Two Analytical Solutions for Dynamic Crack Bifurcation in Antiplane Strain

1982 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 366-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Burgers ◽  
J. P. Dempsey

A semi-infinite crack is subjected to constant magnitude, dynamic antiplane loading at time t = 0. At the same instant the crack is assumed to bifurcate and propagate normal to its original plane or to propagate without branching. For constant crack-tip velocities the stresses and particle velocity are functions of r/t and θ only, which allows Chaplygin’s transformaton and conformal mapping to be used to obtain two Riemann-Hilbert problems which can be solved analytically. Expressions for the elastodynamic Mode III stress-intensity factors are then computed as functions of the crack-tip velocity and some conclusions concerning crack initiation are drawn.

2011 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 192-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Al Emran Ismail ◽  
Ahmad Kamal Ariffin ◽  
Shahrum Abdullah ◽  
Mariyam Jameelah Ghazali ◽  
Ruslizam Daud

This study presents a numerical investigation on the stress intensity factors (SIF), K of surface cracks in round bars that were obtained under pure torsion loadings or mode III. ANSYS finite element analysis (FEA) was used to determine the SIFs along the crack front of surface cracks embedded in the solid circular bars. 20-node isoparametric singular elements were used around the crack tip by shifting the mid-side node ¼-position close to a crack tip. Different crack aspect ratio, a/b were used ranging between 0.0 to 1.2 and relative crack depth, a/D were ranged between 0.1 to 0.6. Mode I SIF, KI obtained under bending moment was used to validate the proposed model and it was assumed this proposed model validated for analyzing mode III problems. It was found that, the mode II SIF, FII and mode III SIF, FIII were dependent on the crack geometries and the sites of crack growth were also dependent on a/b and a/D.


1985 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
J. P. Dempsey ◽  
E. B. Smith

The surface of an elastic half space is subjected to sudden antiplane mechanical disturbances. Crack initiation and subsequent crack instability are examined via two idealized problems; the first is concerned with instantaneous crack bifurcation and the second with instantaneous skew crack propagation. In either problem, crack propagation occurs at a constant subsonic velocity under an angle κπ with the normal to the surface. For the externally applied disturbances that are considered here, and for contstant crack-tip velocities, the particle velocity and τθz are functions of r/t and θ only, which allows Chaplygin’s transformation and conformal mapping to be used. The problems can then be solved using analytic function theory. For various values of the angle of crack propagation, the dependence of the elastodynamic stress intensity factors on the crack propagation velocity is investigated. For certain specific geometries, fully analytical solutions are derived to provide check cases.


In a recent paper (referred to as I) we obtained inter alia , the stress and displacement fields at the tips of a transverse crack in an isotropic medium sandwiched between orthotropic media under in-plane loading (mode II). The crack was lying wholly within the isotropic medium so that the singularity at the crack tip was of the usual inverse square root type. In this paper, the analysis is extended to the case when the tip of the crack terminates on the transversely isotropic-orthotropic bimaterial interface and the nature of the singularity at the crack tip depends on the elastic properties of both media. The analysis is performed for both inplane (mode II) and out-of-plane (mode III) shear loading. General solutions are obtained for the crack tip stress singularities and corresponding stress intensity factors, together with the influence of the elastic properties and geometry of the media upon the stress field. These solutions are specialized to the limiting case when the crack terminates on the interface between dissimilar isotropic media in order to demonstrate consistency with published results. As in I, the solutions are used to investigate the influence of ply angle θ upon the stress singularities in [± θ /90°] s fibre-reinforced composite laminates. For this analysis, the outer angle-ply sublaminates are treated macroscopically as homogeneous orthotropic media whose elastic constants are obtained using the classical lamination approximation. Calculations are also carried out to study the variation of stress intensity factors with the ply angle and outer sublaminate thickness.


A dynamic crack tip shielding model has been developed to describe the brittle-ductile transition (BDT) of precracked crystals in constant strain-rate tests. Dislocations are emitted from a discrete number of sources at or near the crack tip. At the BDT the dislocations are emitted and move sufficiently rapidly to shield the most vulnerable parts of the crack, furthest away from the sources, such that the local stress intensity factor remains below K Ic for values of the applied stress intensity factor K above K Ic . Computer simulations of the dynamics of dislocation generation from the crack tip sources, assuming mode III loading, suggest that a sharp transition as observed in silicon is predicted only if generation starts at K ≡ K 0 ≈ K Ic , but then continues at K ≡ K N ≪ K Ic . Dislocation etch pit studies reported by Samuels & Roberts ( Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 421, 1─23 (1989)) (hereafter called I) confirm that generation begins at K 0 ≈ K Ic . It is suggested that K 0 corresponds to the value of K at which a crack tip source is nucleated by movement of an existing dislocation in the crystal to the crack tip. The model accounts quantitatively for the strain-rate dependence of the transition temperature T c reported in I, and predicts a dependence of T c on dislocation density, in qualitative agreement with (unpublished) experiments. Calcluations of the strees field around the crack tip of a semicircular precrack, suggest that the ends of the half loops emitted by crack tip sources undergo multiple cross slip to follow the crack profile. The predicted dislocation configurations agree with etch pit observations reported in I.


1990 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chien-Ching Ma

The dynamic stress intensity factors of an initially stationary semi-infinite crack in an unbounded linear elastic solid which kinks at some time tf after the arrival of a stress wave is obtained as a function of kinking crack tip velocity v, kinking angle δ, incident stress wave angle α, time t, and the delay time tf. A perturbation method, using the kinking angle δ as the perturbation parameter, is used. The method relies on solving simple problems which can be used with linear superposition to solve the problem of a kinked crack. The solutions can be compared with numerical results and other approximate results for the case of tf = 0 and give excellent agreement for a large range of kinking angles. The elastodynamic stress intensity factors of the kinking crack tip are used to compute the corresponding fluxes of energy into the propagating crack-tip, and these results are discussed in terms of an assumed fracture criterion.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
pp. 3581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin-Rae Cho

This paper presents the numerical prediction of stress intensity factors (SIFs) of 2-D inhomogeneous functionally graded materials (FGMs) by an enriched Petrov-Galerkin natural element method (PG-NEM). The overall trial displacement field was approximated in terms of Laplace interpolation functions, and the crack tip one was enhanced by the crack-tip singular displacement field. The overall stress and strain distributions, which were obtained by PG-NEM, were smoothened and improved by the stress recovery. The modified interaction integral M ˜ ( 1 , 2 ) was employed to evaluate the stress intensity factors of FGMs with spatially varying elastic moduli. The proposed method was validated through the representative numerical examples and the effectiveness was justified by comparing the numerical results with the reference solutions.


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