元方法分析

采用对偶边界元方法分析了梯度材料中的矩形裂纹. 该方法基于层状材料基本解,以非裂纹边界的位移和面力以及裂纹面的间断位移作为未知量. 位移边界积分方程的源点配置在非裂纹边界上,面力边界积分方程的源点配置在裂纹面上. 发展了边界积分方程中不同类型奇异积分的数值方法. 借助层状材料基本解,采用分层方法逼近梯度材料夹层沿厚度方向力学参数的变化. 与均匀介质中矩形裂纹的数值解对比,建议方法可以获得高精度的计算结果. 最后,分析了梯度材料中均匀张应力作用下矩形裂纹的应力强度因子,讨论了梯度材料非均匀参数、夹层厚度和裂纹与夹层之间相对位置对应力强度因子的影响.      

Controlling Stress Intensity Factors During a Fatigue Crack Propagation Using Digital Image Correlation and a Load Shedding Procedure

Digital Image Correlation is used for controlling load shedding fatigue crack propagation. A specific algorithm is used to perform Stress Intensity Factors (SIFs) and crack length estimation in real time. Crack length measurements are validated by comparison with potential drop technique. SIFs results are compared with more common techniques using standard analytical formula considering confined plasticity at the crack tip. The proposed non-contact method is shown to be a powerful tool to control crack propagation.     

焦散线法求解裂纹应力强度因子的两种改进方法

为提高焦散线法求解应力强度因子的精度，提出了两种基于多点非线性最小二乘法的改进方法。文中推导了控制方程，编制了程序，阐述了实验技术。作为应用实例，对三种典型裂纹试件作了测试与处理。结果表明，用本文方法处理的结果比文［１］经典法的结果有很大改进。作者还对图像处理用于焦散线法应力强度因子的提取作了初步探讨［５     

Stress state of a transversely isotropic magnetoelectroelastic body with a plane crack under antisymmetric loads

The static equilibrium of a transversely isotropic magnetoelectroelastic body with a plane crack of arbitrary shape in the isotropy plane under antisymmetric mechanical loading is studied. The relationships between the stress intensity factors (SIFs) for an infinite magnetoelectroelastic body and the SIFs for a purely elastic body with the same crack and under the same antisymmetric loading are established. This enables the SIFs for a magnetoelectroelastic body to be found directly from the analogous problem of elasticity. As an example of using this result, the SIFs for penny-shaped, elliptic, and parabolic cracks in a magnetoelectroelastic body under antisymmetric mechanical loading are found Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 44, No. 10, pp. 37–51, October 2008.     

Application of scaled boundary finite element method in static and dynamic fracture problems

The scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM) is a recently developed numerical method combining advantages of both finite element methods (FEM) and boundary element methods (BEM) and with its own special features as well. One of the most prominent advantages is its capability of calculating stress intensity factors (SIFs) directly from the stress solutions whose singularities at crack tips are analytically represented. This advantage is taken in this study to model static and dynamic fracture problems. For static problems, a remeshing algorithm as simple as used in the BEM is developed while retaining the generality and flexibility of the FEM. Fully-automatic modelling of the mixed-mode crack propagation is then realised by combining the remeshing algorithm with a propagation criterion. For dynamic fracture problems, a newly developed series-increasing solution to the SBFEM governing equations in the frequency domain is applied to calculate dynamic SIFs. Three plane problems are modelled. The numerical results show that the SBFEM can accurately predict static and dynamic SIFs, cracking paths and load-displacement curves, using only a fraction of degrees of freedom generally needed by the traditional finite element methods.The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (50579081) and the Australian Research Council (DP0452681)The English text was polished by Keren Wang.     

半无限板边缘裂纹的权函数解法与评价

权函数法是求解裂纹体在任意受载条件下的应力强度因子和裂纹面位移等断裂力学参量的高效、高精度方法,与有限元等数值方法相比,在求解效率和可靠性方面均具有明显优势.针对半无限板边缘裂纹,系统分析了在国际断裂力学界较有代表性的Wu-Carlsson、Glinka-Shen和Fett-Munz三种解析形式的权函数法,进而以在远端均匀加载下的半无限板边缘裂纹面位移Wigglesworth解析解导得的权函数及其对应的格林函数解(即裂纹面受一对单位集中力作用下的应力强度因子)为基准,沿整个裂纹长度对3种权函数的精度逐点进行比较,并与文献中基于其他方法求得的权函数做了广泛对比,包括Bueckner,Hartranft-Sih以及Wigglesworth利用不同解析方法推导出的高精度的权函数.研究了3种参考载荷(均布/正反向线性分布应力、集中力)及其不同组合,以及裂纹嘴位移的几何条件对权函数精度的影响.结果表明,基于一种参考载荷下的裂纹面张开位移比基于两种参考载荷下的应力强度因子所得到的权函数具有更高的精度,而且后一种方法的精度明显受到所选参考载荷组合的影响;裂纹面位移在裂纹嘴处三阶导数等于零的条件对基于一个参考解的权函数精度的改进效果较小.最后给出了利用各种权函数方法计算得到的4种载荷条件下的应力强度因子,并对结果进行了比较.     

Closed form solution of stress intensity factors for cracks emanating from surface semi-spherical cavity in finite body with energy release rate method

In this paper, a new semi-analytical and semi-engineering method of the closed form solution of stress intensity factors (SIFs) of cracks emanating from a surface semi-spherical cavity in a finite body is derived using the energy release rate theory. A mode of crack opening displacements of a normal slice is established, and the normal slice relevant functions are introduced. The proposed method is both effective and accurate for the problem of three-dimensional cracks emanating from a surface cavity. A series of useful results of SIFs are obtained.     

On the influence of electric boundary conditions on dynamic SIFs in piezoelectric materials

Dynamic stress intensity factors (SIFs) for a straight crack in a piezoelectric material under time-harmonic L- and SH-wave loading are determined for different electric boundary conditions. Impermeable, permeable and limited permeable cracks are compared. The problem is formulated and numerically solved using a nonhypersingular traction-based boundary integral equation method where the fundamental solution is obtained by Radon transform. A parametric study in the frequency domain shows the dependence of the SIFs on the choice of the electrical boundary conditions at the crack faces.     

Application of hypersingular integral equation method to three-dimensional crack in electromagnetothermoelastic multiphase composites

A three-dimensional crack problem in electromagnetothermoelastic multiphase composites (EMTE-MCs) under extended loads is investigated in this paper. Using Green’s functions, the extended general displacement solutions are obtained by the boundary element method. This crack problem is reduced to solving a set of hypersingular integral equations coupled with boundary integral equations, in which the unknown functions are the extended displacement discontinuities. Then, the behavior of the extended displacement discontinuities around the crack front terminating at the interface is analyzed by the main-part analysis method of hypersingular integral equations. Analytical solutions for the extended singular stresses, the extended stress intensity factors (SIFs) and the extended energy release rate near the crack front in EMTE-MCs are provided. Also, a numerical method of the hypersingular integral equations for a rectangular crack subjected to extended loads is put forward with the extended displacement discontinuities approximated by the product of basic density functions and polynomials. In addition, distributions of extended SIFs varying with the shape of the crack are presented. The results show that the present method accurately yields smooth variations of extended SIFs along the crack front.     

Computations of modes I and II stress intensity factors of sharp notched plates under in-plane shear and bending loading by the fractal-like finite element method

The fractal-like finite element method (FFEM) is used to compute the stress intensity factors (SIFs) for different configurations of cracked/notched plates subject to in-plane shear and bending loading conditions. In the FFEM, the large number of unknown variables in the singular region around a notch tip is reduced to a small set of generalised co-ordinates by performing a fractal transformation using global interpolation functions. The use of exact analytical solutions of the displacement field around a notch tip as the global interpolation functions reduces the computational cost significantly and neither post-processing technique to extract SIFs nor special singular elements to model the singular region are required. The results of numerical examples of various configurations of cracked/notched plates are presented and validated via published data. Also, new results for cracked/notched plate problems are presented. These results demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the FFEM to compute the SIFs for notch problems under in-plane shear and bending loading conditions.     

虚拟裂纹闭合法在结构断裂分析中的应用

基于三维虚拟裂纹技术(3DVCCT),利用ABAQUS用户单元子程序(UEL)编写裂纹界面单元,使3DVCCT集成于ABAQUS软件中,直接计算出裂纹的断裂参数.采用此方法对连杆杆身表面裂纹进行研究,得到了连杆裂纹的应力强度因子的分布规律.